SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 1323, 28 August 1894, Page 4

SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

FROM OUR OWN CORRBSPOSDKST. DUNEDIN. Monday Ew'n». A young man who has been victimising persons throughout the colony has been sent to gaol for three months at Outram Landing at Auckland he has worked his way South, pretending to hold a position in the Post and Telegraph Department. He also alleged he was agent for rubber stamps, and took orders in cash, receiving according to his order books, over £TSO. He tried to avoid paying his hotel bill at Outram, and came to grief. The tines, amounting to about £GS, imposed on VV. E. Hanlon for using false trade marks, have been paid. A football match was played on Saturday between tne Star (premiers of Southland) and Kaikorai (premiers of Dunedin) Kaikorai won by G points to nil, but the Star gave them a very tough game, their forwards beating the local men. The New South Wales team played their first match in the colony at Auckland, and suffered defeat from Auckland by 14 points to 11. The visitors appeared likely to win till a few minutes oft the end, when they tired. They were favorites in the betting, and probably owing to this the visitors were hooted by a section of those present. At the conclusion of the game Manawatu defeated Wanganui by 5 points to nil. Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay played a drawn game.

Hokitika beat Luugwood (Christchurch) by r 8 points to 5. Seceders from the Auckland Women’s Political League have formed a reform league. One of the objects is to secure for women equal wages for equal services, and another is equal laws for women, and one moral code for both sexes.

A special meeting of the Bank of New Zealand shareholders has been called at Wellington to elect a new board of directors, in accordance with the Bank Guarantee Act.

Mr Connolly, American Consul at Auckland, suggests that a splendid opening exists if those interested send a shipment at once of the best woods of the Colony with an expert. He believes the fjrat colony to secure an American market will retain ft. The sub-committee of the Midland Railway Committee has prepared a draft report that as the company is unable to complete the present contract, it should be rescinded apd a pew one entered into, making copoessions as to the Belgrade sectiop, and giving debentures for £018,250 for the completion of the main lino in four years, provided the land grant is released. There is every indication that the session will be unusually long, unless the Government supporters get tired and force the Government to abandon many measures.

Scobie Mackenzie was entertained at a banquet at Naseby on Saturday. He

said he had been invited to attend and give evidence before the Waste Lands Committee rc the Pomahaka purchase. He denounced the inquiry as a farce. The members of the committee had been chosen by a Minister whose case was being tried and who was one of the members, while only four belonged to the Opposition. It was as if Santo had been allowed to choose his own jury and had packed it with two-thirds Anarchists. Reefton battery returns : Alpine, 2190z amalgam from 190 tons ; Drake, 940z amalgam from 90 tons ; Hercules, 30oz amalgam from 30 tons ; Wealth, oloz amalgam from GO tons. Cocksparrow dredge, 430z 12dwt gold for 134 hours dredging.

CABLE NEWS.

The Government have abolished the eight hours’ experiment in the Waltham gunpowder factor}'. Surrey has won the cricket championship. By a tidal wave in Azof a number of villages were destroyed, and several ships along with their crews were lost.

In a trial trip of the P. and O. Co.’s new steamer Caledonia the speed registered was 19 knots.

The Mersey Harbor Board is greatly increasing facilities for handling wool, and hopes by this means to make Liverpool a centre for the Australian wool trade.

It has been arranged that the wool in bond in America, of the value of seven million dollars, will be released without payment of duty.

The trouble between the British residents and the Nicaraguan troops continues, and at Bhmelds the latter arrested the British Consul, Hatch and eight foreigners, forwarding them to Grey town where a British warship has arrived to protect British interests.

In the Queen’s speech proroguing Parliament foreign relations are said to be of a peaceable nature, but regret is expressed that questions with France in relation to Africa are not yet settled, but it is hoped negotiations will bring about a speedy arrangement. In Ireland order has been maintained to a remarkable degree, though difficulties exist which the Government are earnestly considering.

A forecast of the butter market published, giving the views of leading Colonial and continental importers, is to the effect that unless shipments are made early they had better be reserved until the Winter.

It is now alleged that the discovery of an elaborate plot for assassinating the Czar led to the cancellation of the orders for the military manoeuvres at Smolensk.

China is raising an additional 100,000 men to operate against the Japanese. Conflicting accounts are to hand of the encounter at Ping Rang. The Japanese declare it was simply trouble with the outposts, and that only one of their men was killed and five wounded.

The Chinese claim, however, that a large force of Japanese was engaged, and routed with a loss of 1300. The Chinese authorities are massing 31,000 men, and are sending 10,000 men towards Seoul where the Japanese have a strong position. A fierce battle is imminent.

INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne, August 22. At the sheep sales Mr Rich, of Mount Eden, received £8 8s for a ram ; Mr Burrows, of Wairarapa, sold 22 romney marsh rams at an average of from three guineas to live and a-half guineas ; and 10 romney marsh ewes at from two and a-quarter guineas to three guineas. Sydney, August 25. An epidemic of murder and suicide has set in throughout the colonies.

A women at Newman, named Leichardt, supposed to be insane, drowned her infant in a water cask, and then drowned herself in the same receptacle. The Pastoralists’ Union are gradually filling the shearing sheds, where the unionists struck. Plenty of free labor is now offering.

Brisbane, August 25

The shearers at Isisford have decided to continue the strike. This has caused considerable dissatisfaction amongst a number of unionists, who were prepared to resume work. A woolshed at Cassells’ station has been burned down by a band of armed men, who fired several shots, but fortunately without injuring anyone.