TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 433, 17 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FIIOM I'IIIi I'KKSS ACI'.NCY.) * WELLINGTON. Septemlier 17. The Agent-General lias advised the Government of tiie sailing of t'ie ship Rikaia with 21)3 emigrants for Canlcrbuvy. AUCKLAND. September 15. Arrived—Bell : Brandon, from Island, and Active, from Tonga and Samoa.

Ti,e latter livings very little additional news. Tin', fighrin'_r is nit :rely stop]tc< 1, but great damage lias bet n done In tlii! cnonamit and breadfruit trees at I'avai. It is estimated tliat .Tj.OOO tre(-s have been wantonly d( stroyi d. She brings the following whaling news :—The Alaska was at Yavau on August ll'li. with two humphacks trying out. The Sphndid, <i Dun(diti, Lad taken four humpbacks. T,ie James Arnold, at Ilrpeka, llapai, on August 22ud, had 300 barrels of humpback, and 11 large quantity of .sperm oils. They e:Uight thri o whales while the acdve was'there. The Magellan Cloud, of Auckland, at Tongatabn. August, 27th, had captured five fish - 300 barrels. On the 2Glh she made fast to a cow and calf, hut the second mate, in lancing, accidentally cut the line, and the fish escaped. The Isabella, of Wellington, I ad been unfortunate, through defective equipment. Her boats had fastened on to fourteen whales, but all escaped except two. At one. time the crew ran short of provisions, and had not money to buy any, but got a fish, when friends and money arrived in plenty. The Belle Brandon, from the Sandwich Islands, brings cotton, copra, and fungus. The Coronet, from Tahiti, brings a valuable cargo of cotton, lime-juice, and copra. Captain Ross reports that the iron s 1 ip Ada Tredale, which left Ai'drnssau with coals for San Francisco, on .Time 14th, 1576, was abandoned in flames, the crew suffering great hardships fur twenly- ■ six days. The ship was towed into Passittee Harbour, Tihiti, on June 201 h of this year, still burning, after about eight months' tossing about, during which t/me she had drifted GOO miles. Sl.e was picked up close to the land by the French frigate Seigne. Mr. Binnev reports : —Adelaide flour, L 23; Melbourne do., L 22 ; Southern do., LIS 10s ; sharps, L 3 10s;.. bran, L 5 10s ; potatoes, L 4 ; bacon. 7d to 3d; onions. 2d ; butter, 7d ; oatmeal, L2l ; pearl barley, L 24. Mr; l-Jnckland reports:—Sheep, scarce, advanced. 2d per lb; fat shrcp, 01 per lb; lambs, advanced 2s Od each ; fat cattle, 343 6d ; inferior, do., 30s; dairy cows, L 6 to L 7 15.