TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 212, 12 February 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency.') Wellington, February 11. A royal commission, consisting of Dr Johnston, provincial surgeon and health officer; the Under-Secretary, Mr Cooper, Mr Seed, the Secretary of Customs ; is now sitting to enquire into the conditions under which the Berar immigrants embarked, and the outbreak of disease amongst them. Another death of a little girl has occurred at the quarantine station from the after effects of scarlatina. There are still eighty people detained on the island, Dunedin, February 11. At the inquest on the bodies of the men killed in the Chain Hill tunnel yesterday a verdict of accidental death was returned. The jury recommended that the tunnel be worked with top heading instead of as hitherto. The City Council last night adopted Mr Reeves’ motion that in the event of no satisfactory arrangements to purchase the gas works being arrived at before April, tenders be called for the erection of city gas works. It was agreed to lease the southern part of Princes street for twenty-one years. Invercargill, February 11. At the races there was a fair attendance, and the racing exceeded expectation. MAIDEN PLATE. Digger 1 Virago 2 Young Mahratta 3 A protest was entered against Digger by the owner of Virago on the ground that he had won public money above the amount stipulated in the rules. PUBLICANS’ PURSE. Atlas 1 Little Dan 2 Manotto 3 LADIES’ PURSE. Unknown 1 Young Leamington 2 Atlanta 3 DISTRICT HANDICAP. Kuriwao ... ... ... ... 1 Taffrail 2 Lyndon 3 COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ STAKES. Sir Tatton 1 Little Dan 2 Unknown 3

THIS DA TS TELEGRAMS. Grahamstown, February 12. Sir D. McLean and the Hon Dr Pollen arrived here per Luna. The Ministers proceed to Ohinemuri to complete arrangements for opening Ohinemuri. It is reported that everything is favorable for the completion of the arrangements. f Grahamstown, February 12. ' Measles prevalent, and many adults are being attacked. At the end of the wharf extension, 1500 feet from shore, a boulder was picked up studded with specs of gold, [FROM OUR WELLINGTON CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, February 12. The Trust, Loan and Investment Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent for the year. There is another vacancy in the City Council, Barrett, the councillor for Thorndon ward, having resigned, as he is going home. The Post complains strongly of the favoritism shown by the Government in pushing on the Hawke’s Bay railways before most of the Wellington. The former will have sixty miles open in a few months, to the latter’s eight miles. Clark’s lecture on “Dickens” last night caused a perfect furore.