Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell; Tuesday, November 19, 1878. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IX, Issue 471, 19 November 1878, Page 5

Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell; Tuesday, November 19, 1878. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(from our own correspondent.) * Dunedin', November 19, 2.20 p.m. About £BO,OOO worth o£ damage has been done by the bush fire at Waimate. Studholm loses £40,000. Potts, his manager, has been seriously burned. A telegram received last night from Captain Sinclair of the fire-brigade says the fire is as bad as ever. A heavy gale is blowing ; the town has a poor chance unless the wind changes. The ship Piako, which left Portsmouth on 10th October for Lyttelton, had prior to the 14th inst. to put into Pernambucco with fire on board. The London telegram conveying the news adds that the passengers are all well, and.no sickness on board, and does not justify any apprehension of serious damage to either ship or cargo. The Union Company has a risk on her for £5,000, of which £2,000 is re-insured. She had over 200 immigrants on board. Over £SOO has been subscribed for the Waimate sufferers, who greatly need assistance. Over 30 families are houseless. The Government has apologised to the late chairman of the Dunbank Road Board for the recent prosecution against him. A Mrs Mackay has been nearly burnt to death at Waikouaiti during a bush fire there. The Premier leaves W ellington for Oamaru to-morroW. Auckland gives the Australian Cricketers a fitting reception on their arrival by the mail steamer. On September sth an object was observed floating low in the water by those aboard the ship Rangitikei, which arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday. Captain Milraan at once steered for it, and found it to contain two wretched human beings who were perfectly nude, and standing in a boat which was submerged. They were doing battle for dear life with sharks (hundreds of which surrounded them) sheir only weapons being the bottom boards of the boat which they had torn off and with these rude clubs they managed to keep their assailants at bay. When recovered enough to speak, they had a sad story to relate. They were survivors of six seamen who had been capsized from a boat belonging to the Portugese barque Amerique. The other four had been eaten by the sharks, two of them having been actually torn from the boat. LATEST BY CABLE. London, November 14. The British troops on the frontier of Afghanistan are suffering from ill-health; the transport service is defective. The Ameer maintains a passive attitude, and is seemingly disinclined for war. The colonial agents are co-operating with the Exhibition Commissioners re Sydney Exhibition. Applications for space are numerous, and still increasing. Hyman, formerly of New Zealand, has been sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude for forgery, INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne (undated). Sir Bryan O’Loughlin has been appointed one of the Commissioners to urge the Reform Bill on the Imperial Parliament. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmm