TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 464, 24 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

. o ([.\;oo '■>« '■ -- A'.KNCV.) fo Ciii»iO 1 wti U aOH. < Scalier 24. Total rraoinfs nf y.'strr-.hiy'xfJte, L 448 ; i Ileal r-. L 77 ; iiissUiii-..' total aiiii'Unt nuscii f .i- ti.e F.iiinii** JR.-1-f F in 1, L24OD. 1 $, AUCkL \SU. Ctober 23. T'ie Citv <)f N w York, with the <>ntward San Francis-jo niii I, puss-d the Bay i>f Isiamls at half-past 3 rliis af>eril"Oii. The siip Mary Shi pherd, once a regu'ar trader hutwivn Luidou and this port-, has been wrecked near Manilhi. Tiie sbip sailed' from Mauritius on A\ r'A 19th, for Manilla, in ballast, ai.d struck on a ivi-f of sunken island 0 , south of Manilla Bay, about the middle of June, and went to pi ces immediately after she struck. There was no time to get the boats out. Captain Caroline, the cook, a man nanu cl White, and. two apprentices named Tiiunnan and Smith, failed to reach the land, and were drowned. Tiie of the oflic.rs and crew were saved. A cablegram nceived in town ly Messrs. Brown, Campbell, and Co. says the Lusitauia, belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which 1, ft Melbourne on the loth September, entered the Sii'.z Canal on the 17th October. The Loan and Meicantilj Agency reports iinclt r d ite London, October 12, as follows :—i h i wool market is u icharg ul ; to date 81X0) bales have arrived. The tallow mrrket is quiet; mutton, 40s 61 ; hi ef, ods 6J. T..e wheat market is also quiet, owing to fie foreign a-riva's being heavy ; Adelaide, 68s ; New Zealand, 495. Leather is in spt dilative demand, and is brisk ; best sidi s, 10-iel. . o DUNEDIN. October 23. The officers of the Public Works Department have received instructions from Wellington to proceeel at once wit'i tiie survey of the line .of railway to the interior via Strath-Taieri. The work at Deborah Bay tunnel is now all but finished, and during the present week it is probable that the pngine will run right t'nough from Dunedin to Blueskin, and that in a short time trains for the conveyance of goofs and.,passei.= gera will run to the same place, « GHEYMOUTH. October 23. The locomotive that went into the river through the collapse of the harbour works, was recovered last night. During the night, about two chains of the stone facing of the harbour works disappeared in the river, carrying with it the large crane, which is now hing there. A special meeting of the Borough Council was held to-day, at which it was unanimously , I i\s.jl v eel lo memorialise the G .veri.nient to stop making works of sand, and to sub- | stitute stone. ' '

TIMARU. October 24. The Indian Famine Rein f Committee have collected over L3OO since last Friday. The L3OO is to be forwarded to Christchurcli at once.