(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency)

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 395, 24 November 1874, Page 2

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency)

t Auckland, Monday. i he bsuque William Gifford has arrived from J>»nedin. She reports seeing forty sperm whales 1:1 one day along the coast. Hie Marquis of Normanby is expected to arrive ,\>n Monday, and will proceed to Wellington in the Luna on Thursday. Dining the interval he will be sworn in j also entertained at a Ball. It is his intention to hold a levee during his stay. Everything progressing favorably at the quarantine station.

tpi tr tut „ Wellington, Monday. Ihe Hon Mr Reynolds during his trip in the North has leased the old Auckland Melanasian Mission Station buildings and grounds for carrying out the provisions of the Naval Training School Act He has purchased the Southern Cross, schooner • she w to be rigged so that the boys may learn to v-ork square rigged vessels. He has appointed Lieut G. Breton, R.N., manager of the Koheniar.una school, but the preliminary organisation of the school 13 to be left to Commander Tilley, R.N well known in connection with the Melanasian Mission. Jioatewain instructor will also be appointed, toget her with a schoolmaster and a gardener. A start will be made witli twenty boys from the industrial school who have not been convicted for crime.

any Christchurch, Monday. ALijor Palmer has almost completed arrangements at Bumham Observatory and sub-stations for the tansit of Venus. There are five substations, viz, Gr.ihamston, Auckland, Wellington, Rockyside Dimedin, and Nasoby. In Otago there is a project on foot for floating .a company with £10,000 capital foi the erection of a new theatre. Allen of the Opera Company is taking an active part in the matter.

Port Chalmers, Monday. rlio Hhip Auckland arrived on Satin day with 414 immigrants. Three deaths and five births occurred on the passi-ge. She is said to be the acme of cleanliness. Messrs Hougkton's new steamer tlie Express has arrived from Melbourne.