Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 343, 1 April 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

(From our own Correspondent.) TivsrsDis, March 31. The Lutterworth, which left on Thursday for Newcastle, arrived at the Heads again this morning. She encountered heavy weather, and has put back for moi - e ballast. The Schooner Marion Rennic has arrived at Auckland from Levuka, and brings intelligence that the steamer Macgregor had been floated. H.M.S. Pearl tried for several days to get her off, but all the warps broke, and she was compelled to desist, and left for Levuka. 200 tons of sugar and a large quantity of coal was thrown overboard, and thesteamer floated off on the 7th inst by herself. She was taken to safe anchorage in Galoa Bay, where she will be temporarily repaired and then taken to Sydney and docked. She had a hole twelve feet by three feet in one of her forward compartments, which is full of water. The proposed annexation of Fiji has been negatived by the King and the leading chiefs assembled at Bau. April 1, 9.20 a.m. Three patients died at Quarantine Island yesterday — two girls, aged respectively 16 and 20 years, and an infant 10 months-. Bronchitis was the cause of death.

The barque Hose M ftrrired « Port Chalmers from Calcutta yesterday. She is the first vessel direct from East India to thil port. The March atatistics of Dunedin are — Births, 90 ; marriages, 37 ; deaths, 38. Mr. Kedwood has sold his mare SpxitMil to to Mr. Joseph Reany. Yesterday was the last day for receiving claims to bo placed on electoral r*olL Fire hundred and thirty claims have been lodged during the three months just ended.