SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2199, 15 November 1875, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

(PEE PBESS AGENCY.)

Weihngion, Saturday.

Mr Qillon, hitherto editor of the Post, hasto-daymadeanofferto purchase the. plant and goodwill of the Tribune. The offer will be open until ten o'clock on Monday morning. If not accepted, Mr Gillon says he intends starting a third evening paper. '; • : . " '

.PaimebstoitNobth, Saturday. A man, while looking for cattle yesterday, on the south side of the Manawatu Biyer, in a dense bush saw a sailor's box lodged in the branches of a large rata tree, 20 feet from the ground..; He climbed up the tree, opened the box, and saw a human skeleton wrapped in pieces of blanket;

..' OflßisiCHraoH, Sunday. Mr W. B. Toswill addressed the Coleridge electors last night. He declared, himself in favour of the North and Middle Islands being made two provinces with separate legislatures and a federal Government for purely national affairs. —Entries for the Derby of 1877 closed last night. There are 35 entries, including 8 by Mr Kedwood, 5 by Mr Nosworthy, and some by Messrs Watt, Dodson, Walters, and Campbell received.