TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 392, 19 September 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Dunedin Dailies. ) Wellington, September 16th. The English mails ex Macgregor will be brought from Manukau here in the Luna, which left last midnight. The southern portion will be forwarded per Phoebe. His Excellency left in his yacht Blanche for a cruise this afternoon. It is understood she will touch at Picton and Nelson. September 17th. The Agent-General, under date 3rd September, reports the following numbers of immigrants despatched in August : — For Auckland — The Hydaspes and Assaye, with 760. For Nelson -The Mall with 330. For Wellington — The Soukar, with 415. Eor Taranaki — The Houra — with 380. For Lyttelton —The Pleiades, with 220. For Otago— The Auckland, with 360. MrO'Shea reports : Flour, £12 15s to £13 sa ; bran 1b 3d to Is 6d • -wheat (onickem), 4s 6d to 5b 6d ; milling oats, 5s to 5s 3d ; hams and bacon, lOJd to Is ; cheese, 8d to B_-; butter Is 9d to 2s. Auckland September 16th. Mr. Saunders reports sales of Caledonian, at £9. Buyers of Bank of New Zealand, at £17 12s 6d ; National Bank, £3 8s ; South British Insurance, £2 10a ; National Insurance £1 8s ; Thames, £2 ; City of London, £1 3s 6d. Sellers of Alburnia, at £1 15s. September 17th. The Gem has arrived from Warrnambool with 100 tons 'of potatoes. They were ali sold during (-.he day at an {average of £9 per ton ; bags extra* The Good Templars have fermed a benefit Society in order to participate in the new proposals of the Government with respect to life assurance. Nelson, September 16th. A fatal accident is reported from the French Pass. On September Ist two Maoris and a white woman named Eliza Smith attempted to cross from Durville Island to Elmslie's in a dingy. The boat was sucked under by a whirlpool, and the Maoris drowned. The woman Smith was kept afloat by a paddle, and stripped aud then swam for the shore. Her cries were heard by a man named Elmslie, who, with her brother and a man called Webber, put out and .rescued her just as Bhe -was sinking.