TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 136, 18 June 1872, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from our own correspondent.] ■ ; DUNEDIN, . TUESDAY, 9 A..M. j; Sir David Monro's majority over the total | number of votes polled by the other five j 1 candidates, according to the official declara- 1 tion, is ninety-four. i Two seamen, named Lough and Ward, who ' left the ship Medea on Thursday morning for |' Port Chalmers, in one of the ship's boats, are supposed to be drowned ; the boat hav- ' ing since been found bottom up. Fiji news, brought by the Kenilworth to Auckland, states that a horrible scene oc- ' curred attlie execution of a murderer named Franks. Tne hangman had i:i some manner I bungled the knot; and although the drop was ; ' six feet, Franks, after hanging for several | ! minutes, began first to groan, and then to shriek,—amidst the fainting of spectators, j' He was cut down, and lias recovered. His I' sentence has since been commuted to imprisonment for life. The Suez mail arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Wobnesday, the 12th. The tele- ' grams contain news of a fearful inundation', at Jellow, in the Madras Presidency : and ' also of a great fire at Yeddo, the capital of |' Japan. By the former disaster, one thou- ! sand lives were lost, and thirteen thousand people rendered homeless ; and by the latter twenty-one thousand persons were burned out, and 350 killed. The lire extended over j two and a half square miles of the city.