TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
[from our own correspondent.]
DUNEDIN.
Tuesday, 7.50 p.m. Large numbers of tickets for the Macandrew banquet are being sold. In the action Flextnan v. Standard Insurance Co., the jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for £ISOO. _ The Union Company’s s.s. Bruce was
wrecked about' 1 hdlf-a-mile sou'.h of the Otago, Heads oh ( Saturday morning. She ran on to the rocks in a fog, and became a total wreck, The vessel was insured for £25,003—£10,000 in British offices ; N; - tional, £2,00(| ; South British, £‘l,odo ; Victoria, £l,Ol/0 ; New Zealand, L.10,000 ; National (South Australian), L.500. Yesterday her hull was sold by auction for L.140.
The Southern escort arrived this morning bringing the following quantities of gold : Lawrence, 1535 ozs. ; Waitahuna, 171 ozs ; Tokqnmiriro, 382 ozs. 3 dwts. Total, 2088 ozsk 3 dwts.
The. Star’s Wellington correspondent t I - graphs that Sir Francis Dillon Bell has decided to retire from political life, and will announce his retirement from the Speakership of the House of Representatives at this evening's sitting. In the House yesterday afternoon, Pyke gave notice to move for another Goldfields member for Otago. The Assembly will be prorogued on Thursday (to-morrow). Grahamstown, Oct, 16,
A woman named Mrs Wall kilted two of her children this afternoon, a boy aged nine years and girl aged seven. It appears that the woman has been giving way to drink, and in a sudden burst of insanity took an axe and inflicted dreadful wounds about the head and neck of the children. The boy died.immediately, and the girl survived only a couple of hours»
LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. j , Sir James M'Culloch’s amendment condemning the financial proposals of the Governifemt was carried by 39 to 34. The M'U'stry decided on a dissolution, which the Governor refused to grant. Rumor has it that they intend to retain their seats at all hazards, but it is more likely they will tind discretion the better part of valor and resign. Mrs Goodenough left to-day for England by the s.s. Durham.
A. K. Smith has been elected Mayor of Melbourne without opposition. The New Zealand, cable was shipped aboard the Edinburgh and Hibernia steamers, which leave London about the end of the month. ‘
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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 310, 20 October 1875, Page 5
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