LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 16, 19 January 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Oamaru, Monday. A sad accident occurred in the Waitaki river yesterday, as Jennie Audersro, magicienne, and troupe were eros ing to tbe Canterbury side. The male members of the party walked across the bridge, but an express containing Jenny Anderson and all the properties attempted to ford the river above the bridge, piloted by a ferryman. The vehicle got into deep water aH'l capßtzed. The driver • was washed to a pile of the b'idgo and whs ' rescued. Miss Anderson (Mrs Mo 1 tun) was twice grasped while floating under tho bridge bu- her cloihinar pave way. An inquest vt»s htld todiy. Everything belonging to the troupe was lost in tho river, box continuing money, &c. The express horse and two perform »g dogs belonging to the troupe were drowned. General feeling here that crossing the river except in a ferry boat or by bridge, ihould be at once prohibited. Chbistchpech, Tuesday. The Jockey Clu»> have unanimously endorsed t!ie action of the Dunedin Jocko*' Club in the itisqualification of Mabel and Andrew Mitchell, tbe jockey who rode her, in the St. Andrew's Handicap. At the nomination, Kaiapoi District, for on Saturday last, the Hon C. C. Bowen received 44 votes, and Mr Besiwick 30 votes. .The polling takf s place on the 22nd instant. Harvest operations are in full swing, and the weather is very favorable. Special reports obtained by the Ly Helton limes from all d stricts show that the average yield will be larger than for many years past. Oats will preponderate. Auckland, Saturday. Two boys bathing in a water hole at Hiverhead, got out of their depth and were drowned. Gbahamstown, Monday. On Saturday afternoon whilst the volunteers were firing at the Parawai rifle range, Sergt Cleary, one of the markers, was shot, the bill striking him on the ehouldt-r blnde and coming out ot the fleshy part of the right arm, The wound is not considered dangerous bnt it is very painful Cleary was out registering a shot and cleaning the target, bat from some cause or other the danger flag was not observed from the firinggpoint. The wounded man was brought dowa the creek in a boat and taken to the hospital Wellington, Tuesday. Arrived: Albion, from Ly Helton,, as 8.33 a.m. Sailed : Wellington, with the San Francisco outward mail, and the Southern and Wellington representatives for the prize iirine. We (Press Agency) have it on undoubted authority that there has been a gigantic conspiracy in Rusiia, although officially denied. It was intended to assassinate the Governors of fourteen provinces, and some of the beat families in the country are implicated. Toung ladies have been arrested and sent to Siberia, and tha populations of two whole villages have been also sent there.