TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 February 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

. , a i « ! [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. [from our own correspondent.] Gbahamstown, February 21. Messrs Catran Bros, and Millet bare arrived in Auckland from Te Aroba. Tbe police ordered their, departure for fear the natives would assault tllem, as their names had been mentioned inadvertently in the newspapers in connection with the Te Aroha murder. ' '■'" ! ' ' ' ' Christchuhch,* February 22. The brig Climati?, from Hobart to Lyttelton, ran on a sunken, rock, near Long Look-out Point yesterday, and sank shortly after^ardsV'

A contract fur tbe railway to Sumner c has been let for £12,000. t Some of Mr Studholme's wheat crop j in' the Wairaate district has been \ thf a9bed, and yielded fifty •nine bushels j "to the acre. This [9 an average »peci« > men tJiily of the yield of the whole area ( is expeetod to come up to this. [ The 1 English cable is interrupted. 1 The Asylum Commh>sion is still sitting, ( and' yery remarkable disclosures, savor* 1 ing of Charles Reade's description in ! 11 Hard Cash," are being made,, i A*uckla»d, February 22. ? 'i The s.s. Albion reports having come - : 1 info collision with and sunk the topsail ' schooner Isabella Pratt, off Port Ghar- 1 les. at 420 a.m. All hands were saved.--j Wakatipu from Sydney brines excit* , ing news of gold discoveries. At Grafton (N.S.W.j four buckets of quarli yielded 130 ounces of gold, At Temora specie mens from Alridge's claim are so rich . that j«>iey are banked for safety as fast as they, are -raised* Other diggings,- 200 miles from Willcinnia are causing a rush. A disastrous iinrricane, with tidal wave on the norliern shores of Western Auss tralia, caused much loss of life and, pro* nprtT,^Piirl fi^hffri. . , >i i J [Per Arawata at Bussell.j LoNDOK, February 15. There i§ every probability for a match for Wallace Ross to row either , Trickett or Laycock for £1000 a side on ( the Thames. . , Considerable sensation has bees caused , by the announcement (hat Ayoub Khan has again declared war against Abdul Khamara, Ameer of CabuU , The relations between Greece and Turkey are strained to the utmost, and war is regarded as imminent. Laycock has sailed for Australia." The fears of the Fenian attempt bl^w, np^Windsor Gastle haTtng/been erpellcd, Her Mnjesiy the Queen has re« turned to Windsor. The Speaker of the House of Commons bns now somewhat modified the rules which he has lately made for the repression of disorder in the House. •"y r "■■ ' f. i> . -.- •:■. — -■ •;' i . " . ' \. ' :" ■