LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1440, 27 September 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

——— BY SUBMARINE CABLE,] AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, Sept. 26. The Government offers £4OOO reward to tho inventor of a machine for reaping and cleaning cereals. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [Per Press Agency.] Geaiiamstown, September 26. Gold has been got in the Cross Cut from tho 650 ft. level. The water race is about to be completed, Ministers having promised to re-introduce the vote of last session, which was allowed to lapse. Wellington, September 26. The Government have received the most reliable information from Canterbury that the prisoner O’Conor, who is now undergoing ten years’ penal servitude for attempting to poison, had been for some time past in the habit of carrying strychnine in his waistcoat pocket. [from the correspondent of THE PRESS.] Auckland, September 26. A lodge of sorrow in connection with St. Andrew’s Masonic Lodge, S.C., took place in tho Albert Hall, consequent on Brother W. M. Walter Graham’s death. The Lunatic Asylum is placed under the charge of Dr, Philson, pending the appointment of a permanent medical officer from home. The first court held in Auckland under the Public Works Act sat on the case of Witherford v Rcmuera Board; claim £9OO. The award was £175, with costs £3B Bs. A difficulty has arisen in the City Council owing to the Council’s representative on the Harbor Board declining to resign his seat on that Board when retiring from the Council.