TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4793, 2 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Tuesday. Mrs. Carmichal, wife of a Kirikiri settler, fell dead while cooking, from heart disease. Gkahamstown, Tuesday. There is talk of a second morning paper being started here. As an impression has gained ground that the Advertiser will be devoted to Sir George Grey's party, the Advertiser of to-day asserts that it will continue to be an independent paper. Nelson, Tuesday. The following telegram has been received from the manager of the Eichmond Hill silver mine:—"We struck ore in drive lOin. thick, 10ft. from the shaft. The vein is rapidly thickening." Christchurch, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Drainage Board, Mr. Bell, the engineer, said that according to calculations he had made, the discharge of sewage and artesian water in Christchurch amounted to 240 gallons per head of population every 24 hours, and that nine-tenths of artesian water was running to waste ; also that as new artesian wells were sunk the old ones rapidly decreased in supply, it was resolved to apply to the General Assembly for power to exercise control over artesian wells, with a view to prevent waste. A strong football team will be got together to play the Northern Provinces. Dunedin, Tuesday. A Mrs. Baylis disappeared mysteriously from her lodgings last night, leaving a note for her husband, to the effect that she would not see him again in this world. Blair, the absconding debtor, was brought up at the Supreme Court this morning and discharged. The Judge said that his conduct had been suspicious, and quite sufficient to justify his arrest.