Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLDFIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell: Tuesday, March 10, 1885. SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 830, 10 March 1885, Page 2

Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLDFIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell: Tuesday, March 10, 1885. SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRKBPO.NDK.ST.) DUNEDIN. Monday Evening. Sir Julius Yogel has arranged to address the Dunedin electors on March 21st. This is in reply to a requisition got up by some of his personal friends, who wish to exalt him if possible above Mr Stout. I should not be at all surprised to see the attempt resented, for Stout has a host of admirers in Dunedin, at any rate there is no general desire to hear Yogel, and he is not likely to be received with any enthusiasm. In consequence of the news that the Home Government will accept Colonial contingents for the Soudan if they reach Souakim by September the enrollment of Yolunteers in Dunedin continues. It is proposed that they shall join one of the Australian contingents if New Zealand does not send one. The San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland yesterday. Mr G. A. Sala, the wellknown journalist, author and lecturer, was a through passenger to Sydney. The mail news gives many particulars about the fall of Khartoum and other events in the Soudan, which makes very interesting reading. The Jockey Club have handed over £IOO to the Benevolent Institution, being part of their totalisator profits at the recent meeting, and they can well afford it. The Champion Race (three miles), run at Melbourne on Saturday, was won by Commotion, with David second, and Silver King third. Six horses started. Commotion won easily, his time being smin. 26£secs., which is half a second slower than his time in 1883, when he won the same event. First King when he won it in 1878 also did it in 5 min. 26secs.

A good deal of interest has been created by the publication in Saturday’s Daily Times of the account of a successful ascent of Mt. Earnslaw, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, by two young gentleman named Ross, of the Daily Times reporting staff, and Marshall, son of Mr Marshall, formerly of Clyde. They got about 2000 feet higher than the Rev. Green got when he tried it, A bad case of cruelty to a child came before the Christchurch Police Court on Saturday. Samuel A. Court, a blacksmith, was charged with inflicting grevious bodily harm on Ms daughter Nina, 15 years of age. Her injuries are so severe that she will be confined to her bed probably for three weeks. Accused was remanded till 14th March. It appears that about nine o’clock on Thursday night Court came home and found his daughter sitting by the fire reading by the light of a kerosene lamp close by. In a fit of temper, incensed by the drunken state he was in, he seized the lamp, and after making use of some abusive language to his daughter dashed it towards the fireplace. The lamp burst, and some of the oil falling in the grate flared up the chimney, while the girl’s dress became ignited. Court rushed outside, leaving his daughter enveloped in flames. Her screams attracted the attention of her mother, who was in the house of a neighbor next door, and who fortunately came in time to save her daughter fatal injuries. The report of the unemployed commission in Canterbury has been presented to the Government. It goes thoroughly into the whole question. Amongst the suggestions made is one that village settlements should be opened along the West Coast and Northern Trunk lines to encourage the laborers to settle down, and a very sensible suggestion is made for the employment of men in the meantime —viz., the replanting of forests in different parts of the Colony to supply the place of those burnt or cut down. James Anthony Froude, the celebrated historian, is at present on a visit to the Auckland Hot Lakes. At Pendalton, near Christchurch, on Saturday, a farmer named William Peat committed suicide by poisoning himself with strychnine. He had been strange in conduct for some time past. CABLE HE¥S. London, March 7. The Daily News to-day states that official despatches received from St. Petersburg!! strengthen the hopes of an amicable settlement being arrived at between England and Russia on the Afghan frontier question. ■lt is announced that Lord Carrington has been appointed to succeed Lord Augustus Loftus as Governor of New South Wales. In the House of Lords to-day Earl Granville stated that he regretted that annoyance had been caused to Prince Bismarck by portion of the contents of an English Bluebook on the Pacific question, aud dwelt on the importance of the maintenance of friendship between England and Germany, Canada will probably send 3000 men to the Soudan. Caieo, March 7. Lord Wolseley has issued an address to the troops under his command, saying that he hopes to lead an army into Khartoum before the end of the year, and that in the meantime preparations must continue to be made for an advance in the autumn. INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne, March 7. The Official Gazette contains a memo, from the Governor, thanking, in the • Queen’s name, those who recently volunteered in Victoria for service in the Soudan. The Argus to-day suggests that the Government should offer to send money instead of troops for the Soudan, as the, Victorian forces may be required for local defence in the event of an embroglio with Russia,