(Per Wakatipu.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1929, 3 July 1878, Page 2

( Per Wakatipu.)

Bkisuane, June 27. An extraordinary moteor, with a head as Ru-jro as tho sun, and a tail of immense length, passed over Georgetown, and burst like a hundred rockets. Newcastle, Juno 2. Sam Howard's New Zoalaml Combination Troupe, are doing well here. Sydney, June 27. A woman, named Mary Gadbury, was picked up by the police in a street at tho back of the Town Hall, about 5 p.m., with a wound on hor head, a broken olbow, and other sever© injuries. She Baid she had been thrown out of a window twenty feet from the ground. Melbourne, June 27. The Government will have to contract a new lonn for the purchase of the Hobson's Bay Railway nnd the construction of other lines. The price to be paid for the former is 1,132,000. A number of reductions! aye being made in the Public Service by the superannuation of old officers. It is rumored that the Governor has received a despatch by the last mail in which his action is not altogether approved by tho Secretary of State A nugget has been found by a Chinaman on private property near .Beiliba, which weighed four hundred ounces. A movement has bten started for the formation of an Infant Asylum, to prevent infanticide and baby farming. Gentles the owner and rider of Selector, was killed while riding in a steeplechase. Mr B. Payne, of South Yarra, has given LlOOO to Trinity College for the foundation of a Scholarship. Thomas Poarce has been presented with ! the Humane Society's gold medal. The Press urges the Government to send a vessel to tho scene of the wreck of the Loch Ard, in hopes that survivors may yet be lound in the numerous caves on the coast, which are only approachable from the tea. A lighthouse is to be erected at Currie Harbor, King's Island, at a cost of L 105,000. Adelaide, June 27. A man named Asldey, who had been sentenced to death in Victoria, but had his sentence commuted to 20 joars, having served his time, was convicted for forgery three day after his nriivnl heie, and has been sentenced to seven years.