TELEGRAMS.
[Nbw Zealand F&Esa Assooiatiok Tiltcbaxs.] DtrwiDiN, Monday. A Riverton telegram itates that the schooner Nanny was driren ashore yesterday st New River Head*. She had entered out for Stewart's Island, in ballast. No lives were lost. She was uninsured. The Colonial Secretary has telegraphed to Mr. Macandrew that the number of immigrants ordered to arrive in Otago during the current year was 4062, exclusive of nominated immigrants. The Agent" General has been instructed to offer free passages, and pay, where he thinks necessary, the expenses of immigrants to the Port of departure. Mr. Joel Darling Johnston waited on the Superintendent to-day in reference to the Government bonus for the manufacture of bottles. He said he was prepared to go into the matter. The Superintendent' said the Government would not allow the bonus authorised to drop. Free passages had been offered to workmen and their families. Mr. Beaton was forming a company in England, and the Superintend tendent recommended Mr. Johnston to oonuult him.. Butterfield, charged with bigamy, has been discharged, the Sydney polioe not having sent thenecessary documents. Tbe sailing of the Claud Hamilton is postponed' till to-morrow, The nunbar of immifrwU into&MfA by thr
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Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1630, 6 May 1873, Page 3
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196TELEGRAMS. Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1630, 6 May 1873, Page 3
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