LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, 17 October 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, 15th October. The Board of Education has increased tho Inspector's salary to £s'>o, t as southern officials are paid higher than in Auckland. Akimihi Hinga, tho woman who preferred the charge of rape at the list session of the Supreme Court against Rudolph fcubritsky, has been committed for trial ' for perjury in her evidence. Similar charges ajrainat two other natives, who were witnesses in the case, have been withd-awu. John Russell, 'mate of the To Anau, ha 3 been fined £5 for a violent assault on?Qfeorgo Wilson, a seaman The captain agreed todischargo the seaman, and pay the wages due. He is to receive half the fine. Dunedin, 16th October. The foundation stone of the Freothoughfe Iyceum was laid on Saturday afternoon with some ceremony. Mr. R. Stotf t, tho President of the Frecthought A*BQciation, dolivered an address, cine gentleman ha 3 subscribed .£IOOO, on whioh interest at the ra'e of 8 per cent, is to be paid till the term'nation of the lease, tho principal not \ad pc repaid. Two others eich subscribed JJ3W, aud two othera .£2OO, towards tho building fond. TBIB Day. Two cottago3 at South Dunedin have been burned down. The insurances >r°re J675 in the South British, .£IOO in the Northern. Tho bu a h fires on the Peninsula on Friday are affirmM by th 3 oldeßt settlers to bo the severest known to tb.9tii. Large are*s of bubh, miles of fencing, and a nnmber of buildings havo been totally destroyed. Thousands of pottnda' worth of property has been lost. The Harbour Cheese Factory, whioh was among tho bnjldmgs burned, was insured with the Norwich Union for iJISO. Christchuroii, This Dat. On Saturday afternoon a man named Jossph Smelting was eoriously injure i by a fall of earth at Mr. Wakefield's brickworks, Upawa. H9 died yesterday evening. 1 he boating season was opened at Lyttelton on Saturday. Cartert)n, This Day. The following nominations were received for tho Wairaripa Jockey Club Spring meeting on Saturday -.—Birthday Cup-— Comus, tienorita, Petruuhio, Ika, Lady Ellen, Fly* citiher, Soukar, Orphan, Rose, Fugitive. County Plate — Comus, Stnorita, Petrncio, Mairi, Soukar, Danebury, flycatcher, Iks, Kose, Fugitive. Handicap Hurdles— Shanv

r^uk, Otangaki, Tho General, Danger, and Nikau. Nelson, This Day. A body, eupposed to be that of a new-born child, has been found here wrapped in female " clothes, and partly buried on an unformed road. The police are making inquiries. Auckland, This Day. The decision in the case of Garrard, charged ¦with personation, has bean reserved till Wednesday to allow the Magistrate time to look into the authorities quoted by defendant's counsel.