General News.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 50, 24 June 1875, Page 6

General News.

; Swimming matches are now quite common at the Turkish Baths, Dunedin; A Telegraph Station is '-now opeuat Wairoa> in the Province of Wellington. The Canterbury ; Provincial Council was prorogued on Friday afternoon.' The Ballarat Star states that the ; presence of typhoid fever in Clunes is causing considerable alarm. A man named Robert Gibson, a native of Sutherland; was drowned' at Stewart's^ Islarid on the 12th inst. "" Thursday last, being; the Presbyterian Sacramental Fast Day, ' there was no ; sitting of the- Provincial Council. Latest telegrams from" Auckland say the floods in the northern Wairoa river^ caused by the recent; heavp rains, were higher thaff for years. The y floods at Kaipara inundated- a large- extent of conn try> ? and drowned 1 many cattle; A It is ' understood that - among the measured to - >be brought « forward > next session: of Parliament -is dne -for the amendment of the* Bankruptcy- laws] andthat Mr BoweriThasV. devoted^ great care to the framirvg of the r ßillv 'r> . : \A- well —attended 5 meeting ; df 'the early -settlers was held : at' "Wellington on Thursday afternoon. A resolution was unarrimon*sly :: xaniedpio- the effect that pioneer; settlers'; andtririeni'bers of their fapiilies, -who— arrived prior to June, 184:8', are 1 ratified v to free grants of land, arid that-Farliament =be moved !in the matter. r - 3 t;,~ At the Hobart Town; Criminal; Sit; tings recently, two lads were, 1 - eaten sentenced to. eight years' imprisonment for having committed a capital ofrence :on another .youthi The evidence; di's* closed the fact that .offences 'oiVthejkind were frequently committed in the .Government Traibihg *at Hobaf t Tpw|n,7 where "-the boys > were kepfA ; " • "': . A maniiamed resident , . at* the 'Blue Spur, met jWith : an accident « through :a- ? fall of. earth pn Friday, last.' A He- was- taken- to', the Lawrence Hospital, where it 'was found ohe leg7wa8 J bri|shed r ;tb Aa^ptdpi ' "Amputation 'the^ |)6dr fallow ' died ,'^n^hj^ir ; , o£t4rw^dfi} ; He. leaves a widp-w/aiid sii>ch|lHreh/, JJ iH ... . : Ajproclamation in thO/AG Gafcefcte ' repeals; all- former frulesrrre^ gardirig /the r jremission r Df: sentences <6f prif dne^s^cOhfinedin I**public1 ** public -prisons " ;? in; New r ;Zea)and^ rule^i'^ ther^sulkp^ is a sine quajyripnfi thjoTughiitedOesinot count in^ie^wayrbfiaeWaymarksi' *l yAUy rife.UzM A ai %&-M-& im "

