LATEST TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 3, 4 July 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

♦ I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Christchurch, 3rd July. The old building- once known as St. Michael's schoolroom, but now converted into a boarding-house, was burned down this morning. It was empty at the time. It was one of the oldest in Christchurch. This Dat. There are for trial 19 prisoners. The Canterbury Chess Club on Saturday night resolved to include draughts and whist in the future operations of the club. Dunedin, 3rd July. Th<3 members of Parliament here have expressed much surprise at the excellence of the Exhibition, and, at a meeting of the committee with them, the Premier was telegraphed to, urging that excursion trains at third-class fares should be run Mr. Dick, the Colonial Secretary, also wired, urging concessions in fares. The members leave for Wellington on Tuesday. This Day. A deputation of holders ef bottle licenses waited on the Hon. T. Dick, and Mr Stewart, M.H.R., this morning. Both gentlemen expressed their approval of the leintroduction of the bottle license clause. Mr J. C. Brown and the Hon. Mr. Heynolds, who accompanied the deputation, approved the same course. Messrs. Patterson, and Mcfarlane were appointed a deputation to proceed to Wellington on behalf of bottle license holders. Auckland, 3rd July. At the inquest on the body of George Walker, found dead in a drain, it was proved that he was subject to fits. A verdict of " Found Dead " was returned. Ie having been rumored that a Chinaman had arrived from the Thames suffering from leprosy, the sanitary inspector was instructed to find him and have him medically examined, but he has not yet beon ablib to trace him. Major Jackson, of the Waikato, publishes an address to the electors, Btating that it is his intention to contest the electorate at the next election. Nelson, 3rd July. A man named Murphy was killed on the Bellgrove railway extension works last night. He was employed by a contractor, and whilst attending to the brake on a truck, containing some eight tons of ballail, he fell across the rails and his body was cut in two.