LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 851, 19 April 1871, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per greville's telegraph company, reuter's agents.]

Wellington, April 18. The s.s. Wellington has been sold to the neiir local ' companyj for ! L7OOO, after keen competition by Mr John Martin. The Ahuriri was sold to Mr John Martin for L 3630. The Pheebe and Ashley were bought in by the owners, and the Taranaki'was hot put up;

A couple of young men in Burlington, lowa, have invented a machine that makes 100,000 match Bplints a minute. It only occupies a space of about Bin in width and 2|in in" length, and weighs about sixty pounds. Fulton County, Indiana, has a musical prodigy in the person of a boy four years old,, who plays difficult operatic selections on the piano, and* is addicted to marvellous performances on the violin. The lamentable arid fatal accident which has befallen Sir ? Henry Durand, recalls the circumstances which attended the. deaths of the late Earl, of Elgin and the late Bishop of Calcutta. All three died in the discharge of their duty, and at a time when there seemed many years of official life before them. The Viceroy died as Sir Henry Durand has died, suddenly, while On the maich, though not from accident; Bishop Cotton's death resembled Sir Henry's in being the result of a casualty — a chance trip of the foot, which j in his case, precipitated him into the Hooghly.— Globe.