TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4117, 29 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, April 28th. A singular and fatal accident happened at the Mount View Lunatic Asylum yesterday. Mrs Galbraith was visiting two imbeciles] children of hers. One, about twelve years old, managed, unobserved, to get hold of a bottle of syrup of chloral, and drank most of it. A doctor was called in, but the child died soon after. All the single girls by the Edwin Fox found almost immediate employment, also the greater portion of the married couples. Tnose remaining will be at once sent up fco the Manawatu district. , Auckland, April 28th. The Provincial Analyst has reported eight samples of milk adulterated with water. At the cricket meeting to-day, it was resolved to, join Dunedin and Christchurch in the invitation of a team of Sydney cricketers at the beginning of next season. Patea, April 2Sth. The hitherto unexplored country northeast of Mount Egnaont has just been penetrated to a distance of forty miles by a party of surveyors, who report the land of excellent quality and leveL Mr Wm. Dale reports sales of cows without calves at £4 17s to £7; two year old steers, £5 7s 6d. A number of saddle hacks brought from £7 to £15 ss. • - In the Wah-oa district the yield of grain averaged fifty bushels to the acre, notwithstanding fully twenty bushels per acre have been destroyed by caterpillars. New Plymouth, April 2Sth. Re the atate of the Lunttio Asylum, the Trustees of the Hospital waited on the Superintendent this morning, and asked if the insane could be removed. Tne Superintendent said he would write to the other Provinces to see if there was room in the Asylums there. . Blbshkim, April 28th. Captain Pierre and several officers of the French, war frigate Infernet, now lying at Picton, entertained at luncheon here to-day by the Superintendent and members of the Provincial Council. ■ Nelsox, April 20th. A new daily morning paper will be started here shortly with the old Examiner type, by Messrs Hankins and Hill, of the West Coast. ! _.■•■■■ • -CHKisTcnußCH,.April '28th. The New Zealand Shipping Company received the following advices from London, dated 20th April, regarding ships from thrt port to the Colony:—"Sailed — RosinDunlop, : and Fletcher, for Auckland • Orianu; and Star of China, for Canterbury ; Woodlark, for Dunedin ; Collingwood and Hannibal, for Wellington ; Countess of Kintore, for Napier and Bluff. Loading — Teviotdale. Knight of Snowdon, Lactura, Aluinbagh. and Cordova. Bishop Redwood was met this afternoon en route for the West Coast at Yaldhurst, eight miles from Christchurch, by a coach' containing all the Roman Catholic clergy of the district, and a large number of the laity on horseback. Traps accompanied him to towa. A procession with brass band, after going round the principal thoroughfares, met him : at the church, and there was a great crowd, including 400 school children. Adlresses were presented by the laity, Hibernian Society, and clergy, to which the Bishop re-: sponded in church. The Bishop, after giving the congregation his blessing, spoke of the. necessity of obtaining clergymen, and this necessitated the accumulation of a large, fund, and it was his intention during his pro- : gress through the diocese to make special ■ collections for this, object. His Benediction was then pronounced. A meeting of the Cathedral Commission this afternoon resolved to invite tenders f6r-: further niasou's work and timber for the roof of the church. . The Governor will leave Christchurch for "• Danedin on Tuesday morning next, and will! proceed by rail as far as the Rangitata, and thence by coach to Ddnediu via Timam. It is His Excellency's intention to re-visit Can-: terbury in November next. He will be present at the Orchestra Society's concert tomorrow. TiMAR.tr. April 28tti >" A. labourer named Robert Fergusson died of suffocation from drink. H** lay -down drunk in a stable, and drank till dead: The hospital is crowded, and large concrete additions are going on. Much sickness was iutroduced.by the immigrant?. It is rumoured that the General Government are about to purchase the Washdyke Meat Preserving Works for a penal establishment for long seutenced prisoners. . The Governor, Lady Normanby, and Suite, Dr Pollen, and the Superintendent, Mr Rolle.-ton, a>-e to arrive here on Tuesday next. X-ynwood House has been secured for : them. '