TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 324, 24 January 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Dunedin Dailies. )

WELMNCHOff, January 21st. To-day a locomotive was tried for the first time on the Hutt railway, and with satisfactory results, The horses on the road alongside the line did not seem much frightened. Ballasting is proceeding rapidly, and the line is expected to be open for regular traffic in March. A number of the Salisbury's crew have been sentenced to 12 weeks' imprisonment, for broaching the cargo. The others have been sentenced to four weeks', for disobeying orders. The ship Douglas haa been hauled into the stream, and sails on Friday with the largest and most valuable cargo ever loaded in Wei' lington, consisting of 5800 bales, 45 packI ages wool, 30 bales skins, 691 bales flax, 121 casks tallow, 2000 Backs wheat, 1453 sacks flour, g6O cases preserved meats, and 20 tons of bones— the whole cargo being valued at £12Q,Q00. She also takes 24 passengers. Auckland, January 21st, The divorce case, Carpenter v. Carpenter, occupied the attention of the Court all day. The petitioner is a member of the Provincial Council. The ground of the application is adultery. The defence is that the offence was condoned, and also that the petitioner had been guilty of cruelty, Mr. Alexander Saunders reports : — Buyers : National Insurance Co., £1 os, 6d.; National Bank of New Zealand, £3 65.; Bank of New Zealand, £17 j Caledonians, £10 155.j Thames G. M, Co., £3 2s, 6d.; Otago, Bs, Sellers ; Sons of Freedom, £13 10s,; National Insurance Co., £1 Is. 6d, Napier, January 21st, A gas oompany has been formed here with a capital of £150,000, in shares of £10 each. Bluff, January 21st. The Albion, with the Suez mail on board, arrived at the Bluff at 9.40 this morning. She left Melbourne at 2.30 p,m, on the 16th, and brings 43 saloon and 30 steerage passengers, together with 2.5.0 tons cargo for all ports,

Passenger List : Mr-., Mrs., and Miss Ire-, land, Messrs. James, Roberts, Lees, Park, Pillans, Somner, Malcolm, Hart, Peterson, Beecher, Gray, Donaldson, Kemp, Mesdames Sievwright and child, Park, Siddons, Pillans, Misses Pillians, Mrs. Thewenotc, and 20 in the steerege ; also 130 tons cargo. The Albion will probably be detained till 8 p.m. His Honor the Superintendent is likely to be a ! passenger,