Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown: March 29, 1900. LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Lake County Press, Issue 904, 29 March 1900, Page 4

Lake County Press . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown: March 29, 1900. LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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[Special—own correspondent.] Dunedin, This Diy. Government have chartered another vessel to convey produce to South Africa, The 45th case of plague has been reported from Sydney. The Colonial Bank buildings in the heart of Dunedin, has been purchased from Bank N.Z. by a com pan v at £28,000 Bishop Verdon has sailed for Bluff. He will be acci rJed a procession on his arrival here from Home. The coasting steamer Glenelg, Melbourne to Gippsland,. has been wrecked. The steward arrived at Lake Tyeis too exhausted to give details. It is supposed that the remainder of the crew have been drowned. Later details report a loss of 30 lives and only 3 survivors. It was a dark dirty night. Kaffirs are digging trenches aro.und Johannesburg. General Joubert is at Pretoria. The Basutos are replacing the railway north of Bloemfontein. A troop-train overturned ([over an embankment. Nine soldiers were injured, and many had miraculous escapes. The Transvaal Telegraph states that 20,00.0 Free Staters are guarding nine passes in the Drakensberg mountaius. Heavy rains have fallen throughout South Africa, and camps have been converted into swamp 3. TAHUNA PARK TROTTING RACES. Advance Handicap, Doreen ; dividend, £SO 10s. St. Clair Pony Handicap, Little Jane; dividend £4 12s. Trial Handicap, Carrick ; dividend £2. Telegraph Handicap, Cling ; dividend £2 2. Disposal, The Laird ; dividend £9 4s. Telephone Handicap, Booby ; dividend, £1 14s. Ivanhoe Handicap, Flo ver Girl ; dividand, £lO 14s. Pony Handicap, Jim ; dividend, £4 lGs. Farewell Handicap, Young Burlington ; dividend, £ls Bs.