TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 420, 16 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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Dunedin, Oct. 16,

The Union Company’s steamship Bruce ran ashore near the Heads at daylight this morning, and immediately lilled. She canted to seaward, her head being to the southward. It is probable she will be a total wreck. The passengers and crew are safely landed. At a special meeting of the City Council this afternoon, in re the gas works, it was unanimously agreed to accept the offer of Mr Hankey, the proprietor, to sell at £43,500, payable by the Corporation on 6 per cent debentures at par, the delivery of the works to be given on the Ist May, 1876.

A man, named Gregg, was committed for trial to-day for rape on a girl named Helen Staines. She was distantly related to him. The Times, of yesterday, adverts to the condeming as uuseaworthy the ship Don Juan by a surveyor sent from Wellington, and thinks some reparation should be made to the men sent to Napier gaol for refusing to go from Napier to Dunedin in her. The ai’titlc is especially severe on Capt. Fairchild, concluding thus;—“We really don’t like to say what Capt. Fairchild deserves.” It appears Fairchild said, in his evidence, at Napier, that although the vessel ought never to have left Paget Sound, yet having been supplied with an engine at Napier to work two pumps, she was, in his opinion, quite fit to go to Dunedin. More than half the crew accordingly went in her to Port Chalmers, where she arrived safely, after a six days’ passage. The others were sent to gaol for refusing duty.

Greymuuth, Oct 16. The Maori sailed at 10.30 for the Bluff and Dunedin, with a cargo of coal, coke, two thousand fire bricks, and a number of passengers.

Wellington, Oct. 16. The Abolition Bill received the Governor’s assent yesterday.

[Per Press Agency.) Auckland, Oct 15. The Kaipara railway is completed, and only awaits Mr Passmore’s arrival to open it.

New ‘Plymouth, October 15. A man numed Brady 101 l down dead ;il his own door 11ns morning. Messrs Brogden’s bail wag a great success last night. The train of nine carriages crowded with people, was iarming all day yesterday between Waitara and New Plymouth. Wanganui, October 15. A curious bitch legat'd mg the chairmanship of the Wanganui Highway Board, has occurred. Mr Morgan, chairman of the previous Board, claimed that, under the Highway Act, he is still chairman. The matter was referred to the Board’s solicitor, who took the same view. The Board did not agree with this, and elected Mr Fleetwood. Mr Morgan will obtain another legal opinion and fight it out, to prove to the faultiuess of the Act. Considerable interest has been created in the subject generally. It is believed that, by the wording of the Act, it is not necessary to gazette a reelected warden nor elect a chairman, as the Act says he shall hold office until he resign, cease to be warden, or die, Timaru, October 15. The school committees throughout South Canterbury are up in arms against the Provincial Minister of Education. Besolu tious have been passed endorsing the action of the Timaru committee in resisting him, It is rumored here that Mr W. S. Moorhouse will probably contest Gladstone with Mr G. B. Parker.