TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 677, 9 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

o London, Maecii 17. In the Mount and Morris ease the judgement of the Supreme Court in Victoria has been reversed, and the appeal allowed. The annual boat race between the crews representing Oxford and Cambridge took place to-day over the usual course on the Thames, from Putney to Mortlake, and resulted in a victory for Oxford by four lengths. The Grand National has been won by Pathfinder. The Prince of Wales contemplates paying a visite to India during the cool season. The strike of colliers at Dewsbury is settled. The perfumery manufactory of Eugeuo Rimmel, in the Strand has been consumed by fire. John Mitchell, lately twice elected as member for Tipperary, is dead.

(Abridged from Tuapeka Times.) The remains of Judge (dray were interred in the Southern Cemetery this afternoon. The request of the Mayor that, from two o’clock till after the funeral, business should be entirely suspended was universally complied with. From the Shamrock Hotel, (the starting point of the cortege) to the south end of the town, the streets were lined with people; and opposite the university buildings, where the puplic bodies assembled, at three o’clock, there were nearly 2000 peoplecongregated. At three o’clock, the cortege left the Shamrock Hotel, wore the body had lain sinceits arrival in town yesterday, evening. It was viewed by several hundreds of persons. The procession reached the Southern Cemetery a little before tour o’cl ick. The interment took place in the Church of England portion of the Cemetery where there were assembled at least loriOpcople, The coffin boro the simple inscription— “Wilson Gray’ late District Judge, died at Lawrence, April 4th, 1875, aged 62. The countrymen of the deceased wore in their coat button-holes small piece of green ribbon. The various church bells were rung during the progress of theprooession, which was quite a quarter of a mile in length.

("From the Cromwell Argus) Messrs James and S Fraser with a wages man named Kenneth M ‘Clay work a sluicing claim in Bracken’s Gully. Tho last washup took place last Christmas since when they have been sluicing. On Saturday last they bad the water turned off all day, as they were cleaning up some bottom to bring tho head of tho sluice nearer to the face. They usually leave a heavy body of water running through the sluice to prevent robbery ; but this night thev omited to do so. On Sunday morning Mr S. Fraser we»t down to look at the paddock and found tho paving of the sluice taken up for some distance from the head, and the gold, estimated at 40 to 50 ounces, abstracted. The alarm was given, and every search for footprints, Ac., was made, hut as tho weather lias been dry lately no marks nould ho found M'Clny came down and gave information to tho police, and Sergeant Hunt went up to the gully and will remain there to-night (Sunday). A large number of Chinese are working in the gully, also a few Europeans. No clue has up to this moment been obtained to tho culprit.