STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1815, 27 October 1874, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Wellington, Monday. The provincial land sale is going on ; the prices realised are considerably over the upset in general. The French war ship Vire has arrived at Fort Chalmers. The ship Calypso ha 3 arrived, but not yet towed in. The Jessie Headman ha* returned after being blown off. The whaling barque Chance had to put back, having lost both anchors afc the Macquaries. This day. Mr. Eattray, tho late president of the Duriedin Cricket Club, was presented yesterday by the Club with a bat with ornamental silver plate and inscription. He leaves for Europe to-morrow. The Key. Fathers O'Leary and Walsh, new Roman Catholic priests, were passengers by the Calypso from London. Tho second half-yearly report of the National Insurance Company shows the total receipts for the past half-year as £29,160 8s 2d; expenses, £] 3.518 18s 6d, leaving a surplus of £15,641 9s 8d; after deducting £'7,588 19s 8d for losses for the half-year, leaves a balance for the year'e profit and loss account of £23,086 8s 6d, of which directors recommend that £15,000 be set apart for the formation of a reserve fund. There will be a dividend of 10 per cent, on the paid-up capital (£2,500), the balance to be carried forward to the next half-year. The dividend will be payable on the 17th of November. Dunedin, Monday. The Press Club is now fairly started here. At a meeting on Saturday night it was stated there were nearly sixty members, and the meeting proceeded to the election of officers. Bell, of the Evening Star, was elected president. The Press Dramatic Club will give a performance on November 9th in aid of the Hattie Shepparde Memorial Fund. Nelson, This day. Arrived —Chile, with 217 immigrants. * All well. One woman and three children died on the passage. Auckland, Thi« day. Arrived: Schooner Pearl, from Fiji. She brings a special despatch announcing that the cession of the islands had been effected. The British flag was to be hoisted on the lOtk October. The cession took place on the 30fch September at Nasova, situated two miles from Levuka. Maafu, who stands next the king, has not yet decided as to what couse he will adopt, but it is believed he will offer j little or no opposition. Sir Hercules Robinson, after the ceremony of cession had taken place, requested that the government of the islands be carried on until his return from the Windward Islands, where Maafu resides, in the same manner as previously. Great fears are entertained for the safety of the fore-and-aft schooner Ivanhoe. She left Auckland on August 26th, for Levuka; there has been no tiding of her since. She was owned by Cruickshank & Co., and was insured for £1000 and valued at £1500.