V- I ,^lpndid v wdi .perform. .in_svfoey M i Mr Longden, formerly.s.Hy^ tbe^ietorian^P^ mth^forgeiyA, .. - „, y ■- .". ~> AT- : "^ r f AA \ -AWiiiggeKw^igfiingMdSoiM has been found- a t -Cluhes r ia ~*&e r rsew~Loitour: ICompatty!l Compatty!s l iniiheV\A J A LAV~£asa "' A .A resolution has been passed in ? the Queehsladd'^Parliahifeht^ih^fdv©^ 'bf %M atiheiatipnlpf New* Guinea. A 5 a { y-^ j ' Rumb^uT kktes f that ah^ctidfl/ihvoly--ing' eignty^hbusahd^ ' regarding' the s W&ik!atp 'failw^i' »'&'* •* r 'Thfei -' Qharlstbh^He'rald- 14 -gives -'tiatu rehct'to«the statetoelit'tbatiMr THomas: Liddell, ' a ' w&H-lMowh-Jex^ioi#^has > dropped 1 oh 'tp a ; silver" 'mine*: in <ohe* of the ranges 1 riotffitr^rbfo'. Westporti ■"' ' It ; is ; ru^^ ver#menrAis f> about Ho^-purehafee'-^he' Was'hdyke^hieat" prSs'er 1 ving: wb : rk§-forVa ' pehal' establishment forlbng^ieiitericeU l prisoners;! ■•■• '• »•' ! - '.A :•*-■..•.<•> : A-.-: v . Another class* of -young' Uadyii tele- i gra^hists, J sixain • number, 1 *ha;s -^beeh started* at^the-' WellingtOhtom^e. « -.y.r ry "The last dfthe' salmon^oW' was* ro- ; moved frdm the" > Invercargill? i hatching; boxes oh the ! 9th I'nst.ySfortj^nihe.idayS' after' arrival, ' the 5 -'whole Thaving.proveddead.' - ! : -~- ' ■■■ . '■•■-_ 7: -.:•;-, -;o ■(?■.;,■.•"■- --•A Chinaman has aibaby -in -a house : in- -Little Beurke&s'treeri! < ' Melbdurne: iJe ; Btrudk- ati butt missed her- -hitting the ba'bfr 'which/died' iristantlyA "- ..• ; 7.. y.:.-y. ■ ,-. •. A Gburity' Court- Judge is-aceused- in' the Uewsp'apers -of intoxication i ow the bench' 'iat MarybordugH;' ih ! V^ctoria^- A '■ Resolutions were 1 passed i-in^the'Syd-; ney Assembly - in ; favor^ of j subsidising; the : proposed New 1 Zealand^cabiei : > ,•»':.. The Melbourne <; Argus'. • has* commenced '« a - suitdn - equity ' against Hhe> « Gipps' Land 'Mercury} 'for usingi»"Eng- ' lish telegrams without payment! ! * ■.'»: A charge of forgery is 1 being'investigated against JDuncan; "Lohgern>ufpr-: Jmerlyan ohicer "intheDragbonsii audia* ;methber ; of the -Victorian^ Assbmblyio: ".-.; j In --the -'small-bore" rifle iniatchuwitltf sTasmania, the Melbourne team : of <six? ;made 614,. out of a possible: 672.^., the conditions-being; seven; shots ..'at : two, 1 three,' five, and six -hundred. :The' Tasr maniaUs did hot all fire. ; ■■.='." yyA.yi , : Robert "Vainej pensioner, formerly oi Auckland, was found dead in an na-' furnished 'house in Tennyson-street; At the inquest the jury . returned a verdict that deceased died from starvation and neglect, accelerated by intemperance^ - The blacks attacked some Chinese on the Palmer River, and robbed ; their tents. They speared one Chinaman, and subsequently ate him. Two human skeletons, and a. number of • splendid greenstone implements, have been 'found hear the beach at/Sum* mer, near Christchu'rchj ■ :?i; 'Jr i Maryborough' is decidedly progress-! ing, says the ' Wide Bay News,' and then goes on tb prove the assertion- by a lengthy description of ai new sausagemachine started by a local butcher. '.:■•..'- Intelligence: from Waikato ''states that the Kingites, under direcfcionsffrom Tawhaio^ will* engage; much, -more iex* tensively ?fn wheat planting this year" on account of facilitiei3 afforded by the railway for sending the, > grain, to market; A :■ : Edwards/ the pedestrian ; commenced his fete, to walk 100 miles ini24 K hburs> in the Dunedin drill shedy : onhjFriday evening.; He started; a ten minutes past five o'clock and talked .his: first five miles in -56 mm; 32- sees. ,' ten mile^iinl hour 49 ! min. 40 sees,- j;/ fifteen miles, 2 hours s4- mm.;;, ; twenty^ fivemiles, 4: hours 55 . mm. 20s>secs; He finished his^twenty-fifth mileiat/ten minutes past tehi o'clock, i . • .' z :u\ ■■ . ; Two Railway/ employes at 'Rolleston Cahterburyj. on Wednesday placed > a quantity;- of' live<{enlberss pf Grey 'River, cpal-in.-an-j oil-tin iinAth'eir sleeping-voorn to warm it) and -the: next morning- both: were foiindiini al i state rof insensibility. '-■ -One'-iredovered /c slowly when taken- into the open air^:; but ithe other one had t to- be conveyedfto; the Ghristchurc*biHospit'alv :- : „t hin> h-y s y , i The* AHbbart iTbwn ; Mercury' .cah-f hounces ;the^deathrof the racehorse fPitz Yattendohi; i i fromc dntes'tinalot) raptures Fitz Y;attßndoh s hadobeen irecentlyipuw chased :by. Mr Al&ediß^^LfoßitHersum of .650? guineas, fiom;Sir Heilcuieseiaobi insony Governor of iNewi Southi Wialesi Fitz .,, Yattendbny vwho was iaonly yearsr old, . -had Jrun; ? an? fpupteeiiuirffces) win'ning.fiyejvbeittg -second KMu^timeej andptwicefthird^;;.' 'y;;>.;h. 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