STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1867, 28 December 1874, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.

Auckland, This day. The Star of the South, from Levuka, i brings intelligence of the drowning of 1 Lotus Myers, tobacconist, of the Thames, while bathing in n waterhole. Intelligence is also received that Miss Porch, sister-in-law of Joseph Bennett,. has been drowned in the Waikato. The Rosario's sailors, guilty of disturbances and assault on the Police on Christmas Eve, were brought before the Court, and ordered aboard the ship to be dealt with by the naval authorities; Wellington, This day The Agent-General telegraphs from London on November 12th that he has dispatched the India with 163 immigrants for Auckland; the Hudson City and Vienna with 721 to Napier ; the Rakaia with 333 to Canterbury ; the Garelock, Oamaru, Wellington, and Dunedin, with 983 to Otago; together with a large quantity of railway material. He also confirms the report that Sir Arthur Gordon i 3 appointed Governor of Fiji. Mr L. B. Gillies has been offered, and has accepted, one of tha Judgeships. Judge Gresson retires on a pension in preference to leaving Christchurch. Judge Chapman retires on condition that District Judge Ward is not to succeed him.. There is a permanent Judgeship and an .Acting Judgeship still vacant. It is rumoured that Sir George Grey, will stand for City West in place of Mr Gillies.