LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 98, 28 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Auckland, 27th April. Cole's Circua is stated to have n«tte< .£40,000 by the tour. Tha proprietor tool back, besides the menagerie, many mor< animals, inoluding 12 kangaroos, emus, 50 1 parrots, and a number of other Anatraliai birds. Forty Mormons left by the mail steame for Utah. Twelve 86amen of the ship Oxford, fron London, were sentenced to varying terms o imprisonment and forfeiture of wages, fo: broaching cargo to the extent of £100. Mr. Wickham, of the Free Lanoe, has beei bound over, on the complaint of Mr. W. L Bees, to keep the peace for three monthshimself in .£5O, and two sureties of J625 each David Olpherfc, a young man, aged 18, die< suddenly of lookjaw. He ran a nail in hi foot a fortnight ago, but paid no attention t< it, and went to business as usual till fata symptoms set in. This Day. At a meeting of the Governors of tin Grammar School to-day, Mr. Hesketh gavi notice of a series of resolutions to the effeo that the recent decisions of the Board re thi notice of the termination of the engagement! of the masters of the school, and the entranc upon negotiations for procuring a Universifc; graduate as headmaster, be revoked and an nulled on various grounds, but principally be cause the decisions were hastily and irregn larly arrived at,and beoanse those who oonsti tuted the majority were Sir Geo. O'Rorke, Mi Fenton, and the three nominees whose elec tion they secured by personally solieitin| votes for them, viz., Messrs. Brookfield Tole, and Nelson. The resolutions an couched in very bitter terms, and are likel; to provoke a most acrimonious discussion Sir George O'Borke stigmatised them a most offensive. Mr. Clarke also gave notio that he would move that the Governmen take over the present College for the pro posed Girls' High School, and pay to th Board the cost of erecting another building Oamabu, 27th April. A man named Sutherland jumped off th Southern goods train to-day while in motion and dislocated his shoulder. The County Council intend erecting offices and lately offered a bonus of JB2O for an ap proved plan. There were seven cotnpeti tors, the plan of Mr. J. Johnston beinj accepted. Christchubch, 27th April. Tho Acclimatisation Society has remon strated with the Government on the higl price of licenses for killing hares, which ess 203 each. The Kangiora Jockey Club have decide< to pay the owner of Eandwick the stakes fo the Cup, over which there wa3 a dispute This is in accordance with the decision o the C.J.C., who were appealed to on th matter. James Coburn and Thomas Parr, two sea men, were charged at Lyttelton to-day witl broaching cargo on board the Mataura whilst on the passage from London to Lyt telton. A large amount of evidence wa taken, which tended to prove that broaohini had been carried on almost the whole lengtl of the voyage, and that to reach the cargi they had to pass over tho powder magassin with candles. The case was adjourned ii order to obtain the evidence of some passen erers for the defence.