DIRECT TELEGRAMS.

Lake County Press, Volume VII, Issue 386, 3 October 1878, Page 3

DIRECT TELEGRAMS.

(Feomjoue Own Correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday Evening. Through railway traffic between Dune* din to Christchurch is re-estafelished. The floods about Balclutha are scarcely abated at all. The warm weather apparently keeping the rivers up. Distress and danger are indescribable and many narrow escapes from drowning, are reported. There have been no floods either on the Taieri or in Dunedin. A deputation consisting of Bastings' Pyke, Driver, J. C, Brown, DeLatour Thomson, Green, Murray, and Manders to-day interviewed Macandrew, and asked the Government to grant special aid to the Counties of Vincent and Tuapeka to repair damage by flood, estimated in round numbers to equal £40,000. Macandrew said the object was reasonable, and he sympathised with it. It would be considered by the Cabinet, and he would then give them all the support in his power. Owing to floods all grain transactions are suspended. Ship Invercargill arrived from Glasgow to-day, with 300 immigrants. In the House the Judicial Commission Bill has been discussed, was lost by 39 to At Oamaro thirty people have been severely poisoned through eating brawn bought of a local butcher. An analysis is being made. A man was buried by a fall of earth in a sewer in Hope Street, but was got out alive after two hours. Afire at Napier Spit destroyed two stores, insured for £l,lOO. Dr Hector reports that an analysis of ore from L&ngdon's near Greymouth, shows it to be antimony sulphate, with 84oz of gold and 360z. of silver to tie ton. Considerable excitement thereat. The Harbor Board have paid Proudfoot £43,000 and taken over his contracts. Government have decided to open 18,000 acres on Moutero Run shortly. Cable communication is interrupted on the land line. Queenstown, Oct. 3 (2 p.m.) Clouds are hanging about, and there is a slight rainfall. The weather is unsettled, but no danger is anticipated at {.resent

| Lake is going down about four inches in I twelve hoursMoke creek and Skipper's tracks are greatly damaged by slips. Southberg's stables at Skippers are carried into creek and the house smothered. The family barely escaped with their lives. The quartz machinery so far as is known, is. ' comparatively uninjured.