COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

Wanganui Herald, Volume V, Issue 16710, 5 February 1873, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

(PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELE; GRAPH COMPANY) ■ ■■•■' : ' "r: —: — ' "i. i '•- ■ \ WELLINGTON.. :/ ., , , ■\\ .'•■ ::;Feb. sth. /. Letters from the Agent. Geenral re-1 port 111 tons steel shipped for Otago in Beautiful Star, 53 .tons for Canterbury per Charlotte Gladstone, 47 tons: rails, 29 tons spikes and fastenings, shipped per Cissy for Canterbury;.Forfarshire : for Wellington," brings 29 spikes for Nelson ; City of. Bombay for Otago bririgs'9s tons rails for Invercargill and Mataura railway. ~ ~ • Dr. Featherston has shipped large quantities of salmon ova for Otago. Shaw Saville 'offered to charter. \ ship specially adapted. — Dr Hockstetter promises to use his influence to bring New- Zealand exhibits! into prominence. in Vienna; i::^:! .1 The tenders for the Moeraki,-WaitakL' & Upper Hutt rail ways will be decided to day. ■ , ■ ' The: Governor' arrived yesterday in the Taranaki. Annual meeting of the New-Zealand Central Piechabite districtreport-shews the to tal increase; of % adult :Ttentj d3 3, present strength of the -district 257 members .£l4l in ten months to general fund; applications for several new tents granted.', " '" /■ Co-operative Society declared a divi-' dend of 15 per cent' for half year also 6": per cent on shares. The Taranaki.sails .North this aftei^ noon. ; . = S Hecent excesses by larrikins put po^ the alert; gates were smashed, boats cast kdrift, and '^nuch injury ha^s been done to property. Two respectable Government-em-;, ployees detected, both Auckland men. Advertisements are in the Independent for vessels to fetch Greymouth, cotjls.-