ENGLISH TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1829, 2 June 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS

Via Hokitika. -» (Per Anglo-Australian Press 'Telegraph Agency.)

[Reutee's Special Telegrams.]

Paris, May 23,

After failure to effect numerous combinations, the new Ministry were constituted as follows: -General De.Lissey, Vice-President of Cjuneil and Minister of' War; Hue de Odes, Minister of Foreign Affiirs; M, Fourlon, Minister of Interior, and Financ v; M. Griovat, • Minister of Commerce ; M.. Cuniont, Minister of Public Instruction ; tf. Tailliaud, Minister of Justice; Admiral Moni(taigrie, Minister'of Marine. Prince Hohenlohe, ambassador from Germany, presented his credentials to President McVTahon, and amicable ansarances exchanged. =

Owing to the failure of the Gourland form.of Ministry, McMahon completed the list as already' telegraphed. The new Cabinet is essentially of a business character; They will prepare constitutional laws, leaving to the Assembly the transmission of presidential powers, ' London, May 23. ' The Chilian authorities hare released Captain Hyde, who was imprisoned for his vessel capsizing with Chilian passengers aboard. The question of indemnity pending. . CousiKßcui. '-Money easy. A reduction of discount is expected. Bank reserve stronger. Foreign stocks depressed. Another wool failure at Bradford is announced. Completion ef wool sales; much animation. Prices show an upward tendency. The death of Roger Thoiry, formerly Judge of'the Supreme Court, New South Wales, is announced. Arrive i: ' Asia,'' Sobraon,' and' Lord Warden/from Melbourne; ' Parramitta,' from Sydney.'

•SPECIAL CAB [jSGBIM. London, May 23 The New Zealand loan of £672,000 has been taken at 93.

• SUNDAY NIGHT'S STORM: : We have little to add respecting the damage caused by the.storm of Sundiy night, beyond what was stated in our yesterday's paper, but the daylight of yesterday morning enabled those interested, to see,better what had been done in the darkness, and the storm, and to estimate the damige. : Happily, no lives have beeii lost, and the loss of property has not been so great as might have.been expected 1 The cutter ' Tarn belonging to Ciptain Souter, drifted from hermooringsnenrtheGrahamstown Wharf, and went rapidly up to Shortland, where she stuck on the mud bank. She has not received much damage, but his lost an anchor.. 'Ihe cutter 'George,' also belonging to Captain Souter, drifted from the north side of the Graliamstovrn Wharf, went clean through tint unfortunate structure, and only cam?. to a halt when she got amongst the mangroves on the peninsula bat<veen the Thames and Knuwaeranga. The ' George is much injured, and we fear that she will plough the salt seas no more. Her top phnking is gone, and her rigging is hopelessly damaged'. ' She is loaded with timber/ from the Thames mills. The punt ' Skate' also started from GrahamUown when the storm was at its highest, and on the trip up to the harbour of refuge at the mangroves went foul of a cutter and carried away iier bowsprit. There was a lad on bovdthe' "•ka'e,* who was knocked into the water while trying to fix a bit of canvas so,as to guide the vessel. Luckily, he got hold of some of the tackling, but he could,inoti get;ou board.,as the vessel was driving through the water at the rate at which a steamer would go. When she came to the mangroves, the ' Skate' at first made as if she would go up the Thames, but taking another rhouglit she went right into tbe bushes, and across a grass plot,-and stuok fast with her bowsprit over the Kauwaerang i stream. The boy got on board when she lost way by getting on the mill. It will be an easy taste to drag her over the bank into the Kihwaeranga; The ' Skate' has just discharged a load of coal at Shortland. Ttie barque ' Lady Kmma,' which is now at Gibbons's mill at the Kirikiri, was driven from her. moorings even there by the force of the wind, and up on to the mud.' The schooner ' Lake Arij' was driven high up on the mud bank between Shortland and Grahamstown, but has not been much damaged. B <Ueen the Gas Works:and;Holdship's mill is a large quantity!' of; square timber which drifted from Holdship's premises, and pissed through an opeuing made for it in flold^ip's'wharf. That tliHH'ruoture ' stood at all is a mitter of surprise 1 Air .Read has suffered considerable damage, as a large quantity of planking was floated from his place and strewed on the beach, a gojd : deal of it Iving broken and destroyed., As for Ourtu's wharf, it it so much dimaged that, wa are afraii it will not be thought worth while to repair it at alh There are four clean breaches through it, and considerable damage has been done at the toll-house end. The Grahamstown and' iararu railway has been washed , away in several places, aud as the sleepers and foundation will have to be reinstated, several days must elajse before there can be any traifi) on the line. ' There is one large breauh in the Tararu : wharf,; aud we.; believe -that the whole structure is shifted'and weakened. 'The Imperial drown Hotel has also been affected by the storm,, tho waves having washed away a piece of sea-wall in front, and a good part of the soil arpund the blocks on which the building stands..