GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 189, 1 August 1900, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

' 9 [PUB PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] i Auckland, July 31. i The French barque Grand Duchess 1 D'Olga, bound from San Francisco to Dunkirk, with grain, put into Tahiti j on the lObh insfr., with her foremast broken in a gale. The City of Papeete, a trading schooner, went ashore when leaving Papeete for San Francisco, She came off next day after losing her false keel and jettisoning her cargo, During the month of July, the Oohnial Ammunition Company manufactured in Auckland and delivered to the Government 200,000 rounds of '303 ammunition, which demonstrates that there is no chance of tho supply failing so long as the New Zealand manufactory exists. A Tonga & respondent 6'fi.fcs tli&t the from Sydney to TofigvTtahu, while sailing to the quarantine station, struck upon a reef in the harbour. The damage sustained is not yet known, as the barque is still in quarantine with all her cargo aboard, but she is making little water. Patba, July 31. The steamer Huia was successfully launched to-day. She is now at the wharf, Wellington, July 31. The San Francisco mail agent reports that the reported outbreak of . plague in San Francisco turned out to be like the former report—falae alarm, ■ very similar to what happened in i Auckland, except that the Board of I Health in San Francisco has been ac- 1 cused of corrupt motives in the action i they took. "We bring," he says, " a i bill of health, tho President of the s United States having intervened and £ raised the quarantine established by i j the health authorities. I entertain no / doubt whatever that no genuine case of c bubonic plague had made its appearance 'J in San Francisco up to the date of our t departure." \ The rainfall for July totalled 8 08 inches, most of which fell on the first r two days of the month. The record for July of last year was 6'44 inches,