SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 843, 9 June 1885, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDBKT.) •—• D U N E D I N. Monday Evening. At the inquest on John Atkinson, keeper of the Corporation manure depSfc, a verdict of " Found Drowned" was returned. It was shown that deceased, while cray-fishing, was in the habit of letting himself down the cliff at Tomahawk over 100 feet by a clothes-line. The Rev. F. R. Fisher, one of the founders of the Canterbury branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, has given a donation of £IOOO to be remitted to the parent Society for work in China. A chess-match, by telegraph, between Dunedin and Christchurch, was commenced on Saturday, and so far the games are very equal. An auction mart at Auckland was entered by burglars, supposed to be after £3OO worth of jewellry to be sold. A panel was cat out of the back door, but as the valuables had been removed the burglars were baulked. The Arawa, with a large cargo and a number of passengers, sailed from Lyttelton on Saturday. The Tongariro, also full, was to sail from Wellington on Sunday, but was detained by a fierce gale blowing. An interesting race Home is anticipated. Joseph Mabey, an old resident, dropped dead in the streets of Wellington while delivering some of his farm produce to a customer. Another saw-mill, M'Phee's, at Longbush, Southland, was destroyed by fire on Sunday. No birthday honors have come to New Zealand this year, CABLE X7E-WS. Lonbon, June 6. A Russian newspaper publishes a telegram that Abdul Rahman, Ameer of Afghanistan, has been murdered by his suite. A violent cyclone has passed over Aden, causing great destruction in the town and among the shipping. The Cabinet have been unable to come to a decision on the question of the renewal of the Coercion Act in Ireland. Mr Gladstone has announced in the House of Commons that England and Russia had come to terms with regard to the arbitration on the Afghan frontier question, and both countries were agreed as to who was to be appointed arbitrator. The question of the Maori embassy was referred to in Parliament, when it was stated that the Imperial Government had no right to interfere in the affairs of a Colony having self-government. INTERCOLONIAL. The police are said to have important information concerning the bank robbery near Melbourne, and it is rumored that five men have been arrested. Arrangements for the reception of the Soudan contingent at Sydney are now completed, and include a military display in which 3,500 Volunteers will be engaged.