SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5239, 27 July 1876, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

NAHKU, Wednesday. FLOODS. Thn Hood is .subsiding The railway thioitgh ti.illic li.vs bull lcsuiiiccl 'I'lio nvci l'.it.ine was higher th.iu in J.uuiiiiy. It (tvoitlowt'd its banks, ami li is done (Limage along tbo v.illcy ; washed down the tclo graph posts, and subincigod tin* wnes. The Povetty Hay lino of communication with (iisljorno lins been stopped since Monday A subsciiption is on foot for the nlhoni anil ciew of the baiijue 'Coq du Vill.igc. 1 About CIOO is collected.

MiKNHElM, Wednesday. Tlic Taylor :u\<l Omaha Rivorn being up yestculay. the town was much Hooded Fortunately the Opawa was not m llood, ami so all tin 1 water ranofffioin the town dining the night A fow yards of railway embank incut woic earned away neai Konomtko Station, and tho train di<l not inn ycstoiday afternoon. Thia morning tho mail was bi ought through on a trolly. Tho tiain has not resumed running yet. DUNEDIN, Wednesday. 'J'ho Colonial Bank meeting was held today, when the report, as telegraphed pre viously, wan read and adopted The chair man, in Ins address, referred to tho satisfactory condition of the bank's affairs, and spoke in high terms of tho acquisition of Mr.. Cowio as general man iger. He stated that tho capital of tho bank was now held among 2,4(57 proprietors. Tho directors consul"! oil the capital sullicicnt for tho present, and it would not be uecomaiy to make anothei call for i considerable time. Tho note an ul.i tion shows an increase of £10, l.'W (>(>'.) now accounts wero opened with the bank in tho colony ainco December last Several changes in the direction of economy were i cfei red to. Mr. H. S. Chapman, in seconding tho adoption of the report, considered tho directors had acted prudently in not declaring a dividend at so early a period of tho Bank's existence. A vote of thanks to tho oilicoro of the Bank was passed. A hundred shareholders were present. The result of tho ballot for the directors will not be known till about 10 o'clock. A portion of tho scaffolding of tho new Tolegraph-ofllce gave way, and several men fell a distance of IGffc., threo being taken to tho hospital seriously injured. Mr. Michael llcaley, clfik to Messrs'. K«ist and McCarthy, browois, was found dead in bed. The proposed co operative store shares are going oil freely. A fisherman known as Alfred fell from a eh (Tat the (leads 200ft. and was killed. POUT CHALMUUS, Wednesday. A fishciman named Alficd was killed yesterday at Sandfly Heach whilo attempting to clnnl) a cliff 200ft high. Ho missed his hold, falling on tho rocks beneath, and died foiu boms later. Tho man and two others woe compelled to abandon their boat, and wuictiying to reach the mainland when the accident occuncd.