The Globe. MONDAY, JULY 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 331, 5 July 1875, Page 2

The Globe. MONDAY, JULY 5, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

* (Press Telegraph Agency.') Auckland, July 3. H.M. Dido has sailed for Wellington. Commissioner Kemp has purchased 92.000 acres at Whangarei for the General Government. Napier, July 3. The Council has considered the report of the committee re Mr Henry Russell’s petition on his land grievance. The committee has reported that the allegations are correct, but they have no power to give relief. Nelson, July 3. A lunch was given on board the Hawea to-day; about fifty were present, including the Superintendent and most of the leading citizens. She sails North this evening. Wellington, July 3. There has been incessant and very heavy cold rain tince the morning, and it is still coming down. There is a stiff south-east gale, and the highest tide seen since the tidal wave. The water is level with the top of the wharf, and nine inches deep on the watermen’s gridiron, and all their boats are afloat. 'The erection of a new hall for public amusement is now being projected here. Bluff, July 4, The Tararua, with the English mail, arrived oft the Bluff on the 3rd, and came to the wharf at 8 a.m. on the 4th, She left Melbourne at 3 30 p.m. on the 26th, and encountered strong easterly gales aud a tremendous head sea ; she hove to for fortyeight hours. She brings twenty-four saloon, thirty steerage passengers, and 200 tons cargo for all ports. Passengers for Lyttelton —Mr and Mrs 0. Townsheud, Mr Cameron, Mr Harker, and ten in steerage, and seventyfour tons cargo. She brings no later cable or Australian news than to hand by the Hero, The Tararua sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. Sailed —Queen of the Seas, barque, for Lyttelton, Dunedin, July 4, There was a tremendous fire last night at Kaikorai. Mr Flexman’s fellmongery and wool sheds were totally destroyed. The insurance office is expected to be hit heavily. It is supposed that he was covered to the extent of £9OOO, but as the fire occurred some distance from the town full particulars have not yet arrived. It was only on Thursday that the South British reinsured £SOO with the Australian Alliance, so they save themselves a little. The firemen were soon on the spot. There was plenty of water obtainable from a creek running near the works, but uo apparatus was available to throw the water on the fire. The glare from the conflagration was terrific, and lit up the whole town. Many thought it was the woollen mills. The reporteis from all the papers are out at the scene, and few particulars yet have arrived. The office of Messrs Webb and Fulton was burglariously entered by the upstairs window last night, and the s.s. Easby’s box stolen, containing the ship’s register and papers. The box was subsequently found empty, in Castle street.