LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2048, 2 March 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] New Plymouth, March 1. Messrs Brogden and Sons have obtained three months' extension of time for the Waitara Railway. Port Chalmers, March 1. Mrs Macandrew, wife of the Superintendent of Otago, died yesterday. The i deceased lady was a sister of the Hon. W. H. Reynolds. Christchdbch, March 1. It is reported in town that an epedemic disease had appeared among the cattle in the Lincoln district, and that a large number had died, but enquires made by the Provincial Government showed that the death of cattle had been caused by ergotised grass root. It is a specious of black poisonous fungus, and ia caused by an insect eating into the grass and leaving poison behind. One man has lost 40 head of cattle in the past few months, and another an importation of 29 pure-bred Lincoln and Leicester sheep. Captain Holt writes to the papers this morning contradicting a statement made in the Chamber of Commerce last week, that the Press Telegraph Agency is Messrs Brogden, and says that Brogden has no control whatever over the agency. Grahamstown, March 1. News that Ohinemuri will be pronounced a gold-field on Wednesday caused considerable excitement, and increased the number of persons leaving. The steamers to-day were all crowded ; the North-Shore Ferry Company's boat Takapuna left with 200 passengers. Applications for miners' rights will be received to-morrow, and the rights filled up already to issue as soon as the proclamation is read, in order to prevent the delay and confusion which would ensue in the scramble if the whole matter were left until the field was declared open. The City of London claim is coming to the front as a gold-producing claim. The first crushing since the erection of the winding gear has jnat been completed, the result being 7450z from about 240 loads of stuff. Thi3 was from the deep level, and has revived interest in the reef. Blenheim, March 1. Some human bone 3 were found last Thursday on the beach, near White's Bay. A boot with stocking had the initials J.M. worked on it. At the inquest this afternoon the evidence proved the bones were those of a young immigrant who was working on Dr Slorne's farm in September last, and who was drowned in the Opawa while riding after some cattle. The name of the deceased was Alfred , John Merritt, a native of Jersey. Napier, March 1. Dr English, an old settler at Wapawa, was found dead in the bedroom of the Empire Hotel, Waipawa, yesterday. Wellington, March 1. C. B. Borlase, late Mayor, is very ill, and faint hopes of his recovery are entertained. An endeavor is being made to establish gasworks at the Hutt.