SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5287, 22 September 1876, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

WELLINGTON, Thursday. The ReT. Father Petit Jean, a well-known Roman Catholic priest, dropped dead in St. Mary i Cathedral this evening about halfpait 5 o'clock. The|immedute came was heart disease.

[FIR PRMS AGENCY.] The schooner ' Arthur Wakefield' has arrived from Nelson. She left there at the end of last week, and got among breakers at Wangeha, about ten miles below Wanganui River, on Monday night or Tuesday morning. Captain John Watts and the cook, a foreigner, were washed overboard and drowned. The Fire Brigade are making arrangement! for their demonstratioa to be held on Boxinr Day. The Australian and New .Zealand Brigade* are U be invited. The Harbour Board intend reqnesting the Government to allow the Colonial Engineer to come to Dunedin to inspect the proposed site of the harbour works. A memorial is in circnlation addressed to Mr. Burns, M.H.R. for Roslyn, protesting against the waste of time in the House by factious opposition, and talking against time.

WANGANUI, Thursday. The body of Captain Watts was found this afternoon on the sea beach, seven miles below Wanganui Heads, much disfigured. One leg is eaten considerably by fish. It waa nearly covered by sand, but is readily 1 recognised by Mr. Cross, the owner of the i • Arthnr Wakefield.'

I DUNEDIN, Thursday. MEMORIAL TO OTAOO MEMBEHS. Messrs. Macandrew and Stout have ex* pressed their disappointment at the condact of the memorislista and the course tbey hare pursued. Mr. Maeandrew attribute* to this the preservation of Otago revenues. He ■aid it would have been better had they allowed their representative* , to resiga months ago rather than to have left them fighting, charged as they now are with having done ao against the opinions of their constituents. It is understood that Mr. Macandrew, with Mr. Stout, contemplate resigning. The Political Committee, last night, carried the following resolution : "That this committee belie Yea the letter of Messrs. Cargill, Fish and others totally misrepresents the public feeling of the people of Dunedia, and of the province generally, and consider it necessary to request the city representatives to meet the constituencies in public meeting assembled in order to satisfy themselves as to the state of public feeling and also to provide for the worst by concerting means for our own protection through the whole of the Provincial Council or otherwise ; but that, in our opinion, before leaving the Assembly they should make it clearly understood that whatever measures affecting the welfare of this people may be agreed to they wi'l aot uaderUke that such measures shall he respected by the peuple of this province. "