TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4025, 12 January 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

. Wellington, January 11th. Captain Fairchild has received instructions to endeavour to remove the rock at the entrance to Tauranga, upon whiehthe steamer pretty Jane^damaged herself recently. He has taken ailarge quantity of dynamite for the purpose in the Luna this time; H.M. Roßario has arrived. The erection of the new Salt-water Baths near the railway station has been completed. , A Gazette Extraordinary, published on Saturday night, contains a notice of His Excellency's assumption of Government. The Commission and names of the Executive Council appointed are also published. Amongst the passengers going home by the Howrah, are the Hon. Mr and Mrs Sewell, Mr Justice Richmond and family, Dr Hector and Mrs Hector and family. The ship Adamant clears to morrow with a full cargo, mostly wool, valued at £60,000.

r™. ™ , Auckland, January 11th. Ine Blanche proceeds to Howe's Group the scene of the recent massacre of the crew of the James Birnie, schooner. Mr Saunders reports : Buyers of National Bank, £3 7s; London, £1 8s; Bismarck, 9s ; Cure, 4s ; sellers of Bank of New ZeaL a o i' £I£ 7s 6d,; Fiji ' £3 2s ' Soufch B»toh, £2 93 j City of London, £2 10s.

Grahamstown, January 11th. The news of the burning of the Cospatrick caused a profound sensation and grief, many families here having relatives on "board coming out under the nominated immigrants system. One resident here has lost mother, brother, and sisters, and has now scarcely a single blood relative left. Napeer, January 11th. The Customs authorities have seized a •' refrigerator " for a local brewery, for fear it might be converted into a " still." Picton, January 11th. Amongst the Carnatic's passengers are a number for the Feilding Block. The voyage was made in 99 days. The immigrants are being landed. Christchurch, January 11th. A girl named Isabella Thompson, ased 13, was fouttd dead, with her throat cut in a paddock at Lyttelton at 6 a.m. on Sunday The appearance of the body and clothes leads to the inference that the girl had been outraged. A man named Alfred Osborne recently released from gaol, where he had been undergoing a sentence of twelve months for vagrancy, has been arrested on suspicion. A man named W. L. Grant, a chemist employed by Gould and Co., was found dead m his bed yesterday morning. It is supposed that he died from an overdose of morphia, which he was in the habit of taking to induce sleep. Two men have been arrested, in connection with the case of the murdered girL The yacht Ripple was capsized by a sudoen squall at Akaroa on Saturday. Mr Sale, her owner, and Mr C. A. Nalder, solicitor, of Lyttelton, were drowned. Two others swam ashore.