TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 422, 2 January 1875, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(From tlie Dvnedin Dailies. ) "Wellington, December 30. , A great many unemployed or partially employed men are hanging about the town, disliking to go to the country. An advertismeut for a storeman^for one of our merchants was answered by ove*r 200 applicants. A few days ago about the same number applied for the situation of driving a bakers cart. ' December 31st. The Committee engaged in 'arranging for a ball to the Governor and Lady Nbrmanby hare fixed the date for Thursday next. The ship Jung Frau has armed from London. She brings five thoroughbred horses, for Napier, andr2lß pure-bred sheep. Four rams, valued at 200 guineas each, were lost on the passage. Grahams-town, Dec. 30. Thirty diggers with swags have left for Ohinemuri, with the intention of waiting on the spot until the opening is proclaimed. Auckland, Dec. 30. The whaler James Arnold has arrived from the Bay of Islands, with 250 barrels of sperm oil, the produce' of a seven mouths' cruise. She reports boarding a water logged ship on the 6th December last, in lat. 25 N., long. 30 *W. " The ship was 998, tons register, laden with yellow pine timber. Owing to the fact that the stern was all smashed away, it was impossible to decipher her name. The crew had evidently abandoned fche vessel some timo before, as all the boats were missing. The vessel was apparently an English one. Hervey, steward of the Rosario, paid the fine, £100, inflicted on him for smuggling. The Cyphrenes arrived at midnight She left Sydney on the : 23rd, and proceeds to San Francisco at 11 o'clock to-day. Several Auckland firms, ancouraged by the annexation of Fiji, are establishing branch j houses at Levuka. An advertisement for 100 men for the Kaipara railway met with- only a partial response, i At a conference of Good Templars for the ] formatibn of a Grand Lodge, forty-seven representatibes were present. It was announced there were forty lodges in the Aorth Island with 3000 members. It was resolved to recommend as the boundaries of the district the whole of the North Island. New offices were elected. Lttteltox, December 3lst. Arrived. — Crusader,- with immigrants, all > well.