SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian T elegraph Agency )
Auckland, Wednesday. Tho wha'er James Arnold has arrived at the Bty of Islands, witli 25J iiarreU of sperm oil, the produce of a Beven months' cruise. She leports boaiding a waier-logged s;up on the 6th Doe mber, iv lat. 25 N., long. 3d VV. Tne hhip was 5)U6 tons reg., Jaden witu yellow piue timber. Owing to the fact that the stern wad all smas.ied away, it was impossiole to decipher liev name, tho crew had evidently abandoned her some time before, as all the boats were nrisaiug. Tlie vessel was apparently of English build. It is reported that the A.S.N. Go. will carry on the San Francisco service six uuiitlta longer. Tlie (J/pureues sailed at lJ o'cloc to day. Andrews has gone aa mai agent. Arabella Gjddard was a passenger.
Wellington, Wednesday. There we're over two hundred applications (his morning iv renpous to ah advmitn-meut by Turnbull and Co., tor a A saort time back there were about tne same uumoor of applications for the job of driving a baker'a horse and cart.
G iristcliurcli, Wednesday. Another branch railway, thirty mil s long from tho ltct'ce-cour&t station, hair Clmstchurch, to Southbndge will bo opened torgmeral traffic m Feuriury Tne Acchniiitisaiioij Socieiy has decided to remove protection from huu&e sparrows which have become a, nuibance in the province, and to issue licenses to liali for trout in the river Avon.
byduey, December 23. Sullivan i-emains in gaol. Tue Australian Parliament will be prorogued by CuminisMou on Tuesday. Daily telegr.ipuic communication has been established between Singapore anil Adelaide by means of ,a floating station. Tue raceiiurse Prutos has been sold to Mr Clibbora for 26U guineas.
Melbourne, December 23. Commercial. — There is little business doing. Private telegrams irom Calcutta reports te.irs Ijeing entertained of the jute crop being short. A London telegram reports a . ise of 20s in the price of hops. California oats sold at 4* B£-l to 5a I^l. Wiu-at very iirux at 5s 9d to 5» 9|d.
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Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 410, 31 December 1874, Page 2
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336SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency) Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 410, 31 December 1874, Page 2
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