BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(feom obr own correspondent.) Chbistchurch. Friday, 1.8 p.m. The steamer Otago has arrived from Wellington. The attempt to lay the telegraph cable across Cook's Straits has failed. The ship in tide rip causing rapid delivery, the cable fouled and broke off CapeTerewiti. Another attempt will be made in aboutthree weeks. In the Assembly nothing but separation debates has occurred. Division took' place on Tuesday night— 44 against and 18 for Whittaker's resolution.
Tuesday's " Examiner " states : — " Mr G-. S. Sale, Commissioner of the Canterbury Goldfields, Mr Price, Warden of Okarita, and Mr A. S. Kynnersley, Warden at Cobden, have passed through Nelson.-on their way to Wellington, where they have been summoned to * attend in order to give evidence before a committee of the Hous.o of Eepresentativos, with a view to the amcndinaut of thp existing eteldfieKU Act»,"
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West Coast Times, Issue 270, 4 August 1866, Page 4
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