TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 29, 1 June 1870, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(From our own Gorresjmulenta.) . ..... . -;.',-' : >v ; 0—- "' • I>UNEDIN. ~•; j f ;;, Tuesday, 4.48 p.m. , •:•; A deputation lias waited oh the Post-ihaster-Gonoral (Mr "Vogel), in reference to j . Collie's'proposed line of steamers between »• New Zealand and San Francisco. The Postmaster-General stated that the General i Gjtfjvarnment would support a direct line it;) «»ly» and were in favour of making Wel- ; fw' lington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers the porta of call. Mr Larnach, Colonial Manager of tho Bank of Otago, has made a proposal to lend £500,000 to tho Provincial Government for the construction of the Southern Trunk Railway; the loan to extend over I a period of from ten to fifty years, and the rate jif interest to be eight per cent. Tse proposed special grant to the Dunstan Hospital has been thrown out in the Provincial Council by 17 to 10. The Council has voted the following items under the head of " Roads" :—Duni • stan to Cromwell, £1000; Cromwell to 1 Queenstown, £1400; Cromwell to Wan naka, £150; Albertown to Cardrona, £SO; Punstan to Nevis, £SO; Cromwell to Ben-

digo, £250 ; Newcastle to head of Wanaka Lake, £SO; Gladstone to head of Hawea Lake, £l5O ; Lake Wakatip to Lake Mackerrow, £1500; and various amounts for • ~. branch roads in the Wakatip district. The Waste Land Board have resolved u that the reserve near the Cromwell Bridge n shall be laid off into sections and sold by auction, each section to be valued before tela.

—o— QUEENSTOWN. Tuesday, 4.20 p m. e Fox and party hare returned from their prospecting trip up the HollyforJ Valley, a They report having experienced wretched in weather rain, snow, and cold. They y, made as full a search as circumstances perri mitted for gold, but were unsuccessful in n j finding the precious metal in payable quango pities in the Hollyford Valley. In the e j JDart Valley they were more successful, n J and obtained a favourable prospect in one .Jl or two places. The weather was so much J against them, and provisions and tools so ljJ difficult to procure, that they determined i to cease operations for the winter. The I other parties out prospecting have also ieß | caved in. | Several feet of snow exists on the saddle re | near Lake M'Kerrow.

It is reported that in spring prospecting s . be resumed by the parties mentioned above. lOC ... j e Sherwin s party is among those who have Bs j returned. They reported to our correslan pondent that they reached Martin's Bay, and spoke highly af the agricultural capa!to bilities of the district. The bush abounds |fi j # in game, and the lake and rivers in fish. as The road party are progressing, under sea the circumstances, but slowly. They have ea . blazed the track so that no mistakes can ae . be made. re. Mr Wilson, surveyor, is rapidly proceed;ed ing with the laying out of the township at the mouth of the Dart, where an accommodation house is in course of erection.