LATEST TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 150, 29 June 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

. — .» lUNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION. I New Plymouth. 28th June. At tho Harbor Board this afternoon, the Public Works Committee brought up a report, in which it recommended that Mr. Kees' services b6 dispensed with aa Harbor board Engineer, and that he be paid six months' salary in lieu of notice. Mr. tthind, who has lately arrived from Scotland, was appointed to take charge of the works, and the chairman was instructed to make an application to the Government for one of its engineers to be consulted from time to time as the works are proceeded with. Dunedin, 28th June. A privato company is starting in Dunedin for the manufacture of Portland cement. Mr. G. E. Elliott, father of the manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, had three ribs broken to-day by a buggy accident. This Day. A three-roomed cottage at the North-east Valley, belonging to Mr. Elery, was burnt down this morning. It was insured in the Transatlantic for i>l2s. A body, apparently of a newly-born male child, was found in a calico parcel off Prin-cess-street this morning. _ | A four roomed house at Upper Kaikorai, occupied by John M'Leod, was burned down this morning. The house was insured, but for what amount is not ascertaiuable. The Cromwell mine sent down a cako of 317 ounces from 290 tons of stone, for a fortnight's crushing. Auckland, 28th June. Samuel Thomelly, a carter, has been killed at the Mount Edon gravel pits by a fall of earth. He loaves a wife and family. Henry Fancourt, a quarantined passenger by the outward mail steamer, died at the quarantine station from dysentery. Daniel O'Brien, suspected of firing haystacks at Cambridge, has been sent to tho Lunatic Asylum. '1 he Board of Education having removed Mis Minnie Whyte to the Gratton Eoad Public School without reference to the local committee, the latter protested that under the Act they must bo consulted, and inBtructed the head master not to recognise the lady as teacher of the school A fire occurred at Hally.a brewery, Cambridge, but ib was got under The stock wa.s insured for .£3OO in the North British, and the building in the South British. Mr. G. K. AWerton, of the Northern Advocate, has already issued an address to the electors of Marsden, notifying his «andidaturo at the next elect-on. A man named Foster admitted having stolen a cash box which contained .£3OO, from the Kamo Hotel. The Grammar School Enquiry cost including the retiring allowance to Mr. Macrae. Oamabu, 28th Jnne. The heaviest soathat has been experienced here for the last ten or eleven years rolled into the bay to-day. The breakwater is not supposed to bo injured, but a number of liborer3' tenements, bnilt close to the beach, were washed away or destroyed. Two fi'iherir.en'B boats are in tho offing, but are at a safe distanco from the shore. Christchubch, 28th June. The success of tho Farmers' Co-oparative Association has been so great that step 3 are now being taken to establish a similar association with head-quarters at Christchurch. The balance-sheet of the iiakaia and Ashbnrton Forks Railway Company shows a profit of .£1650 17a 2d for the year, being about two per cent, of net return. 'i n r s Dat. At a meeting last night, convened by Mr. Towle, it was resolved to form an opera class for the purpose of producing the latest novelties in operas. Fifty members were enrolled. Thames, This Day. Mr Sheehan had a very BU"-cessful meetin? at Coromandel last evening. Hia speech waa feimilar to that at the Thames. An unanimous vot3 of thanks and confidence was passed. Tho mines at Tiki are highly epokon of, and very rich qaartz is being found. Napier, This Day. The Napier School Committee has refused to allow effect to-be given to the permission granted by tho Education Board to the Bible-in-schools Committee to issue circulars through the schools in order to ascertain the wishes of parents of the children in respect to Bible reading. The School Committee expressed the opinion that the Educition Board altogether a^ted beyond it 3 power, and instructed the head master not to receive the circulars or allow their distribution in the school. Another smart shock of earthquake wa3 felt here at 7.15 tbis morning. By the earthquake on Sunday at Woodville tha losses of tha settlers, ia the destruction of chimneya and crockery, i<j estimated at i>soo. In Napier the shoyk was slight, and no damage was done. Nelson, This Day. Prior to the departure of the College pupils for the vacation, a presentation was made by

them to Mr. and Mra. Mackay, of an illuminated address and a very fine water-color painting of tLe College by Professor Geisler. Thoy als^ presented Messrs. Barnicoat and Firth with some handsome volumes.