TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 823, 25 January 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(from opr correspondent.) Dunedin, January 23th. The nreraises of Baberts, watch-maker, Parker’s Registry Office, A 1. Hotel, and Bath’s drapery shop. Casscl-street, Christchurch were burned down this morning, and owing to tho absence of tbe Superintendent Harris, the fire brigade became thoroughly disorganised, and the water supply gave out four times. The losses are estimated at L 20.000, while Insurances reach rn in:_n. —;—;„„1 T~ n , illl.ie,,— J1.11H.11X.1 being the i'hcemx, hi'lU * : ijOmion and Glohe, L 1950 ; National, L 1925, and tho South British, LI9OO. It has beer, raining at Christchurch during the past forty-eiaht hours, so that the Australian Cricket Match could not bo proceeded with. . The Star’s Wellington correspondent telegraphs that Stout will probably join the Ministrv on the retirement of Larnaoh. The Wellington Post learns that Parliament will not meet before July. A bullock driver, named Hutt, while attempting to pass from one carriage to another on the Opapa Railway, fell between j tbe rails- -his head was severed into two pieces, tbe back half of the skull hanging I to tho other portion by only a piece of skin. 1 The Olntha, Railway bridge is completed. | Convers and Carruthers were conveyed in a j special train from Christchurch to Oamaru,

a distance of ISO miles in five hours with an engine just imported. Conyers is satisfied that the time will bo greatly improved upon. < The Zealandia, with the English and American mails, has arrived at Auckland to day, being four days three hours in advance of contract time. WAR NEWS. The latest war news is to January 21. Reuter’s message announces that the Russian forces have arrived before Adrianopla. J. urkiuli Garrison evacuated the lona, retiring towards Constantinople. The Sultan has called out every man capable of bearing arms for military service to defend the lines of Tchekmedcha. There is a general rising in Thessaly,