Telegraphic Despatches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 427, 20 January 1875, Page 2

Telegraphic Despatches.

{From our own Correspondent.)

The Northern and Southern Escorts arrived in Dunedin to-day with the following quantities of gold '• — Lawrence »v< Wii 0 Waipori 327 0 Wuirahuna ..." ... 296 0 Tapanui 28 0 Sw.tzers (two months) ... 1340 13 Tokomairiro 283 9 Queenstown ... ... 1571 15 Carlrona 2Si 0 Arrow 697 0 C/omwell 4120 0 Clyde 333 0 Alexandra 421 0 Teviot 453 0 Blacks 2380 0 Mount Ida 2259 0 St. Bathans 1268 13 Macraes 117 18 Palmerston 38 0 Total 17 : 830 8 Six boys were sent to Auckland by th« liadybml to-day from the. ()ta*o Indus trial School, to be placed in thi Nuval Train- ) ing Schnol at Knhimarama. j At the Synod to-d.iy the report of the Snsceutatiou Fund Committee offered congratulations at the progress made enabling them to give a dividend of £110 ! 8i for the lulf year ending 31st December, or £213 6s for the year. Wfstport, January 19. On Sunday night a cargo boat; which had conveyed machinery for the Halcy<>ne claim up the Nohikinui river, on return trio capsized, and five men were drowned. Their names were Peter Sentoti, Wm. Miller, Wm. Hall. Benj. Dnndell, Geo. Nicholl. The sixth man (Carter) escaped. Attcki.and, Jan. 19. Tt is understood that the only condition on which Gillies accepted the jud^eship was that he would be located in Auckland. Some dissatisfaction exists among lawyers at placing him on this circuit on account of business and personal relations, which are considered likely to militate against the faithful dicharge of his duties. Christchurch, January 19. The Lrttelton murder. — A verdict of wilful murder agdin3t the man, Mercer, 1 for the murder of Isabella Thompson, was returned at 3 30 p.m. by the Jury at the adjourned inqnes-t: Wkllivotoit, January 19. The reported Russian conspiracy. — There has been a gigantic conspiracy in Russia, although officially denied. It was intended to assassinate the Governors of 14 Provinces. Some of them of the best families in thy country are implicated. Young ladies have been arrested and sent to Siberia, and the inhabitants of two whole villages have been also sent there.