SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1363, 4 June 1895, Page 4

SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC.

__ «. . FROM OUR OWN' COIIIIBdPONDBSr. DUNEDIN. Monday Evening. Though the Rev. Mr Haweis' lectures were only moderately attended, there was Buch a rush to hear -him preach at St. Paul's, last evening, that not one half of the people could be crammed into the building. The Labor Bureau agent has received instructions to select 20 men to be seat to work on the Otago Central. There is a lively correspondence now between Earnshaw and the Premier, the member for Dunedin telling the Premier that he willingly concedes him the laurel crown as a past master of equivocation and evasion. It is understood the Mayor is moving to have the finance committee of the City Council discharged and a new one set up, because information re the couversion scheme has been allowed to leak out. Entries for the Winter Show, opening on Wednesday, number 459 as compared with 255 last yearA number of parents were fined on Saturday for neglecting to send their children to school. As showing the difficulty in getting some, boys to attend, one parent stated that the only expedient he could devise was to get the master to sign a book which the boy carried every day. This has proved so far successful. A deputation of shopkeepers waited on the Mayor to complain of obstructions to Princes Street in the neighborhood of High and Rattray Streets, where bookies and their supporters congregate. The Mayor said he had already written to the Police Inspector and would do so again. The thing was a disgrace and a scandal to the city. There was reason to believe orders had been sent from certain places detailing what police should and should not do respecting the regulation of the liquor traffic, and when he saw such supineness in that matter he was compelled to think some similar order had been issued. John Snow, 10 years of age, son of a well known resident of Outram, was killed on Saturday by a loaded gravel dray passing over his body. Thomas Yorston was shot in the leg at Waihola, by the barrel of a gun becoming separated from the stock and falliug on a stone, the concussion causing the charge to explode. When the case of Charles Waiters, charged with bigamy in London, was called at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, Mr Martin, S.M., said he doubted if he had jurisdiction as the offence had taken place in England. He adjourned it to take time to consider argument. In Saturday's football matches Kaikorai beat Uuiversity by 22 to nil ; Dunedin beat Pirates by 13 to G ; Zingari beat Union by 6to nil; and Alhambra beat Caversham by 12 to 4. Mr Wilson, the representative of the Midland Railway Co., declines to gi«re up the plans and specifications in his possession until advised by the directors, as such are valuable property of the Company. In a letter to the Governor, protesting against the seizure of the railway, he recognises that, as it was the act of the Governor's advisers, it would be out of place to discuss what he cousiders oppressive, improper, and unjust. He denies any wilful breach of coutract, or default or neglect, as defined by the act, and urges that any delay in arbitration is not the fault of the Company. The following are the Reefton returns : Hercules, 2020zs amalgam from 87 tons (clem up), being 233£0z-! of gold from 516 tons ; Big River, 419jj« gold from 288 tons ; Cumberland (clean up) 2440z* amalgam from 40 tons; Progress, 3450zs amalgam from 205 tons (clean up); Globe, 6830zs amalgam from 100 tons. The Hercules Co. pays a dividend of 6d. 0 ABLE NB?3. London, June 1. New South Wales cheese is pronounced by experts to be equal to English. The Scottish depositors in the Standard Bank of Australia have agreed to a reduction of interest on deposits to 2J per cent. In the French Chamber of Deputie3, after an animated debate, a motion, censuring the Government for interfering with justice in the matter of the railway scandals, was rejected by a majority of 25. Lightning set fire to some petroleum stores iu Hamburg. Five thousand five hundred tons of oil in tanks were burned, besidos 300 barrels. The damage i 3 estimated at £IOO,OOO. Fifteen lives were lost by an explosion on a gunboat at Guayquil, Ecuador. Out of 210 live sheep on the steamer Woolomoloo for London, 58 died on the voyage, the food being too dry. At the Bradford wool sales prices are maintained. Petitions, signed by a million people in the United Kingdom, have been presented to the House of Commons against the Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill. The People states that Ortou's knowledge of the Tichborue family was obtained from B)gle in Sydney. The claimaut intended to raise all the mouey possible and slip away to California., and there lose his identity, as he feared to proceed with the imposition. When he reached Panama, he found he could not evade the curiosity of his fellow passengers, and, consequently, had to go on to England. Interesting details arc given of his first interview with Lady Tich borne. The Oaks Stakes were won by Sir J. Miller's Li Sigesse, with De Rothschild's Galliana, 2ud. W. G. Grace has scored 100 runs in 10 successive matches in May. It is proposed to present him with a national testimonial. INTERCOLONIAL. Sydney, June 1. Jean Luie, cx-couvict, has sworn an affidavit that an inmate of the Parramatta Asylum is Sir Roger lichborne.