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Bruce Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 711, 22 June 1875, Page 5

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Dunedin, June 21, 7.45' p.m.' Thirteen miles of the Winton-Kingston railway to Benmore, are opened for traffic.

By the Sandridge fire, the New Zealand Company lose £1500 ; the South British, £1500} National, £1000 j Standard, £1000. »^

The northern escort; now comes down only each second month. The comparatively small returns and bad roads are ihe cause. .

*■" Messrs G-oodyer, Baird and Logan, the, proprietors of the Cromwell Company, have divided £1600 since Christmas. The last crushing yielded three ozs. to the ton. •

At Queensfcown, a man named Smith,' proceeding to Kingston, was eating meat on board the steamer Antrim/when a piece stuck in his throat, choking'liim. At the inquest it was stated that piece-was two inches broad, and one inch thick.

A paper called the ' Satirist/ is to be published here shortly. - ■.■ ■ ■ .

Fifteen miles of railway Tvere opened in the province of Canterbury fco-dayj and another ' fifteen will bo opened on July 15. ; The schooner Mary Campbell, which went ashore at Hokilika, got off with little damage. ; Wellington, June 21." The Government Education Bill is said to favor denominationalisin. The ' Time 9' in a leader this morning gives Sir G-eo. Bowen " fits " for daring, in a speech he delivered in London, to compare a parcel of savages to the Highlanders, and Maori chiefs to. men .foremost hv history as gallant gentlemen, like Montrose and Dundee,