TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLII, Issue 4303, 26 November 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

£Pbb Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph ; Agency.) Auckland, Nov, 25. The-Govwmor’s yacht, Blanche, was offered «t aoctiod to-day, and withdrawn at £2IOO. The Ferndale has sailed for London. The value of her cargo - is £20,411, including 17,378 lbs of wool. ' Taurahga, Nov.2s... : Mr Kelly received a unanimous vote of confidence at Opotiki. He denounced provin“Cialjsm. He Will address his Tauranga. conjjtituents to-morrow nigiit.,, , Napibb, Not. 25. The enquiry into the alleged cruelty on the part of., the captain of the ship Bebfagton to an immigrant girl is concluded , but Abe result is not made public yet. A civil uotibo for damoges will probably be brought oy the girl. -The captain is also said to contemplate legal proceedings on his side. The evidence is said to be contradictory. The girl states that she refused to give up a pocketbook containing memoranda of the incidents of the voyage, and concealed it about her person, and that she was seized, tied up, and stripped, when the book was taken from her.

• Four of the sailors of the Bebington have been sent to gaol for a month for refusing to work. They pleaded guilty, and complained of bad treatment and insufficient food, but the statement was not proved. Wellington, Nor. 25. Tenders hare been called for filling-in the new baths on Thorndon. A space 250 feet fang by 100 feet wide, is intended to be enclosed, and' if funds permit, a separate portion for ladies will be erected. Mr William Befton Moorhouse publishes an address to the citizens, as a candidate for the Mayoralty. > Commenting upon the Statistics for 1873 just issued, the New Zealand Times points out that the Government has paid passages wholly or in part of 8754 immigrants without colonial experience, 1509 of whom were children, during 1873; but that, for the same period, 4761 persons (a large proportion being experienced colonists) left the colony. It attributeathis result partly to bod loud and mining laws.

The estimated population of the colony, on Deo. 31,1673, was 295,946. Hokitika, Nov. 36.

Mr John White, M.H.8., addressed his Constituents, and received % rote of oonfi-