LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 29th December.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 152, 30 December 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, 29th December.

At the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Ehrenfried, brewer, brought forward the present inconvenient way of collecting the beer duty. He said that every brewery should be conpidercd a bond, and the working tuns gauged from time to time, after which the Drewer oould do as he liked with his produce. The question was postponed. The Ifaipara natives, at a meeting, decided to invite King Tawhiao to visit Kaipara in February or March. In consequence of the proposed gathering at Kaipara, no Native Parliament will be held at Orakei at New Year. At the inquest on Hoani To Kere, who was killed at the Oxford races, Makaire Te Papei was committed for manslaughter. There was hard crosa-swearing by the native witnesses. A warrant is out for Frederick Box, charged with making a false declaration of enrolment as an elector for Franklyn North. Major Te Wheoro, M.H.R. for the Western Maori electorate, entertained 500 of his constituents at a dinner at Rangiriri, when the wants of the natives were discussed. Garden frnit is being greatly daraaged by the Acclimatisation Society's blackbirds. I Chri6Tchukch, 29th December. I Mr. G. L. Mellish, B.M. at Christchutcb, who died this morniatr, waa a native of Guernsey and an Oxford man. As a lieu* tenant in the Army, he caw service in the Crimea, and he also fought in tho Waikato war as captain in the 4th Waikato Begimont, Boon after his arrival in New Zealand. For some time he was Bottled in Canterbury, and in 1865 he became Resident Magistrate at Pioton, whence he was removed to Kaia«. poi. He became Resident Magistrate of* Chriatchurch on 15th Deoembor, 1874. He last eat on the Bench on the 19th instant, and was then co much exhausted that ho had to be helped home. He was 48 years of age. Mrs. Hellish, is also very ill. The Lyttelton Harbour Board has passed a regulation that all excursion steamers leaving the port must have a beat swung from the davits, to be ready in case of accident. By next mail the Harbour Board will receive a report from its consulting engineers at Home on the suitability of tho electric light for the Harbour, with an estimate of cost. The Board wishes to confer with the Borough Council on the advisability of lighting both town and harbour with the Brush or other electric light. The criminal calendar up to date contains only ten cases, and there is nothing among them cut of the usual run of crime. Dunedin, 29th December. In the case of the Police v. Wilhelmseo, for employing a boy alter 2 p.m. on Saturday, the Bench held that dusting boota was not within the meaning of the Aot. The police were also uosuccesaful in a case of Sunday trading. The funeral of the late ex-Judge Chapman took place to-day, and was largely attended. Nearly all the members of the legal profession in Dunedin were present. The steamer Penguin will come up the new channel to Dunedin for the first time tomorrow. The members of the Harbour lioard, City Council, and the Chamber of Commerce, will be on board. In a case heard te-day at the Police Court, Walter Rose, fruiterer, was char/red with a breach of tho Sunday Trading Ordinance by Belling fruit. He had one shutter down, and bis door partly open. Th<* Resident Magistrate decided that, as the hop waa not kept open so as to be offensive to persons passing on that day, the information would have to be dismissed.

Palmbbston Nobth, 29fch December. Mr. Sylvester Coleman, a member of the Borough Council, died this afternoon, aftei an illness of five months. Timabtt, This Dat. A strong north-wester is blowing to-day, bnt iB not violent enough to do damage. Two steamerß— the Weßtport and Waitaki— are alongside the wharf, held hard against it by the wind on their broadside, but are lying easily. Th« water supply is a great boon to residents in the mam Btreets, where it is used plentifully to lay the dust.