SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 742, 26 August 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

<» [FROM OUK OV/N' U'WKKSPOivDBNT.J DUNEDfJN T . August 26. The Time 3 says that from letters received by the last mail it appears that the praise given to Sir Julius Vogel in connection with the floating of the last loan is premature. The Agent-General strongly contended that the loan should be floated by Rothschild, and it was on the persistent efforts of Mr. Larnacb, and in direct opposition to the wishes of Sir Julius, that the operation was performed through the Bank of England. The success in floating the loan was an entire surprise to the brokers, who had confidently predicted that it would be a failure. Advices from Home are rather against the propriety of op: rating on the English money market again tuis year, but nexr year no difficulty is anticipated. A large party proceeded to Goodwood to-day to witness the linking in of th-.. last rail of the line to Dunedin. The Star says that the final arrangements agreed to at the conference of railway managers are that an express train leaves [ Dunedin at 7 o'clock in the morning, 1 reaching Christchurch a little after 5, with a quarter of an hour's stay at Oamaru and half-an-hour at Timaru. A second train leaves here at 3.45 p.m., but only proceeds as far as Oamaru that night. Colonel Whitmore and Messrs. Stout and Fisher will represent the Ministry at ' the Dunedin bampiet. . « BALcLUTHA. August 24. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at 2.45 o'clock this afternoon. Brick buildings shook, furniture vibrated, and some people rushed out of their houses in alarm, '