LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1691, 5 January 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[':ANGLO-AtSTKALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH ' ! '•' ! '•' AGENCY.] ' ' Wellington', Jaa. §. .' jThe s.s. Wellington sailed for the Manulfaei: tO'day^ but was detained by the mien i-'efu^ing {jt the last moment to sign articles ' without a clause .being : inserted, enabling them to leave at any time with fourteen hours'' notice ; wages of firemen were raised to Ll2. ~ The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to pratique torday. The Celceno arrived 120 days out frbm Gravesend j no immigrants. She.; brings a valuable lot of sheep.' T wefye djie,4 ouj; of 4 1 ?. She hks 3 cabin passengers, . Dunedin ; Jan. 3. The following further telegram was received with reference to the Surat :— BAiCLtTHA, 10.30 a.m. The Surat struck on a submerged rock' ten miles north of the Dog Light. ". Her! speed : carried her over, and the captainput to sea. The crew and passengers, including women, pumgect all night. Dis- . tress' signals were tried to a passing steamer, but were hauled down by the 6aptain ?r who threatpned fo sljopjb any.one; who signalled, and women frqm waving ishawls, ma,ta wasdisarnied' by the seamen as'he Was about to scuttle' tlie boat. the. captain b"eaphecl~ the ship and landed sixty passengers, j the ; vessel" drifted, aga'iiiy'she was' igaohed at the mouth of Catli^'s^Riyei;;,,

The' passengers have lost all their luggage, Ac;' It was found in the morning that the ship was sinking in the sand.. She is likely to break up. The chief cargo is railway iron, and plant for the Kaikoura Woollen Factory... -■ The' Caledonian 1 Sports were continued to-day. for ; the ibenefitlpf 'the Benevolent Asylum. The Smdheifh Mercury, a new weekly paper, edited by Vincent Pyke, makes itf first appearance to-day „;,;■ ; * r i Auckland, Jan. 3. i The .Chief Justice gave an important decision in the case of M'Arthur Shera' v. MfKellarj Collector ' of Customs, inj which Prendergast appeared as counsel for; the defendant. The action was brpught"tb recover money exacted ! after passing of the new tariff on goods for which eight, entries were previously passed. Judge Arney decided that the importation of dutiable: goods is_ completed by passing all the appointed entries rather than by the time the ship arrived. Entry for home con-i sumption was riot passed until the entry, was perfected and signed by the Collector, j Judgment for defendant with costs. !