SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 323, 7 May 1875, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

-ij , (From our own correspondent).' • [The following 'apjpeared in our ? is&ue of Saturday last:—]

Dunedin, Friday, 8 p.-io:

At the Ashburfcon■l-aces, secoridday, Castaway won the Somerset Stakes;'of 50 so vs.; Tommy Dodd the "Publicans' Purse,- of 20 sovs";' and Soimambida the Consolation: By a fire in Herriot Row this morning, an eight-roomed house, uninsured, valued at £BOO, and contents worth £3OO, also uninsured, was destroyed. Could have easily been put out if water had been available. The condition of the water supply is exciting the greatest alarm. There is an entire stoppage during the day. The Corporation is unable to supply people on high levels; There is great grumbling at the allowance of a bucketful a day.

William Crossan, the hueband of tlie wonlari who died from injuries at the hands of a sailor named Crossanj died in the Hospital to-day. The information against Mrs. Powell for perjury was dismissed. The Bench said she left the Court without a stain on her character, and added that she quite acknowledged

the property was Barry's; The Wellington Provincial Council /was opened to-day. The total receipts for the year amount to £118,901, against an estimate of £122,726. Fitzherbeit referred to Major Palmer's report on the Wellington surveys as a proof of the success "of Provincial administration, and expressed his "dissatisfaction with, the General. Government in not pushing oil the roads and railways in Wellington with the same rapidity as in.Hawkea Bay;