TELEGRAMS.
(Per Greville's Telegram Company, Renter's Agents.) Dunedin, April 25. Mr Stewart, Customs locker, who had his foot injured a month ago by an accident at the Universal Bond, died yesterday,
Barber, the Kyebum mail contractor, was thrown off his cart on Saturday and killed instantaneously. Mr Chaplin,"coach proprietor, has filed a deed of arrangement, the aßeged cause being the undue pressure of the Bank of New Zealand. The match between the Dunedin and the London Artillery came off on Saturday ; our men averaged fifty-three. A portion of the wreck of a large ship is on the beach at Green Island ; it has been visited by the police and they are unable to discover any signs by which it can be identified. Nelson, April 25. The Provincial Council was opened this afternoon. The revenue prospects are good. The Superintendent will bring in a measure for selling land on deferred payments. He is favorable to the annexation of the Grey district, from the Teremakau to Greymouth, to the Nelson province. He will introduce a Gas Bill for Nelson, and a measure for water supply for the goldfields ; a railway from Nelson to Foxhill, and up the Grey River to the Brunner Coal Miue, being the terminal portions of the Nelson and West Coast line.
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Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2492, 26 April 1871, Page 2
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