TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 376, 26 August 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency, ) ♦ THIS HAY’S TELEGRAMS. Dunedin, August 26. Alexander Jeffrey, in the Corporation employ, was sent up to the waterworks main. He has been since found in the stream of the Water of Leith. It is supposed he was washed down from the waterworks. Wellington, August 26. Arrived—The Ladybird, from Lyttelton. Wanganui, August 26. A meeting to consider the Government proposals was held at Marton last night. A resolution in favor of the measures was carried unanimously. A copy of the resolution is to be forwarded to the Premier and the member for the district. Auckland, August 25. The Dover Castle has been placed in quarantine in consequence of nineteen cases of scarlatina, which occurred during the voyage. The last one was convalescent yesterday. Mr James Stewart, Government Engineer, has returned from inspecting the Kaipara railway. He reports that at least a month will be required in bringing the work to a sufficiently advanced state to open for traffic. A Poverty Bay telegram states that G. G. Mill, for many years confidential clerk of. Captain Read, disappeared on Tuesday afternoon. Letters were found in Wayllis’ boat, asking Mr Read to take care of his children, and saying that suicide was contemplated. The police are dragging the river, but the body has not yet been found. A young man named Carl Carson, of Auckland, left Gisborne on Saturday in a whale boat for Matira, to take charge of a store there. A telegram has been received by the police, stating that the boat had upset at Matira, and Carl Carson was drowned. The body is not yet recovered, Wellington, August 25. A meeting of the principal members of the Opposition was held in the Provincial Building this morning, to consider what steps are to be taken upon the second reading of the Abolition Bill. It was decided that no division should be forced by the Opposition, and if the Government called for one, those who were in favour of the second reading, but no further, could record their votes accordingly, and those absolutely opposed to the Bill will go into the lobby.