TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 752, 7 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

DUNEDTN. ■••■•• ■ ■ September 6. The train from Christchurch w'ith. the Governor and party arrived at a quarter to 7 this evening. The- Mayor welcomed the Governor to Dunedin, and the latter declared the through line open. The south end of the city was grandly illumiuated, and electric lights were exhibited from the Custom House, the Bank of New Zealand, and other buildings. There was a crowd of 8000 persons at the railway station. To-night, the vice-regal party attend the Princess Theatre, when the Civil Service Club performs. To-morrow morning, a special train leaves for Lawrence with the members of the Assembly who intend paying Blue Spur a visit. ♦ CHRISTCHURCH. September 6. A very large estate known as the Peel Forest Estate has been sold privately bv Messrs. Miles, Hassal, and Co., but the price has not transpired. A ilood gelding named Cambello, four ye:-. :-a old, arrived yesterday by the Albion. He is the winner of several races in Victoria, and comes to run in the Jockey Club Handicap. He arrived in splendid order. By the last mail from Melbourne a letter was received from Mr. Curtis A. Read, suggesting a programme which was arranged at a meeting of the Secretaries of the Clubs challenged by the Canterbury Cricket Association, in which it is proposed that an eleven should play at Ballarat on December 27 and 28 ; East Melbourne, on January 1 and 2 ; Melbourne Cricket Club, January 4, 5, and 6; South Melbourne, January 10 and 11 ; and the Bohemians on January 14 and 15. Mr. Read mentions that when only two days are set apart for a match, the play need not be restricted to those days, but that the match, if unsatisfactory, may be continued on the following day. September 6. At a meeting of the Farmers' Society yesterday it was suggested that the Society and the Kaiapoi Club ought to combine this year in offering a good prize for a trial of harvesters. The amount realised at St. Luke's Bazaar was L 350. The meetings of the Drainage and Harbor Boards yesterday lapsed through members being away on the railway excursion. ■* NELSON. September 7. A cablegram from JLondon received last night announces the death of Mr. John Symonds, principal of the Nelson .firm of Messrs. N. Edwards and Co. «, BLENHEIM. September 7. i Numerous telegrams have been received i at the Express Office this morning from Havelock. One says that the report that gold had been found in the Mountain Gamp Creek was greatly exaggerated. Mills, Riley, and Ragg each report that three miners brought down one hundred ounces from Wakamarina last night and deposited it in the Bank. The best half was obtained last week out of a terrace above the level of the half-mile from Fords. The excitement is great and ia increasing. ..-,-■-

Balowtha. September 0. Much surprise is felt bere at tie report . in the Dunedin papers that the section of railway from Balclutha to Clinton will be completed in a few weeks. The contract time expired a ? few weeks ago, . but bad weather set in at the beginning of July, ] and from the slow progress made it cannot possibly be finished before The district roads are destroyed, and. seitL'-rs and travelling'public put to great ineo:>v n<e,iic- by the in c>ion of th, coni t.i-ict'>"s 'ia-t snmm-T Muc'i regr.-t is felt toaft this.biieis ii.ii ready n, becp'-n-d to-dsiy, ah.ni with the I?or-iiern. Inn-. T.h'e trip of the Nun hern\nieinbjr-s would have then be- n from Chriaicureh to luvercai'^il!. AUCKLAND September 6. The May..r (Mr. H. Brett) sent the following telegram to be read at the Dunedin railway bauquet:—" Congratulate Mayors of Dunedin and Chmtchurch on completion of iron link, and trust time not far distant 77hen Mayors' of Wellington and Auckland may welcome Mayors of southern cities by railway from Wellington to Auckland.'■-