SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1792, 18 April 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

[1 ' —. .<* (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Tress Agency .K. e *~. v Wellington, Friday, t The Independent understands the Government has been in communication r with the Agent-General and the home s authorities on the subject of obtaining the ' Bosario'as a training ship for seamen. 3 It says there is good "reason' to believe • I one will be obtained from ,the Imperial II Government. In the meantime a com- 1 mencement is abput to bejmade at Auckland, Mr McLean having, while 'in Australia, arranged with the trustees for ! the use of the mission buildings and : schooner 'Southern Cross'; for. twelve > : months. Mr Seed goes up from Taui ranga to take possession, and make a ; commencement as soon as circumstances. • : will permit. ■.■■-.-.■■ New PLTMoura, Friday. f The agricultural statistics for'Taranakr ■; have been published, The number of : holdings is 657. The amount of land , broken up is 3,138 acres, namely, in '.'' wheat, 945 acres; oats, 82j barley,' 29 ; . grasses, 41,069; potatoes, 477; other 1 crops, 215. The total number of acres under crop is 43,182.—The schooner t ' Maid of Otago,' which was on the Spit I i at the Waitara, has been repaired and i left for Dunedin. TiMAurj, Friday. | Thursday's races -Hurdle Itace: Alice ;. Grey, 1; Ivanhoe, 2; Almi, 3. Maiden ! Plate: Theodore, 1; Prioress, 2. Timaru ) Cup: Tambourini, 1; Terapleton, 2. p Timaru District Handicap: Exile, 1; 1 Madras, 2; Theodore, 3. i Dunedin, Friday, Snow is already on the hills round • Dunedin.—Twenty-two more immigrants I are to be removed from Quarantine Island [ to-morrow.—Two new railway stations are being erected: one at Caversham and 3 one at Green Island.—The total number [ of immigrants arrived in Dunedin during the quarter ending March was 2,220-net 1 increase'l,Bß2. ~;:•;