YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 948, 9 July 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submarine cable, per press AGENCY.[ AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, July 6. Market quotations : —Case brandy, 31s 3d to 31s 6d; quarters, £8 9s to £9 ; kerosene, 2s 3d ; rice, £2O to £2l ; flour, wheat, and oats are unchanged ; Barrett’s twist, Is 5d ; black swan, Is sd; sugar, unchanged; Belmont sperms, lOfd. Melbourne, July 6. Arrived—Albion. Sailed —Tararua. INTER? RO VINCI AL. [per press agency.] Suicide at Roxburgh. Auckland, July 8. The degree of Bachelor of Arts will be publicly presented to Miss Edgar, in the Choral Hall, by Mr Lusk, M.H.R.

At St. Andrew’s last evening, the Rev. D. Bruce was presented by the parishioners with six hundred and fifty sovs. as a farewell testimonial. Mr Bruce had been pastor at the church for a quarter of a century. The race between the Pet and the Brothers came off to-day in the presence of ■BOO spectators. The Pet, being longer, gave her opponent one minute. The Brothers got first under weigh. Coming to the winning point the Pet fouled a ship in rhe harbor, but was extricated. The Brothers, just being the minute of allowed time, tacked, and was in the act of winning, when, on approaching the wharf, she suddenly tacked before passing the winning point. The judges are now considering their decision. In a foot race of 120 yards for £2O, between Whitside and Gibson, the former won. An influential company has been formed here to work the copper lode recently discovered at Port Augusta, South Australia. The capital is £30,000, in shares of £1; £SOOO lobe awarded to the discoverers. Wellington, July 8. Tin; Hon. Dr Pollen and the Hon. Mr Whitaker arrived last night, per Hinemoa. The mate of the Excelsior has been picked up, drowned. In a football match between Nelson and Wellington players, Nelson made eight points and Wellington half a point. Kumara, July 7. A serious mining accident occurred on the the lead yesterday. Four men have been buried through the ground caving in. The claim was being worked by Cooney, Kelly, Kiley, and Quinlivan, near the prospectors’ claim, Dillman’s track. Whilst they were working in the tunnel a set of timber gave way, causing an immense fall of earth, which completely enveloped the men. '['he occurrence was not known till evening, when the men should have left work. An examination of the tunnel was then made, and immediate steps were taken for their release. Relays of miners have been working most energetically. Q.uinlivan was got out at 3 o’clock this morning, not seriously hurt; Kelly can bo heard speaking, and is expected to bo released this afternoon. It is

feared that Cooney and Kiley arc dead, and that it will take a long time to recover the bodies. The air in the tunnel is very foul, and it is with great difficulty rescuers can work. One of the men, Cooney, has a wife and family. Lawrence, July 7. John Gainc, painter, Roxburgh, committed suicide on Friday morning by hanging himself. No reason is known.

Mr Bastings addresses his Waipori constituency to-night. The election is a fight between Brown and Bastings, M.H.R.’s, for the county chairmanship, as, if Brown can keep Bastings out of a seat in the Council, Brown will get the chair.

[from a correspondent of the press.]

Tiraaru Breakwater. Timaru, July 7. A telegram was received to-day from Sir John Coodc by the Chairman of the Harbor Board, stating that he would prepare contract plans and specifications for a breakwater at a cost of not more than 500 guineas.