WELLINGTON.
„,, Monday. Iho Ciovcrnnj'.ui Las rcu.i',cd a Iclcjrain ftoin ,
the Agent-General dated July 3. lie announces that dm ing Juno the following ships sailed with immigrants for this colony. Oxford, 430 souls for Auckland ; Carlfelo and Douglass, 870, for Wellington ; Paidee and Christian McAusland, 1370, lor Otago ; Calli jpe, Csmtcrbury Merchant, and Gutenberg, 1440, for Canterbury. Tliese numbers make a total of immigrants, shipped for New Zealand between January Ist and end of June, 24,100. The railway plant shipped during June was 2000 tons of rails and fa&tenings, 20 weighing machines, 2b sets of waggon irons, 32 tons of bridge work, 122 cylinders, 1,500 coila wire, 624 cases telegraph material. The Government has purchased from the natives, a largo block of .land containing over 20,000 acres of bush, on the edge of the Rotorua lake. Several other large blocks are likely to be negotiated for shortly. The wife of Carruthers, the Town Clerk, committed suicide by plunging into the Buller. She had been drinking for some days.
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Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 341, 21 July 1874, Page 2
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167WELLINGTON. Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 341, 21 July 1874, Page 2
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