TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 261, 29 September 1874, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from oue own correspondent.]

DUNEDIN.

Saturday, Ip.m. The Albion arrived at the Bluff to-day. CABLE TELEGRAMS! London, September 19. Wool prices continue firm. The Yorkshire Handicap was won by Mr Evness’ Louisa. Sir George Berkeley’s appointment as Governor of Western Australia is contradicted. New York, September 16, A sanguinary disturbance has occurred at New Orleans. The white population ousted Governor Kellog, and installed a new Governor. The President upheld Kellog, and ordered the rioters to disperse. September 18. The insurgents in New Orleans submitted, and Kellog has been reinstated.

Monday, 4.30 p.m: At a meeting of the Harbour Board, it was resolved to allow Mr J. L. Gillies, the Secretary, to keep his Provincial political position, reserving the right, however, to require him to give up if the work necessitated it. The Church of England Synod meets on Wednesday morning. Findlay and Co.’s timber yard and sawmill had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Saturday. The ignition of some bag’s of lime was the cause. The enquiry into the recent stranding of the steamer Easby off Waipapapa Point, has been adjourned. Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane, Auckland, owners of the barque Alice 'Cameron, 156 days out from Manilla to Sydney, have claimed her insurance policy of L.3000 in the Victoria Company. The Victoria had re-insured her in the New Zealand, South British, National, Standard, and. National South Australian for L.500 each.

. ■«. A on _ XUiiOUAXj U»O\J H.lLl, Heavy rain has fallen for the past three days, and some of the suburban townships and the neighbourhood of the Gasworks are much flooded. Intelligence was received yesterday that a vessel called the Garibaldi, bound from Lyttelton to Waitara, has been lost. She was insured in the Standard for L.350, South British L.500, National L.300. The British expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus has arrived at Lyttelton. Some fishermen yesterday found the body of a man off Observation Point, near Port Chalmers. The body had evidently been a long time in the water. Mr Withey, who officiated as Deacon at Cromwell for some time, will be admitted to the priesthood at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday next.

The Chronicle says every male resident in Naseby followed the corpse of Dr Dick to the grave, The Masons, Oddfellows, and members of the Hibernian Society attended in their office decorations. ‘ ‘ The gloom thrown over the town since Monday hns been so spontaneous and general as to evidence to anyone how deeply the late doctor had rooted himself in the affections of the people. His successor will have no easy task before him, to please those accustomed to the skill and kindness of Dr Dick. The unanimous wish of the public that a public monument should be erected is met by the appointment of a Committee of ten, at the suggestion of his Worship, the Mayor, who will receive the donations.” Many will no doubt be interested to bear what has become of the submarine boat which, in its day, was the topic of much discussion. It occupied the attention of that grave and reverend body—the Otago institute—where for a while moa bones were shelved as the leading question ; it excited the imaginations of sanguine capitalists, "whose great expectations were doomed to disappointment; it was the subject of certain interesting experiments in Dunedin Bay, causing a sensation, and very nearly an inquest ; but it never went to the Molyneux. It has been separated into parts, and lies near the Mbany-street Railway Station, and observing immigrants mistake it for a patent marine boiler. J9u7b/ 'Timca,