TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 267, 22 December 1874, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[prom our own correspondent.} DUNEDIN. Monday, 11 a.m. The Northern coach driven by Ned Devine, met with an accident on Friday morning near Blueskin. Some bags lying on the road frightened the horses, which commenced plunging and eventually upset the coach. Some of the passengers were bruised and cut, but none were seriously injured. A serious accident-.occurred on Saturday in Princes-street. A horse attached to a spring-cart bolted, and the driver was thrown out, and had some of his ribs broken and his shoulder dislocated. A man named Hartley ran along the pavement with the idea of catching the reins, but the cart-wheel,caught a lamp-post, breaking it, and this fell on Hartley's leg, breaking it in two places. Both sufferers were sent to the Hospital. One of the newly-erected immigrants' cottages at Kensington was burned down on Saturday afternoon. The only person in the house at the time was a litte girl eight years old, and she was saved with difficulty. An endeavour is being made to get the Octagon reserve on which to erect Supreme Court buildings. The old Court site is proposed to be given in exchange. •>. | ''On Saturday morning at lnvercargill, Judge Chapman sentenced John Brennan, who pleaded guilty of attempting to murder the'girl Mary Hall, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. ; - The Artillery fired on Friday morning to qualify for tha Representative firing. The following are the scores:—Lieutenant Muir, 82; Gunner Curie, 81; Gunner T. Muir, ,69. ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION. The Albion arrived at the Bluff on Sunday with the English mail. The following are among the items of'news she brings : Melbourne, December 13. Offwall, a defaulter in the Land Department, has been arrested at Singapore. Sullivan, the murderer, has been arrested in Victoria under the Criminal Influx Act, and will in all probability be shipped off to New Zealand again. The transit of Venus was seen to great advantage in Victoria and New South Wales. London, December 8. The wool sales closed with increasing weakness in quotations, showing a decline on September rate of Id to 2d per lb. for faulty sorts. Sound fleeces remain comparatively firm. A telegram to the New Zealand Company says the sales closed flatly. Nearly all descriptions have declined Id, l|d, or 2d. * Tuesday, 10 a.m. The five representatives from the Dunedin district, entitled to compete at the Colonial firing, and whose passages are paid by Government, are (withscores): —Sub-Lieutenant M'Kenzie, 94; Lieutenant Marshall, 92 ; Sub-Lieutenant Wilson, 91; Sergeant Maclaren, 90 ; Captain Goldie, 88. Twelve altogether have qualified in the Province. Mr Charles Begg, the pianoforte maker, died yesterday, after a lingering illness.