TELEGRAMS.
(From the Dunedin Dailies.) , Wjjlltngtox, January 3nd. The Caledonian sports yesterday passed off successfully. Nearly 4000 were present. The Champion Mile Uace was run in smin. 15sec Putting the Stone (221 b.) — distance put, 27ff. 9ir?. The Hammer (191 b,) was thrown 64ft. 10 in. Not a single police case occurred This morning the captains of all the steamers in port were served with a formal notice from the Seaman's Strike Committee intimating that the seamen would not work longer except at an advance of £1 per month, making the wages £7 per month, and working only eight hours instead of twelve hours per day. A compromise was first offered by the owners, which was £7 per month and 12 hours a day. The men rejected this, and insisted on £8 a month if the work was twelve hours a day, to which the owners acceded, In consequence of the' strike and the high price of coal, the cost of a passage and freight by the steamers has been raised 20 per cent. January 3rd. The Wellington sailed for the Manukau to-day. She was detained till the last moment through the men refusing, on the very eve of her departure, to sign articles, without a clause being inscribed enabling them to leave at any time with 24 hours' notice. The wages of firemen have been raised to £12 per month. The ship Celeeno arrived to-day from GraTesend. QTliere were no immigrants on board, but a valuable lofc of sheep, 12 of which died out of 17 placed on board at Gravesend. She brings three cabin passengers. January sth. At the Supreme Court to-day there were six cases. Hiß Honor Judge Johnston in his charge to the jury referred to the alarming increase of indecent assaults upon children. He attached great blame to parents, who neglected to watch over the chastity of their children. He further stated that he had reason to believe that the mischief was much more widespread than was generally supposed. He suggested to the Grand Jury that they should take action towards the alteration and i Ja| rovemenfc o" the law upon the matter. Nelson, January 2nd. The steamer Murray, from the West Ooast, in comming up the harbour yesterday ran into the ketch Mary and sunk her. t*he thenran into thi [Government wharf, toa depth of 12 feet The engines were reversed, but the current was so strong that it was impossible to stop her. The ketch and cargo were worth £500. • Auckland, January sth. Dr. Smith, of Kawau, has been picked up after clinging to the bottom of a boat in the open sea for five hours. The boat was capsized in a squall as the Doctor was returning from visiting a patient. Hokitika, January 5 th. The s.s. Gothenburgh ai*rivcd at 10 a.m. Melbourne, December 30th. A shocking boat accident happened at Geelong, on Boxing Day. A boat containing some 20 persons, principally women and children, was capsized during a squall, and ten of the occupants were drowned. The boat was overcrowded and unpeaworthy. Alexander Todd, teller of the Union Bank, absconded with £1200, but was arrested at the Heads on board the Claud Hamilton, in company with a young woman named Armstrong, who had in her possession £500 and a draft for £300 on an Auckland bank. London, December 27th. Discount, 4£. Money is in moderate demand. Bank exchanges ai*e favourable. Wool stocks are almost exhausted, but the market is flat. The corn market is steady. Madbid, December 24th. Thirty thousand Carlists surrounded General Moriones, who was compelled with* his army, 12,000 in nunber, to embark at San Sebastian. He disembarked at Santona.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 319, 7 January 1874, Page 3
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