TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4223, 2 October 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[Pbesu Telegbath Agency.] Feathebbton, Thursday. At the election of a member of the Education Board to-day, vice Mr. Waterhouse, no candidate was proposed. Eoxton, Thursday. Heavy floods have occurred all over the West Coast district. Neither the Wanganui nor the Wellington coach has arrived here. The former is at Palmerston, the latter at Otaki. The tramway is damaged and several places are under water, A large quantity of crop, and a number of sheep and cattle are destroyed. The rivers are all dangerous. Travelling is stopped at various places. 1,45 p.m. The Wellington passengers have just crossed the Manawatu River. The coach stopped on the other side.

Auckland, Thursday. A fire at Mr. Water’s farm-house; Papatoitoi, destroyed a large two-storey building. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £6OO, and Norwich Union for £6OO. Grahamstown, Thursday. Mr. Adlam writes to the Advertiser denying that he had anything to do with the threatened closing of the Pinko. The Manukau mine has given a splendid yield of 1871 ounces of melted gold for about five weeks' crushing. Napier, Thursday. The weather has been very boisterous all day, but no damage is reported in this locality. One thousand trout ova per Rangatira have been taken up country, to be placed in a mountain stream, the exact locality of which the authorities desire to keep secret for the present, for obvious reasons, considering the fate of the last shipment. Oamaru, Thursday. A team of three horses and a driver, in crossing the Waireka yesterday, were all drowned. Mr. Collis, an old resident, in crossing the same river, with horse and buggy, narrowly escaped by clinging to a flax bush. The horse was drowned. Blenheim, Thursday. Communication with Picton has been resumed to some extent. The letters were brought in last night and the newspapers this afternoon, but there is much water on the road still. The coach is not running. No damage as yet has been reported, except to the railway embankment, which is spoken of as crumbling away, as if it were merely sand heaped up. The weather now is fine, but slight showers are falling. A young man, one of the immigrants who came here two months ago, and was employed as a rider on Horne’s farm, was drowned on Tuesday last. He was going after a heifer when horse and rider went over the bank into the Opawa River, and neither were seen again. Dunedin, Thursday. The revenue here for the September quarter amounts to £94,287 11s. 10d., against £70,454 3s. 6d. in the corresponding quarter of last year. The Colonial Bank was opened for the transaction of business to-day. Bishop Neville, in opening the Diocesan Synod, referred to the work done throughout the Colony, and said it would be desirable that the Synod should proceed with the institution of schools of a higher grade for both sexes. The following are the directors of the Colonial Bank :—Hon. Matthew Holmes, A. W. Morris, W. A. Tolmie, W. J. M. Larnach, John Reid of Corner Bush, Martan, Donald Reid, M.H.R., and John Reid of Elderslie. Auditors :—W. D. Meares and Edmund Smith. Port Chalmers, Thursday. It is blowing a south-west gale. - g&TKKCAEOiLL, Thursday.- , "The News of this morning publishes a letter from Dr. McClure, denying that diphtheria has ever been prevalentJiere. There is another letter in the same journal from Dr. Cotterell, who says that he has attended several cases of that disease, one of which proved fatal last week. Dr. Cotterel* calls attention to the necessity of cleanliness, attention to back-yards, &c. A great deal of rain has fallen up the country. All the rivers are flooded. The strong easterly wind that has prevailed for some time, together with the -wet weather, is having a serious effect on the lambing, this being the middle of the season. The Bluff, Thursday, 7.40 p.m. The Tararua has not yet arrived. It has been blowing a gale, with rain and mist all day, and a heavy sea from the south. The weather is moderating now.