TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVL, Issue 3805, 19 October 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

I CHRISTCHUKCB, this day. THE CHRISTCHURCH LEVAKTEK.

DUNEDIN. this day.

(BY TELEGmriI.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

HAMIIiTON, this day. A DELICATE .HltfT.

The Mayor has wired to the Hon. the Premier, at the request of tbe burgesses and settlers, asking him if, after formally op«nirjß the bridge over tbe Waipa, at Whaliwbatiboc, bo will bo kiurf enough to visit Hamilton and declare the traffic bridge froe from toll.

(PER PR*S4 ASSOCIATIONON.)

WELLINGTON, this day,

Miss Maitha Hamilton, formerly assistant mistress of the Girls' High School, Christcharch, has been appoUted principal to the Girls' High School, 'Wellington.

A petition was presented to the ActingGoTcrnor this morning prajing for remission ot the sentence passed on two yonng persons for iodecent behavioar in the Botanical Gardrns. The father of the -lad »rrived from Wangannl yesterday to interviow the Minister of Justice on the subject.

PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. DETEKMINED SUICIDIS.

A m«n named Hans Pcier Keilion, a Scandinavian, committed suicide by tying flax to a fencirg post, and, *toopi*g down, tighteting tho cord, thus strai>gli»g hims It . .

CHIiISTCHUKCS, Wednesday. TDK'S SEAMEN DROWNED.

Three ot tho crew of the barque Coc* liv ■were drowned on tho voyage to Lono. >n namely, the chief officer, Mr Trerent, »n able seaman named I'ri-s, and a* apprentice named Middox. They were swept overboard by a sea which broKo orer the poop. The fifth annual meeting of the Kalapol Woollen Company was h«-H yesterday. Eighty looms are at work, and the mill and clothing factory give employment to nearly 500 hands, 'lhe profit and losi account Bhows a surplus of £904311s 7d,ont of which it is proposed to pay a dividend of 10 per cent., Absorbing £5000, the balance to be ennied forward to the new account. It is probable that the elect-ie light will be in use before the next annual meeting.

'Additional forgeries by'Hempton have come to light, viz , a promissory note for £150, purporting to be signed by J. Hansmann, and another for £100. purporting to bo signed by y/att Wood.

At the City Court, Superintendent Weldon intimated that he would not proceed with the charge of attempted tuicide preferred against Jane Gray. On. account of her low nervous state she bad been per* mitted to go to her home.

At the Education Board meeting to-day Mr A C. Begg leslgncd membership of the Normal School Committee bfcausa the Board te-appointed Mr Farnio to that school.

The City of Bombay, Captain Khurd, comes into port with the loas of part of her bnlwarkr, hariug experienced a succession of heavy gales while running down her easting Off the coast of Tasmania,duriog a terrific 'gale, she Jiad her main rigging carded away.