TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 304, 8 September 1875, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[from our own correspondent.) ♦ ■ ... D U N E D I N. Tuesday, 7.45 p.m. The Times to-day uses exceedingly strong language in a sub-leader, condemning the ru • mored prospective appointment of Edward M'Glashan as Commissioner of Waste Landa in Otago. The Prince of Wales Hotel, Invercargill, had a nsrrow escape from being burned down early on Saturday morning. A discharged barman is arrested on suspicion of incendiarism. What was very near proving a fataT;accident occurred at Jetty-street railway crossing through a carter not having heard the warning whistle of the Caversham 7.45 a.m. train. He drove his dray right on the line as the train was approaching. The horse managed to cross, but the dray was smashed by the collision which occurred. The man was pitched on to the jetty, but is not hurt, and the horse escaped with some bruises. The body of a man was found ih the bush near Blueskin on Sunday, very much decomposed. Deceased is supposed to be an old pensioner of the 71st Regiment, named Dally, aged about 60, and to have died through exposure and want of nourishment. A meeting of the shareholders of the Standard Insurance Company, to consider the third half-yearly report, was held yesterday. The balance-sheet for half-year gives the premiums at £23,713 ; losses and charges at £11,860 ; leaving a net balance of £11,844. A fire broke out in the Phoenix Bond in Hope-street on Saturday night, a iew minutes after eleven o'clock. The Bond is occupied by Henderson, Law, & Co., merchants, and a firm of wool importers. The latter estimate the value of their goods destroyed at £2OOO, and are insured for £750 in the Royal and £750 in the London, Liver* pool, and Globe. Henderson, law, and <Ja.

w&mtitt their IbßSat £?000, which ia fully insured, but the'particutors of the insurance are not published. ■ : ■ <v-. . •A human skeleton was found yesterday in the bush about a mile on the Dunedin side of Sawyer's Bay by a little girl. It had evidently.lain where found for many years. 'Auckland'telegrams state that "Edward Thomas,, lessee of a battery at Coromandel, has. been fined £4OO for a breach of the quartz-crushing regulations by failing to «n'ter the quantity of quartz brought for crashing, i The man who brought the quartz forcrushing, and it is stole it, was fined. £2OO. f" PARLIAMENTARY. s.".</. Brown moved the adjournment of the.debate until the Ministry brought down their Board of Works Bill. Brown's amendment was lost by 37 to 10. Major Atkinson has announced his intention to reply on Tuesday. The Bill was ordered to be committed that day, and the House adjourned. '.The Time* correspondent says it is expected that the new Government Bills will be printed to-day. tt is rumored that each Board of Works is to have a nominated Pre•ident, with long tenure of office. LA T E S T; •A fatal accident occurred this afternoon. As Steadman's West Taieri coach was passing the Saddle Hill toll-bar, one of the horses shied, and toppled the coach over twenty feet of a bank. The driver, Henry Steadman, received •erious internal injuries, and died at 2 p.m. were no passengers. —————— " " {FROST A COBREStO^DENT.) • •.-.'. . Weilinqtok , 6th Sept., 11,15 a.m, :MrT. L. Shepherd's River Pollution Bill met with-strong opposition from.the .squatting party in the Legislative Council, headed by the Hon. Matthew Holmes. It was, however, carried by a : majority of fivev The measure will meet with strong opposition in Goldfields Committee, Tj'uttt is hoped it will get through. The Abolition party are determined to pass the Bill through this session.