LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 19, 25 January 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[united press association.] Dunkdin, 24th January. At the Primitive Methodist Conference today, the connectional buildings report was brought up. It showed that tire newchurches, at a total cost of .£3076, have been erected during the past year, the whole being placed under the Temporalities Act of the body. This Day. John Wilson was found drowned in the bay early this morning. He was seen the worse for liquor at 10 o'clock last night. It is believed that he was unmarried and aged about 44. The police describe him as a "loafer." Blenheim, This Dat. The election of the school committee last night was an exciting affair. Five of the seven members were returned pledged to make a clean sweep of the teachers in the Borough schools, of which Mr. H. P. Macklin is head-master. Greymottth, 24th January. The United Alpine Company, Lyell, obtained. 302 ounces of amalgam from 165 tons of quartz. The Welcome Company, Reefton, lodged 863 ounces of retorted gold in the bank on Wednesday. Christchurch, 24th January. An accident happened at the Lyttelton Graving Dock this morning. A two-ton tub of concrete on the " traveller " capsized, throwing the men on it on to the ground. One, named Mulholland, got a nasty scalp wound. J. Jarey was badly bruised in the left thigh, and another man had his collarbone badly broken, and was also badly bruised and his face cut; a fourth man escaped with a cut on the arm. In the Supremo Court case, Ivess y. Crisp, an action for malicious prosecution, in which a claim of J2500 was made for damages, a verdict was given for plaintiff for wfi-5 and costs. In reference to the sacred concert given by the Simonsens [at the Theatre Eoyal, it is stated by the Times that at the Council's meeting this evening the form for new license will be a matter of careful consideration, and it is to be so framed that, save by special permission, no entertainment can be given on Sundays and some other specified days. It is further intended to make the same rule apply to other places of amusement in the city. The privileges for the forthcoming Australian cricket match were sold to-day. Two publicans' booths fetched J2143, and a confectioner's stall, <£13. This Day. The valuation # of the city this year is .£224,594. This, notwithstanding many small reductions, gives an increase of <£st>o9, the additional number of buildings put up during the year being very great. The amount received by the City Council for the year for drivers' and other licenses was <£546 10s. A woman named Annie Bay, a rather notorious character, was found lifeless in a house yesterday. She had all her clothes on, and had apparently been dead 48 hours. An inquest is to be held to-morrow. Auckland, This Day. Mr. G. S. Graham, manager of the Colonial Insurance Co., returned from England per s.s. Hero. Some of the Anglican clergy on Snnday urged the faithful to return school committees favorable to Bible-reading in schools. While some street excavations were being effected in Newtown, the store of Mr. T. Hayes collapsed. The workmen underneath escaped. An influential committee, with the Attor-ney-General (Hon. F. Whitaker) at its head, has been formed to welcome the Australian cricketers. Thomas Coutlin, a half-caste, has been committed for trial for rape on Mary Ann Mackeish, at Mercury Bay. An old woman,a lunatic, hanged herself last night at the Old Women's Befnge. There were twelve other women sleeping in the room at the time. Sbe was seen hanging from the bed, having torn up the sheets to make a rope. An inquest is to be held this afternoon. The Masonic bodies entertain Bro. George Graham, District Grand Master, at a banquet to-morrow, on the occasion of his return to New Zealand from England. Wangantji, This Day.~ The election of School Committee for this place took place last evening, and was decided on the Bible in schools question. The result is that five secularist and two Bible-in-school advocates were returned. The opening of the Wanganui Exhibition is fixed for the 20th May.