SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3570, 24 March 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

—s>— ■ (feom our own cohkesfondent). Auckland, Tuesday. A tremendous number of schnapper, mullet, kawhni and other fish are lying de'nd up the Wain-era river. .The settlers cannot account for it. A report from Dr Haines, at the quarantine station, received by the immigration . officer to-day, gives particulars of the death of two immigrants by the Earl. Granville. Margaret McMeamy, widow aged 46, died of sunstroke on Saturday, and Bridget Kairns, aged 23, single, died of low fever, yesterday. j-lonora Mulloy has also been suffering from low fever, and is in a precarious condition. The other immigrants at Motuihi are doing well.

Napper and Lamburn annonuco a weekly journal called the Commercial Gazette, which will be principally de. voted to commercial interests. Tho new journal will take no side in politics. At the Presbyterian Assembly the Rev. D. Bruce announced that Mrs Hfenry Somerville had promised a donation of £1000 towards the Church, part to bo devoted to tho Assembly Scholarship Fund.

At tho Orakei Parliament a resolution was unanimously passed condemning the Government in detaining the Maori political prisoners, instead of bringing them to trial at once.

During a squall this forenoon the waterman's boat capsized and the occupant (Mr Holbrook) clung to the boat, and was rescued, by a boat from tho Elsinore schooner.