GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 183, 13 May 1873, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL. Dr Carr has been lecturing on teetotali in Nelson.

The journeyman tailors of Wellington on strike.

Things at Reefton are reported to be loot ing very dull. Steps are being taken to establish a bottl factory in Dunedin.

There has been a groat panic in minii stock at Sandhurst.

Governor Bowen is obtaining great po] larity in Melbourne. Five cases of murder were to be tried the Bathurst Assizes.

Several deaths from typhoid fever hav; occurred in Wellington. Sugar-beet has been successfully grown, J poor soil even, at Riverton. The Waikouaiti district is to be throti open for pheasant shooting. The discovery of rock salt at Appin, Nei South Wales, is reported. There are now five sawmills actively j work in the Tapanui district. ''"" The library of the Wellington Gaol cob tains more than 400 volumes.

Over one hundred appeals have been lodgi against the assessment at Queenstown. An undoubted shoal of salmon has bet seen in the Derwent river, Tasmania.

A shock of earthquake near Melbourne cs the 24th ult. lasted twenty seconds. Wanganui people are agitating strongly fg separation from the Province of Wellington, A magnificent present has been sent t: Prince Bismarck by the Germans in Victoria,

The official returns show that there an now more than 18,000,000 aheep in Nr South Wales.

In Auckland, a boy has been poisoned oj a chemist wrongly making up a prescription given for whooping-cough. Several large failures are said to be imminent in Sydney, occasioned by imprudent mining speculation. Efforts are being made on behalf of P* edin capitalists to amalgamate several of ft large Blue Spur claims. Near Clunes recently, a man stuck up three women in a vehicle. They courageously re, sisted, and the mm decamped. There is now in the Thames Hospital a man who fought in the 42nd Highlanders (the Black Watch) at the Battle of Waterloo. Two members of a Citholic Church near Sydney were publicly excommunicated on a recent Sunday for marrying during Lent. The Duke of Genoa, nephew of the King of Italy, has arrived in Melbourne by the Italian frigate Garibaldi, which is on a cruise, An Adelaide telegram says upwards oi 6000 messages have been transmitted overland and by cable to London since the line was opened. During the month of April the Coromandel gold-field yielded 1172 oz of gold from 63? tons of stone. The Caledonian at the Thames gave 232 oz from 175 tons of stone. The Lawrence Town Council talks about borrowing £SOOO, to be expended in waterworks, «ftc. Fortunate citizens, indeed, to be blessed with a go-ahead Council.

During the last financial year, the Government contributed £15,970 9s. 10d., and the various districts £10,869 7s. 3d., towards the maintenance of the public schools of Otago, A Sydney telegram says a white woman, oft. high, has been found among the Iveppel Bay natives. She cannot speak English, and is supposed to be the survivor of the ship wrecked in 1857.

A Communist prisoner escaped from the Ornie, a French transport ship which recently put into Melbourne short of provisions. The authorities were debarred by the extradition treaty from arresting him, the prisoner having made his escape into British territory, LATE CABLE TELEGRAMS. Spain is in a deplorable state. Moneys wanted, the Government coffers being einp;"', The Pope has recovered from his latecw gerous illness, but his present exact condition is kept a secret. The Claimant is on his trial for perjury, &>c. Two hundred witnesses are present for the prosecution. News has been received of the safety™ Sir S. Baker's expedition, sent to the relief of Dr Livingstone. The Prince of Wales has been installed as Grand Master of the United Masonic Knight Templars of England and Ireland. The Emperor of Germany, Prince Bis* marck, and Count Molkte were to visit the Czar of Russia at the end of April.

The city of San Salvador, Guatemala, in South America, has been destroyed by at earthquake. Eight hundred persons were killed, and twelve million dollars worth of property destroyed. The Khan of Khiva has beheaded his Prime Minister, and imprisoned his relations. The Russian campaign against the KM vans M* commenced. Russian movements continue to cause much irritation in England. Terrible riots have taken place at Frank fort, in Maine, in consequence of an advance in the price of beer. Sixteen breweries were sacked by the mob. The troops were called out, and fired on the people, killing twelve and wounding thirty-seven. One hundred and twenty were arrested.