SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1839, 13 June 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.)

Wellington, Friday. The limes, in an article accounting for the late wrecks about Wellington Heads, says they might have been obviated if a proper tug service existed, and adds that

"There is not an important port in Australasia besides this at which the early days of its shipping trade the Government did not either solely or partially provide a tug service."—The Opera Company have been playing to remarkably good houses. For the last two nights

the weather was very inclement, but the house was good on both occasions.— Owing to the dirty weather of the last couple of days, the s.s. 'Albion,' which left Lyttelton on Wednesday, ouly arrived this 'morning. The ' Wellington' attempted to go out yesterday, but had to put back, and several small steamers due yesterday have not arrived.

New Plymouth, Friday. Owing to Captain King's funeral yesterday the public offices were closed as a mark of respect.—Mr W. M. Burton has

been appointed English immigration agent, and goes home by the San Francisco mail.

Hokitiiu, Friday. The lease of the Brainier coal mine at the Grey has changed hands, the Greymouth Company having bought Hughes and McCarthy's full interest iu the lease, with plant and rolling stock; also their prospecting license at Mount liochfort, in the Buller district.

Dunedin, Friday,

The origin of the fire is still undiscovered. The correct ;list of insurances is: -Beid's, £500 in the Norwich Ukion, £1,000 in the South British, New Zealand, £500, and Standard, £500; Brown's Buildings, £500 in the South British.— Mr W. H, Cotter and Captain Boyd left yesterday for the North a3 a deputation ■from tho new Colonial Bank, to cooperate with the various local committees formed over the colony..