LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 682, 2 June 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[prom our owif correspondents.] Dunedin, June 1. The Provincial Council has refused to vote funds for the establishment of Chairs of Agriculture, Chemistry, and School of Mines in connection with the University. Mr Smythies, to-day, applied to be readmitted as a barrister, and was refused. A complimentary dinner will be given to Judge Ward to-morrow. Mr Larnach, manager of the Bank of Otago, offers to advance half a million of money to construct the Olutha Railway Line, at eight per cent. [w. o. times.] Wellington, May 31. The result of yesterday's deputation to the Government is regarded as very unsatisfactory. The people generally are dissatisfied, alikejwith Mr Vogel's explanation and Mr Pearce's statements. Great anxiety is felt here regarding the fate of the schooner Isabella Jackson, 40 tons, Watson, master, which left here tor Lyttelton, on the 25th of April, with 20 tons of coal, and has not been heard of since. A system of telegraphic money orders is arranged and will be immediately brought into operation. A private letter from Dr Featherston states that Sir George Grey is likely to stand and be elected to the Parliament for Newark. He further says that he believes it is finally arranged that Brogden and Co., the great railway contractors, will send out a staff of surveyors to report upon the Nelson and Cobden Railway. If so Brogden is quite willing to entertain a scheme for establishing a system of railways throughout the North Island, capital being no great object with him. In another part of the letter he says— "l am going down with Mr Brogden to North Wales, to inspect a railway there with only two foot guage. [ This, though at present laughed at by engineers, seems likely to be extensively adopted. It is perfectly safe at a speed of thirty miles an hour, and the cost is reduced LIOOO per mile for every foot of guage reduced."