LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1859, 21 July 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(anglo-a-ostralian press telegraph AGENCY.]

Westport, J uly 20. Mrs Carruthers, wife cf the Town Clerk, committed suicide on Saturday evening by throwing herself into the Buller river off Nelson street groin. She had been drinking heavily for some time previously. The body has not yet been found. Wellington, July 20. The Agent-General by telegram, dated July 3, announces to the Premier that during June the following ships with immigrants sailed for the Colony : — The Oxford, with 430 souls for Auckland ; Charleville (Carlisle) and Douglas, with 370 for Wellington ; the Parsee, Tweed, and Meansland, with 1370 for Otago ; the Callicott, supposed to be the Calliope, for Canterbury ; Merchant and Guttenburg, with 1440 for Canterbury. The numbers make the total emigrants shipped for New Zealand, between the Ist of January and the end of June, 21,000. The railway plant shipped during June was 2000 tons of rails and fastenings, 30 weighing-machines, 25 sets waggon irons, 32 [tons bridgework, 122 cylinders, 1500 coils wire, 624 cases telegraphic material. Christchurch, July 20. Two thousand five hundred immigrants arrived in this Province during the past three months. The Government have provided barracks, and the Road Boards have erected cottages in various parts of the Province. The Road Boards are employing large numbers of immigrants, and arrangements are just concluded between the Government aud the City Council, for employing large numbers in forming outlying streets and belts of Christchurch. Another meeting is called for to-morrow ' to protest against the erection of a college in the domain, with the view of influencing the Upper House respecting the Bill. The survey on the Patterson was held on Saturday. She was condemned, Captain Kennedy, from Auckland, acted on behalf of the New Zealand Insurance Company, and Captain Webster for the Messrs Brogden. The Eliza Mary has been got into the Waitara river.