TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3243, 28 June 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

"Wellington, June 27th,

Mr George Martin, formerly of Martin's Hotel, Stafford street, Dunedin, recently deceased, has left £100 to the Wellington Hospital.

Private letters announce the death, in London, suddenly, of Mr Horace Mayhew.

Mr Brogden'3 tender for the first section of the Hutt railway is below the Parliamentary estimate.

The Agent-General's despatches, received to-day, announce the sailing of the Halcione, for Wellington, with 50 of Mr Brogden's immigrants, and 50 Scandinavian, and 140 British Government immigra ,ts. The ship Friedburg was to leave Hamburg on the 18th May with a full complement of immigrants. The ship Hodwig was to leave Christiania on an early date for Napier, with 325 immigrants, being part of the 1200 sent for by the Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, for a special settlement at the Seventy Mile Bush. The ship Celestial Queen had left for Auckland with 90 British immigrants. Advices have been received of the shipment of 600 tons of railway iron for Mr Brogden, as well as turn-tables and cranes for the Clutha line. Arrangements have been made with the Messrs Brogden for the passages of their labourers, the firm giving promissory notes at the rafeo of £10 per head. This sum has been fixed upon as the firm will-have the exclusive use of the immigrants' services for some time. Dr Featherßton asserts that the England's passengers were carefully examined and inspected before the ship's departure from London.

_„.,. AucKfcAiro, .June 27th. „-. Another case or small-pox has broken out in the Hospital.

The Beach battery is in full work at last, and has crushed 50 tons of stone from the Green Harp claim, which yielded 1750 ounces of amalgam. There are still 250 tons of stone and all the specimens to be crushed. The Cure dividend is 2s 6d. The share market is dull, but prices are firm.

Hokitxka, June 27th.

The body of a gardener named John Wilson was washed up on the sea beach. Ai; the inquest, the jury returned a verdict of "accidentally drowned."

1 Lyttelton, June 27th. The ketch Struggle? has been wrecked in Le Bon Bay. No lives are lost. A south-easterly gale is blowing here.

Invercakgill, June 27th. At the sitting of the Supreme Court today, Connor, convicted of stealing cash and cheques* was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. In the case of Bishop, charged with larceny, the jury returned a verdict of " not guilty." Christie, against whom there were two charges of stealing money and horses, was found guilty on both, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment on the first, and two years' imprisonment on the second.

The Grand Jury threw out the bill against M'lntosh, charged with larceny as a bailee. They returned true bills against Ingpen, on three charges brought against him as Registrar of births, deaths, and marriages ; but returned no true bill against him as Registrar of the Supreme Court.