TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 121, 5 March 1872, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

-— ■*- PER CHEVILIE'3 TELEGRAM COMPANY, REUTERS AGENTS. DUKEDIN, TCBSDAY, 0 A.M. His Worship the Mayor lias decided that, the Provincial Sunday Observance Ordinance of 1803 is applicable to waggoners travelling on Sundays. He also holds that the old statute passjd in the reign of Charles 11. is still in force. At an influential meeting held yesterdayit was resolved to found a library in connection with the University. James Galbraith, a painter, has died suddenly. The cause of death was the bursting of a blood-vessel. Mr H. S. Fish (the Mayor) has been presented with a service of plate in recognition of the services he has rendered to the public in connection with the cheap gas agitation. Melbourne dates by the Albion are to the 2(ith February. Middling, the mining manager who was committed for trial at Bendigo for the manslaughter of Edward Wonell, has been acquitted. Ilolfe's personalty was sworn under £48,000. In the Majorca claim, stone twenty feet thick has been struck, and is estimated to yield 140ozs to the ton. A still richer reef was found subsequently. .John Hartley, accused of horse-stealing in Otago, was arrested in Melbourne and forwarded to Duncdin by the Albion. Trevanion, a wealthy Bendigo speculator, is charged with an attempted criminal assault upon a child. Endeavours have been made to hush up the matter, but this has been prevented by the Government. Messrs Vogel and Webb have been introduced to the Governor, who gave a grand ball in honour of their visit. LATEST. Arrived.—Clara Ellen, from Cardiff. The Governor is expected in Dunedin about the end of the present week. The Government have agreed to construct a sludge-channel at Naseby.