TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
NASEBY. Monday. Hash expected to the Deep Stream, — two men are reported to have got thirty ounces of gold in six weeks. Tuesday, 11 a.m. Report of a find of gold in the Deep Stream is true. Mi John Fen wick, of Hamilton, has gone over to start a store. DUNEDIN. Tuesday,. 11.20 a.m. Ship William Davie, from Glasgow,— 87 days' passage,—-has arrived. Ex-Bishop J-enner declines to recognise the authority of the resolutions of the General Synod, and states his intention of employing all lawful p'eans in his power to obtain possession of his rights and privileges, to which he is entitle! by his consecration to the See of Dune tin, which are now unjustly and violently withheld from him.
ifv Robert J/iller, a young man, about I 25 years of age, ole of the proprietors of j the Oamaru Times, shot himself in the! press-room of that office on Saturday,—hei died instantly. Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." The deceased was very generally respected, and had only been connected with the Times about a year. My -1/ c Leod's tender for the construction of the Clutha section of the Southern Trunk Railway has been accepted. It is said to be £5,000 below the Engineers' estimate. In the General Assembly, Mr Waterhouse introduces a Bill to legalise marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. Government bring down Education Bill to-day. Mr Vogel brings with him from England contractors and engineers. Mr Brogden, the great railway contractor, and owner of coal and iron mines.— with whom Vogel has been in treaty for the construction of railways and other public works in this colony,—will visit New Zealand shortly. The Catholics of Wellington have adopted the Otago petition to Parliament against secular education. Te Kooti's trail is lost. Treece's force is scouring the bush between Lake Waikaremoana and Popiuie (?) The publication of the "Hansard" Parliamentary Reports is temporarily suspended, owing to the compositors in the Government Printing Office having struck for higher wages. JMiey demand Is 6d per thousand, —they are offered Is 3d.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 93, 22 August 1871, Page 5
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