YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS
[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.J [itEUTEii'S SPECIAL IELKGRAMB TO TUB PJJKBS AGENCY.] Disastrous Fire at Bolton. London, March 12. At a great fire at Bolton, in Lancashire, thirty-five people perished. AUSTRALIAN. The Chimborazo on the Rocks. Typhoid Fever in Sydney. Commercial Sydney, March 15. Tho Australian Eleven will play eighteen Victorians to-morrow. The weather is unfavorable. Melbourne, March 15. The Chimborazo went ashore at Beecroft's Head, north of Jervis Bay. The passengers were landed safely. Sydney, March 15. Hennessy's case and quarters unchanged; kerosene, Is lid ; rice, £22 to £22 6s ; New Zealand wheat, 5s 6d ; New Zealand oats, 4s 2d to 4s 3d ; tobacco and sugar unchanged; Belmont sperms, 9s d. Typhoid fever is raging near Richmond. 3 Adelaide, March 15. Elour, £l3 5s to £l3 10s; wheat, 5s 7d.
[SI'ECIAL TO G-LOBE.] Sydney, March 15. w Carter and Company, of Melbourne, wain tperchauts, called a meeting of creditor!.. KTiwbiUties are £3,0,000 j aeeeta 8»a«,
Chester is favorite for the Cup ; and for the Leger, Reciprocate.
Tho steamer Chimborazo struck on the rocks in Jervis Bay, and afterwards drifted into Jervis Bay. Numerous deaths from typhoid have occurred near Sydney. The residents are burning the houses.
INTERPROVINCIAL.
[PBB PRESS AGENCY.] Wellington, March 15. A telegram has been received announcing that the Alhambra left Melbourne on Wednesday with a large quantity of salmon ova, ex Chimborazo, and apparently in good condition. After a good mnny meetings, a fairlyattended meeting was held, and it was resolved to establish a Reform Association, and a committee was appointed to arrange a programme and frame resolutions, to be submitted at a future meeting. Westport, March 14 Tenders are called for constructing the railway and self-acting incline for the Coalbrookdale Coal Company, Mount Roohfort. This will be an extension of the Wellington Company's line, and will open up some of the best coal in the district.
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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1256, 16 March 1878, Page 2
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