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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 290, 2 June 1875, Page 6

We notice from our Wellington exchanges that Mr E. J. Wakefield, MJT.R. for Chris f ohnrch East, has attain appeared in the Magistrate's Conrt in Wellington v.n'er a charge of drunkenness, for which he was fined 10s., with the alternative of 24 hours imprisonment.

On the Order Paper we notice that Mr G. F. C. Browno is to move in the Provincial Council :—That n, respec'ful address he presented to His Honor the Superintendent requesting that £IOOO he placed on the Supplementary Estimates, to he applied in subsidising, at the rate of £ for 6, companies formed to prospect for deep leads of gold, under such conditions as mav he from time to time approved of by the Government. The weather on the West Coast has recently been fearfullv boisterous, causing great destruction of life and property. Four fatal accidents are already recorded. Last Friday week, Mr John Rrennan was drowned whilst attempting to cross the Inangahua River. On the same evening. Mr John Reid was killed by a falling tree, and on Saturday morning at 3 o'clock two men named Buckley and Kilev, whilst sleeping in their hut, which was situated about a quarter of a mi'e from the Lyell Junction were overwhelmed hy a landslip.