SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.) (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 419, 21 January 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Agency.)

(From the Daily South ern Cross.)

Auckland, Wednesday. The half-yearly meeting of the Union Sash and Door Company was held to-day. The report read was very satisfactory. A dividend of 10 per cent was declared. The Government gaol inquiry was closed to-day ; result favorable to the manager. The Luna has returned from the North with Sir Donald McLean. A special steamer has been ohartered to convey the colonial representatives to the Thames on Friday immediately on the arrival of the Wellington from the South.

"Wellington, Wednesday. A cricket match between the officers and men of the liosario and the V\ ellington Club was played today. The former scored 54 to the Club's 232; Werry making 62 off his own bat.

Dunedin, Wednesday. There has been a great falling off in the yield of gold inOtago. THe amount brought down by the escort in 1873 being 145,024 ounces against 114,214 ounces for las* year.

Wellington, Tuesnay. Mr Lemon, general manager of the Telegraph Department, -with his usual forethought and wish to oblige, has determined to lay down a special wire from Orrahamstown to the site of the prize firing. It is stated here on undoubted authority that a conspiracy with the wildest ramifications have been discovered in Russia. It was intended to assassinate the Governors of fourteen provinces. Some of the best families in the country are implicated, and young ladies have been arrested, and sent to Siberia. The inhabitants of two whole villages have also been sent there. The Russian Government officially denies that there has been a conspiracy. Mr Creighton was lately seen in the carriage with the Superintendent, Mr Fitzherbert, at the opening of the Waimrapa bridge, and that. quasi-favourable articles to the Provincial Government have since appeared, giving rise to much speculation. —Echo.

Lyttelton, Tuesday. At the adjourned inquest this afternoon, John Mercer was committed for trial for the wilful murder of Isabella Thompson.

Westport, Tuesday. Five men ha-v c been drowned by the upsetting of a cargo boat in the Mohikinui River. One man escaped. The party were returning from the H-jlcyon claim, higher up the river.