TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4254, 7 November 1874, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BURNING OF TWO AMERICAN SHIPS. LOSS OF LIFE. [Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Friday. The Coronet, from Tahiti, brings the intelligence that two American ships, one named the Mogul, and the name of the other unknown, were burned to the water's edge in the Pacific. The two' calamities present very extraordinary features. Both vessels belonged to the same American firm. Both loaded coals at Liverpool for San Francisco. Both were burned within a day or two of each other, and the crew of one, and some of the crew of the other, found shelter at Marquesas Islands. All hands of the Mogul were saved, after being nearly seventeen days in open boats. The captain and mate in one of the boats, with some of the crew of the other vessel, were lost; but the second mate brought the other boat and the remainder of the crew safely to Marquesas, after twenty-two days of privations and difficulties, having been all that time without instruments or charts. A small piece of cardboard, on which the course was marked'off, was the only means of reckoning used. The vessels, when burnt, were nearly 2000-miles from land. The first crew arrived at Tahiti on the same day as the Coronet_ The last one arrived seven days afterwards. The ship Hydaspes has arrived in seventyseven days from the date >of discharging the Channel Pilot. She brings 400 immigrants. There were eleven deaths from scarlatina. The ship has been placed in quarantine. The last case of scarlatina is reported as having occurred on 23rd October. One death from brain fever occurred to-day. No cases aboard now. Grahamstown, Friday. The Church of England bazaar was opened yesterday. Over £IOO was realised. Napier, Friday. There was a fatal accident last evening at the earthwork at Battery Poiut. A mass of earth fell and killed one man on the spot, and another died this morning. An inquest will be held this afternoon. Masterton, Friday. A branch of the Bank of New Zealand was opened here to-day. A public meeting is advertised to be held on Monday, for the purpose of making arrangements for the opening of the Euamahunga bridge. *, - Charleston, Friday. At a public meeting last night a prospecting association was formed, and it was decided that a bonus of £3OO be given to any one person or *party who should find payable ground in the country lying between the water-sheds of the Totara and Four-mile rivers, capable of giving remunerative employment to one hundred men for at least six months. Nelson, Friday. Madame Arabella Goddard's second concert last night was a great success. The Provincial Hall was filled. Bouquets fell in showers, and the audience ro3e and cheered her as she left the stage. Christchurch, Friday. There are 629 entries in the various classes for the agricultural show here next week. DuNEDIN, Friday. The nominations for the Dunedin Cup, 1875, are :—Emerson's Guy Fawkes, Cotton's Castaway, Goodman's Kathleen, Capt. Hutchison's Mabel, Earl of Lynne, and Spritsail; Monaghan's Medica, Pritchard's Pertobe, White's Atlas, Walker's Yatterina, Coombe's Flying Dutchman and Eight Bower, Webb's Lily, by Malton dam Spray ; Webb's gelding, by Malton dam Ada ; Delamaine's. Hercules, Templeton, and The Belle ; O'Brien's Tambourini, Corban's Sea Bird, Taggard's Boomerang, Dod3on's Merryman, Gourlay's Bobby Burns, Notworthy's Traitor and Sonnambula ; Redwood's Wainui, Rangi, Ngaro, and Tui; Pollock's Bothwell and Captain Cook. The minera at the Chain Hills, who were receiving ten shillings per day, have struck work, requiring' twelve shillings. In the contempt ca3e, re Maccassey, His Honor Judge Chapman made the rule absolute. -The Judge discharged the application re in- " **Hriolability of telegrams. At Riverton yesterday, Locke, the landlord / of the Star and Garter Hotel, was kicked on the head while trying to stop a runaway horse. The skull was fractured, and there is no jhope of his recovery. A son of Mr. Grant, of Waikara, was found dead thi3 morning under suspicious circumstances. An inquest will be held to-morrow. [from a correspondent.] Tacranga, Friday. The annual meeting of the members of th e Tauranga Mechanic's Institute was a crowded one. It was resolved by nearly four to one thai the reading-room should in future be open on Sunday afternoon. The proposition met with much factious but ineffectual opposition.