LATE TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1143, 20 January 1874, Page 4

LATE TELEGRAMS.

NELSON. January 15. The Tarimift brings supplementary English mail conveyed to Melbourne by P. and O. steamer Ellara. Dates to November fourteenth. News unimportant and mainly anticipated by. pievious mail, WELLINGTON. January 15. The Horticultural Show to day was the lies I ever seen here. The duties collected to the fourteenth instant were £5386. Tho total amount collected in ali of January, 1873, was only £6151. The total amount collected last year was £88,654 against £04,(>82 for 1872. The Provincial Council tins afternoon authorised the grant of seventy acres of Te Aro fore shore to the corporation of the city. - OHRISTCHURCH. January 15. Advices per cablegram yesterday reached the New Zealand Shipping Company that the demand for emigrant ■passages has largely increased in consequence of adoption of free nomination system, and that the agent of the Company in London, owing to scarcity •of ships, has arranged with the Albion .Shipping Company, and Shaw, Saville and Co., to convey some of the .wjiignints. The New Zealand Company despatched during December hist eight ships, including s.s. Mongol, which is expected alone to carry GOO. The Provincial Council last night decided to increase the Superintendent's salary from £BOO to £IOOO. The Government has announced an intention of obtaining a thoroughly ■competent railway manager, and that a salary of £BOO or £IOOO a year may have to be given. PORT CHALMERS. January 15. At the Heads—Dunfillan, ship, from London. It is blowing a gale, and she cannot get iu to-night. Sailed—The Luna, for Wellington. The Governor's yacht has arrived from the Bluff. The Mikado has not yet got away. AUCKLAND. January 15. The Governor Blackall has sailed with the Californian mails and eight passengers. Mr Moriarty, the Sydney Government engineer, has reported in favor of the construction of graving dock accommodation for the San Erancisco steamers, west of Queen street wharf. ALEXANDRA. January 15. The Native meeting at Kuiti has -concluded. A monster meeting of all tribes will be held in March next. Europeans ■will be invited to attend. Tapihana was here again to-day.