LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 82, 5 October 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedin, 4fch October. The Roslyn Tramway Company has now definitely settled the olaim for damages preferred by the father of Garrett, the young man who was killed by the accident. Thomson's claim is now being settled by arbitration, and the only claim now unsettled is one by Legginß, which will come into Court. Mr. Oliver will stand for Dunedin Central, not Roslyn. Mr. Bastings opposes him. Mr. Fish will stand for Dunedin South. The trial of powder manufactured at CatHn'a Eiver by Mr. Mackley, formerly of' Port Chalmers, was held to-day ab the Port Chalmers stone quarries. It was highly successful. • The maohinery at the fadtory is entirely of Dunedin make. The Government has offered a bonns for powder. Auckland, 4th October. i Mr. De Lias has engaged tho Montaguj Turner Opera Company for a tour of New Zealand, c >mmencin£ at Auckland. The Thames contingent for the Armed Constabulary left by the Hawea. At the Harbour Board, Mr. L. D. Nathan forwarded a protest against charging wharfage fees on commercial travellers' samples, bat ths Board declined to alter the usage. Messrs. Partridge and Woolams, tobacconists, owing to the remission of the duty on coloniil-grown tobacco, are making arrangements to grow and manufacture tobacio on> a block ot land at Eemuera. This Day. The Presbytery today passed a resolution appointing a committee to enquire into and report fully upon the means of providing relig.ous instruction in the public schools. A similar motion was given notice of in the Diocesan Synod CHRISTCHU3CH, THIS DAT. The sum of .£6OO ha* already been subscribed towards the proposed Moorhouse memorial. Oamaru, 4th Oofcobor. A Chinaman named Quin Ti was killed whil-t engaged in gold mining at Maerewhenua yesterday. A fall of earth completely j buried him, and an hour was spent in removing the debris before lug body was reached. Gretmotjth, 4th OctDber. It is stat.d hers that in consequence of the way in which tho Wallsend Colliery Company have tied up the mine, that the [ ground has been jumped, and that the law ! will be set in force to have the lease cancelled- . Invebcargill, 4th October. The receipts for admission to the recent I exhibition amounted to J2451, and for snndry items to £ IS— in all .£469. The expenditure reached .£341, leaving a net balance of .£127 [ for the benefit of toe Benevoltnt Institution. News has been received of the sudden i death, at Melbourne, from fatty degenerati hi , of the heart, of Mr. C. H. Reynolds, formerly proprietor of the Southland Times.