BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2910, 17 June 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from greville’s telegram company, REUTER’S agents.) Roxburgh, June 17. The Queenstown and Frankton mails, for Dunedin, were picked up floating in the river by the dredgers. The Postmaster has taken charge of them. There have been severe frosts, and the river is falling. Gkkymouth, June 15. Mace’s crushing on Shiel’s line of reef at Inangahua yielded 985 ounces of gold from 600 tons of stone. Two miners named Cornelius Warren and John Dempster have been smothered in a claim. Westport, June 15. A man named Brees or Burrows was drowned near Inangahua Landing, on his way from Blenheim to Reeftown. Wellington, June 17. On Saturday a rumor got abroad of a case of small-pox having occurred at the Te Aro end of the town. Inquiry showed tnat Mr Kaye, recently mail agent on boara the Nebraska, had been attacked with small-pox in a mild form. The Government sent Dr Johnston, the Health Officer, to visit Mr Kaye, and he advised his removal to the Quarantine Ground. The patient and two armed constabulary were sent off, the patient acquiesing in his removal Had it been otherwise, in the absence of a Public Health Act, he must have remained at his residence, M|hile the disease lasted. The Government have instructed the Board of Health at Auckland to take precautions against the introduction of small-pox in vessels from San Francisco. The mail bags are to be fumigated.