LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 10th January.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 8, 11 January 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 10th January.

The new wing and additions to the Lunatic Asylum have been completed, at a cost of £18,000. The Mayor has given £25 to the Industrial Home. Charles Buddie, eldest son of the Bey. T. Buddie, has been appointed associate to Judge Gillies. An old pensioner named Michael Malonoy, alias James White, was drowned in Henderson's Creek on Saturday night. Mrs. Hampson, the Evangelistic lecturess, is going to the Thames for revivalistio work, and after that she visits the South. The Governor arrived yesterday morning, and at the end of the week will visit Sir George Grey at Kawau. He will visit the Thames, Cambridge, the Hot Lakes, Napier, New Plymouth, and then return to Wellington. The case, Maohattie v. Craig, in whioh £1000 is claimed for slander, has been settled by defendant writing an apology and paying legal expenses. Tim abu, 10th January. William Ga sling, a farmer at Mount Horrible, had a large haystack burned last night. Incendiarism is suspected, and the police are now looking for the suspected parties. " " " Chbistchtjbch, 10th January. The Government has given instructions to continue the platelaying on the Little River railway to' the eight miles post, which, with pitching the embankment over the Lake Ellesmere section, will absorb the Parliamentary vote. The railway will then be just as useless as ever. The little girl named Austin, who had her head, leg, and arm crushed by a tram car on the 9th November, has, to the surprise of 'all, completely recovered. The arm had to be amputated. A prisoner for debt in Addington Gaol, named Morris, aged 80, died of apoplexy this morning. A day or two ago some claimants to property in his possession took the roof off his. house, and this, it is said, preyed on the man's mind. . A man has been fined £4 for illegally burying the body of a child. A severe penalty was pressed for by the authorities. lJTm«i>iNr, 10th January. Efforts are being made by the police here to suppress Sunday liquor traffic. Visits have been made to most of the licensed houses, and the proprietors warned that prosecution Will fellow continuance of Sunday trading. The Dunedin Cricket Association will play twenty against the Australian Eleven. The Fire Brigade Conference will be attended by three delegates from Christchurch, two from Dunedin, and from Naseby, Rangiora, Port Chalmers, Waimate, Mornington, Caversham, and Napier one each. The copper lode at Waitahuna now being worked by Messrs. George Watson, J. M. Watson, and Buchanan is showing magnificent prospects. The lode is two feet in width,- and increasing in thickness, and the ore is very rich. This Dat. A match for £200 a side has been definitely arranged between Philps' Native Cat and Kirkwood's Our Pony, to come off on the second day of the, Dnnedin meeting. The distance is to be three miles, Native Cat giving five seconds start. The first deposit of £50 a side has been made.