TELEGRAMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, 15th November.

Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 16 November 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, 15th November.

The" Mosgiel Woollen Company s report shows- that the balance on the year's operations available for distribution is .£4522. Tho directors recommend tho payment of a 10 per cent, dividend, absorbing and that the baianco of .£1722 be carried to the new profit and lo3s account. The additions during the year amounted to 13s 2d, and the stock and raw material now in tho hands of iho company aro valued at .£21,533. On Sunday morning lost Mrs. Kitto, wife of William Kitto, of Dumbarton Rock, cut hor throat with a dinner knife. The windpipe is partly cut, but tho main artery was not sevored. The woman has had occasional attacks of insanity, and no doubt was suffering from its effects at the time of tho rash act. Her husband has been from home for some few weeks, it appears, and is expected to return in a few days. She is likely to recover. In connection with the subject of wrestling, now creating some interest through the recent exhibitions at Christchurch, it should be understood that Strong, of Dunedin, holds tho champion belt of New Zealand for wrestling in the Border style, and also of Australia, as Thomas lost the hitter at the Caledonian games hce two years ago. The Caledonian Society's rules under which he holds it prevent him making a match for les3 than J550, but for that money or larger sums he by these rules ma.int.Aitm a standing challenge to all the colony. Tiff en, also, who held for twenty years the nine-stone champion belt of England, holds' the lightweight champion belt of New Zealand, and maintains^* similar standing challenge, which he extends to. any man in New Zealand or Australia, even of a stone over his weight. Tenders are about to. be called for a further section of the Otago Central line, which will carry the line 24 miles from its junotion with the main trunk line, and nine miles further will carry it to the Sutton, whioh will be the first point at which the line will be available for traffic. This Day. An information laid against Mr. Walters for unlawfully wagering and gaming was dismissed, on the ground that the room in which the totolisator was worked was not a publio place. Bluff, 15th November. Ms. J. G. Ward, the retiring mayor, was elected without opposition to-day.

Auckland, 15th November. Bishop Luck had an enthusiastic reoption from the Catiiolio community. Tho lev. Father Downey handed to tho Bishpp i beautiful bouquet of rod geraniums ana vhite roses (episoopol colours), wbioh hod >een arranged by Bishop Cowie and lespatched by him through Messrs. Healoy md Dignan, for presentation .to his fellow in this diocese. A crowdod public neoting was held in St. Fatnok's Cathedral n tho evening, when awdressos wore presented to him by the clergy and laity. At the election for the City Council for tho new Karangahape Ward, Dr. Wallis, who ivas opposed to tK6 'action "of the Council re Contagions Diseases Aot, was at the bottom of the poll, out of seven candidates. New Plymouth, 15th November". At the Harbour Board meeting it was sisked when tho Tailway to tho harbour works wus going to bo constructed. The chairman said, from a conversation he had with Major Atkinson, he understood that the Board would have to make it, and then the Government would work it for the Board. Christchurch, 15th November. The caisson for the Lyttelton Graving Dock was oompleted yosterday, and will be floated to its placo in a day ox two. It resembles in some measure an old line-of-battle ship, though considerably narrower amidships. Its .length is 62 feet, greatest beam, 19 feet, depth 28 feet. The Wesleyans iv Canterbury' have 4606 Sunday scholars, with 460 teachers. * The report of the committeo appointed to enquire into the charge against the master of the Ashburton Old Men's Home, of ill-treating an inmate, acquits him of the' charge, bnt censures him for not giving evidence at tho Ashburton Resident Magistrate's, Court when requested to do so by the poliae. > This Day. The contractor for the construction of tho patent slip at Lyttelton commenced work yesterday. v The Railway Lo&gue met lost night and appointed a committee to oolloct statistics relative to the various routes to tho Wost Coast. The League will meet evory week. Colonel Tupman and Lieutenant Cooko, who have been sent to Canterbury by tho British Government to observe tho Transit of Venus on 7th December, have nearly completed their preparations at tho Obsorvatpry at Burnham. They have occupied the buildings erected for the accommodation of Major Palmer, who took the observations at the previous transit, and have got the greater part of their instruments in position. Timahu, 15th Novembor. Captain Greenwood, of tho sohooner Young Dick, goes Home almost immediately to bring out the Timaru, the first of tho Timaru Collier Company's now boats. The vessel is expected to arrive in April next. Opunake, This Day. At a largely attended public meeting held here this weok, resolutions were adopted urging that the survey staff should be increased, that the settlement of the country should be prosecuted more vigorously than the native reserves. A Sub-Commissioner should be appointed. An influential committco was chosen to watch over matters affeoting the town and distriot, and colloct statistics relating to tho harbour, &o.