TELEGRAMS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2089, 18 November 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

» [PEB ANGLO-AuSTBALIAnPBE3S TELEGBAPH Agbnox.l Auckland, Nov. 17. Two fresh cases of scarlet fever have occurred amongst the Hydaspes passengers at the Quarantine Station. Most of the saloon passengers are southerners. There are great complaints amongst them about not being separated from the Government; immigrants during the voyage. Mr Day, of the firm of Messrs, Hey wood and Co., Christchurch, has sent a petition to the Superintendent protesting. Mr Collins, of Kelson, aged 80, is in a low state of. mind, and . possessed by a fear that unless he is removed within a few days he will die. He is not suffering from disease. The passengers have been pub to great inconvenience for want of water, and proper sanitary convenience. The health officer ho 3 consented to the petition of the saloon passengers by the Hydaspes for release. GbAHAMSEOWN, Nov. 17. The firing for district representatives for the Thames Scottish match took place to-day — Campbell, 87 j M'Lean, 85; Gorrie, B*. Wellington, Nov. 17. The Veteran Corps fired for "district representatives with the following result : — Crowe, 87; Bannister, 85 ; Scott, 83. With regard to the performance of the interprovincial mail service so as to obviate the necessity of the San Francisco boats coming down the coast, the Post states that the General Government have declined to pay £23C0 per annum asked hy the New Zealand Hteam Shipping Company, and intimate that they will pay no more than £120 per trip, making the arrangement .from month to month. Nelson, Nov. 17. Thirty families of immigrants will shortly be sent to Kiaramea as a nucleus of a special settlement. They will be ensured eight shillings a day for three days in a week for six months,and fifty-five acres of land are to be leased to each family for two shillings per acre, and at the end of fourteen years to become their freehold. The Provincial Government is advertising for a £27,000 loan for harbour improvements. DtfNEDiir, Nov. 17. The prisoner Gatt, who was sentenced at the last session of the Supreme Court to six months' imiDrisonment for killing a calf, was discharged to-day. The last official act of the Governor before leaving Wellington was to pardon Gatt. '•■":■ ; Pobt Chalmbbb, Nov. 17. The barque Hadda, from Riverton toLyttelton, passed the Heads at noon.