TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1318, 28 June 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

DUNEDIN.

June 27.

Young Scott succeeded in walking over 113 miles in five minutes under 24 hours. He did his last mile under ten minutes, and was enthusiastically cheered on the completion of his task. A fishing boat papsized in the surf at the bar at 8 p.m. on Saturday, and two men, named B.rown and Johnson, were drowned. A third man named Kerner clung to the boat, and was rescued. June 28.

At the City Police Court the Bench ordered the criminal prosecution for exposure against Mrs. Ferguson, who figured in the recent divorce case. She left her infant on the door of the house where Ferguson had placed his own children. Charles Paterson and William Smith, fishermen, are repqrtpfl tq have been drowned at Sandfly Bay during Saturday's gale. n CHRISTCHURCH. June 26. A young girl, nine years of age, daughter of Mr. W. H. Watson, printer, was drowned in the Avon this afternoon while picking water cresses. June 28. The unemployed delegates who have returned from Wellington report that the Government promised the following pay on the Weka Pass railway, wet or fine Married men, 28s a-week ; single men, 21s a-week ; provisions to be supplied at Is 3d each per day, and firewood at per day. They also promised to cornnience another spption qf the Albury line. The total entries for the industrial Exhibition amount to 150j

There were 14:, 685 bags of grain carried on the Christchurch section of railway last' week. The Government have declined to recommend the acceptance of the services of the proposed Sydenham Volunteer corps. fhe gelebpated racing sire Trftduqer l\as been ailing for some tjme pagt frqirj the combined effects of old age and chronic rheumatism, and there being no hope of his recovery,; the proprietors of the Middle Park stud reluctantly ordered him to be destroyed on Eriday last. : - Yesterday, the united celebration of Raikes Sunday School Centenary was commenced here by a series of services in the various places of public worship. ) The celebration "will be continued throughout the week. -At the Hunt Club's meet at Rangoon last week, Miss' E. M'Farlane liad % severe fall,breakihg one of- her wrists. Several others sua tainedinjuries. j

AUCKLAND. June 26. Yesterday was somewhat a riotous one at Cambridge. Proceedings commenced after the Court sat. Several of the constabulary were somewhat roughly handled, but succeeded in quelling the disturbance iin the Court; but the street, however, was the scene of one row after another up to dusk. The hotels were closed to-day, and quietude reigned. INVERCARGILL. June 26. A man named Andrew Cornfoot was lost from the cutter Kent, at Ruapuke, on Thursday last, having fallen overboard while intoxicated. Ropes were thrown to him, but he was unable to c catch them, and being unable to swim he soon disappeared. .