LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1703, 19 January 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

• [an&io-atjstkaxian press telegraph AGENCY.] Reefion, Jan. 17. One hundred and forty tons of stone from the Invincible Company has yielded 131oz Iclwt of retorted gold. A dividend will be declared. The Road Board has decided to expend LIOO pri the erection of a bridge, over the left branch of the Inangahua. Anderson's shaft is down 160 ft. Rich stone has been struck. Mr Hankiri reports Anderson ? s, 63 j Invincible, 4a ; Fiery Croas, L 2 5s ; Juat in Time, 133 6d per scrip; Alexaudra, LB6O ; Prospectors (Italian Gully), L2OO. Dtjnedin, Jan. 17. The Surat inquiry i 3 concluded. Mr Booth's .evidence is corroborative of the former witnesses. Mr Stout addressed the Bench . for Captain Johrston. He objected to the jurisdiction of the Court, and said that it had not been proved that drunkenness on the officers' part had led to the accident. Mr Haggitt, on behalf of the Customs, said that incompetency had been fully proved. The Bench reserved their decision till Wednesday. At the Synod, last night, it was resolved to form a committee to inquire into the queation of forming a union of North and South Presbyterian Churches. Wellington, Jan. 17. In the Wellington and Napier cricket match, Wellington went put in its first innings for 88. The Hon. Donald M'Lean.has succeeded in effecting the purchase of 22,500 acres of land in th 6 Horowhenua district, and has settled a dispute amongst the tribes there.