TELEGRAMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 28 February 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

'-* Cheistchuech, 27th February. The brig Dorwent, presented to the Naval Brigade by Mr. C. W. Turner as a training .ship, will be dooksd-and re-ooppered, <tc. She -was built in- 1834; and J*et when a test was made of her timbers yesterday, her garboard streak, 13 inches of solid oak, was found as troe as the day it was pnt in. The lioenaed victuallers' have returned their Candidates in the South-east Ward, in which new licenses can be granted. ' In the Magistrate's Court, a widow sued H. E. Nathan for £46, moneys exaessitely charged and distress illegally levied. The evidence showed that the plaintiff gave a bill for £60, and received £49. After paying £12 by weekly instalments she gave a renewed bjjl for £54 and paid £1 o? this, and then renewed for £56. , By Fobruary, aha had paid £19 off this, when the defendant required a new bill for £60. This the plaintiff refused, and the defendant levied a distress. The judgment was for the plaintiff , £20 excessive charge, and £10 illegal distress. The. following contributions hava been forwarded to the Harbour Board for a Sailors' Home at Lyttelton :— £26o each from Shaw, Savfll and Co., the New Zealand Shipping Co., C. W. Turner, and F. Cunningham. The Government hae given £500. The Board grants a pound for ever; pound j subscribed.' " , , ¦ Wanganui, 27th Febrnary. The body of a female child; a half-caste, apparently between two and three years old, was washed up on the beach thiß afternoon, a mile north of the Heads. Apparently it had been only a few hours in the water. There is no clue to its identity. This Day. , The County Council has received £2800, under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, for improving Feild's u»ok into the 1 interior. r ' ; Auckland, 27th February. I A new scheme for bringing out young girls to this colony as domestic servants from the rural districts of England has been laid before 1 Mr. Rolleston, the Minister for Immigration, by Mrs. H. A. SUtor. The Minister said he wonld consider it. At the Presbyterian Assembly the overture of the Timaru Presbytery, relative to the disjunction of certain Middle Island churches in order to negotiate lor the union with the ; Presbyterian Church of Otago, waa disIntelligence is to hand from Fiji lhat'jr M. Murray, formerly of Auckland, attempted to shoot his wife, proprietress of' the Royal j Hotel, Levuk*. from whom he is judicially Separated, and then threw himself into a ' crsek to commit suioide. He ,pow awaits his trial. , . , The proprietors of the Onehunga iron works have sent to America, per mail steamer, for the plant for nine additional furnaces, to be erected before the end of the year, for the treatment of Manukau iron sand. Captain Hume is effecting considerable changes in the Mount Eden Gaol to admit of the classification of prisoners. Mr. Cleary, the newly appointed governor, has been in a poor state of health since Ms arrival, and ia recommended by Dr. Goldsbro to go south for the benefit of his health. The Fiji papers of 17th instant state that a favourable reply has been received from the Union Steamship Company to the proposition of the promoters of the Inter-island

Stuam Navigation Company. Tim Union Compuny notify their \ulliii|!,'in'KH to undortako one-half of tho venturo, tho othor half beinif subsoribod by ronidont* of Lovukn. Mr. Mills, who is oxpected hero not later than April, will arrange tho details with tho promoters, and in tho moantiuio tho local quota of Bharoa ore being rapidly appliod for. Gbkymouth, 27th Fobruary. Mr. Thomas Lather Shepherd, formerly M.H.8.. aid lately* Clork of the Court at Charleston, suooeeda Mr. E. C. Rolling as clerk afXhtfSra (transferred to Wostport). The Kennedy btoughtjthe now light of tho aixth ordor for this poft, whioh will bo put up near the end of the stonework. • , , Dukkdin, 27th February. To a query as to what draught of vessel Could be taken ovar^the bjut, tho Secretary of the Otago Harbour BoelFhas replied that, under the present vireumstanoca, a ship drawing 23 feet could oorao over the bar easily, but the Board would not be justified in giving any 'pAsftm exptfesslon as to what the future may be. In the Polioe Court to-day, a firm of printers, two photographers, and a bookseller were each charged with a broach of tho OoftrrijAt Ao^in having sold photographs marked hl copyright," without having had the wopyright registered. Mr. Brandon, tho Registrar in Wellington, prosecuted, and wuh put th-.ough severe oroßs-examinatiou, iv \vhloh«no^rOTro rathar extraordinary facts f wero elioited, tram- as that he had hold out an offer to mjkpnly for a nominal fine if the deiendaatt, would ogroe to pay tho expenses of the prosecution. The Resident Magistrate reserved his judgment in the oasos. The Govoruor arrived here at C.40 p.m., and wab met by the Mayor, oivio dignitarios, and M.H,R.'s.\ To-night the oity will be e« ft'te in honour of hia arrival. This Day. Fully 12,000 persona, wero in tho streots last night to W^nkf |fa| fireworks display by tho* firemen in the Ootaron, in honour of the Governor's arrival. ' Mr. Poter Tresdor was knocked down by the horses in tho Governor's carriage and seriously hurt. Tho horses were frightened by the fireworks. ;Tho Goyern^r'alevee ;#ai;la>gely attended this afternoon. His Exoellonoy is to inspect the Hon. George M'Leau's stud, nnJ will to-morrow visit the harbour works. , .Patea, This Day. John Black, late treasurer to tho Patoa County Council, has been committed for trial for embettlemant' of oonnty funds. Othor charges against him will be hoard to-morrow, and in the meantime he ia out on bail. TitokQwaru'a tribe 1 wet passing through Patoa on a visit to Wattotarji. The old follow was afraid to oome himself at the lwit moment, and sent the chief Awauhor* as his representative. Thfs is the 1 first time thoso natives have bean this way Binoe tho war in 1868. , An information, was served on Georgo Beamish, lat« Oonfaty Dog-tax Colleotor, today, for embezzlement of oounty funds. Tho hearing ia fixed for Friday. Napibr, Thiß Day. After a long and angry oorrespondouoe between Mr. Sutton, M.H.R., as Chairman of the HospitaLand tho Government, rt tho maintenance or tho institution, the Colonial Sooretary has forwarded a oheque for tho £,1057 claimed bj tha Hospital Committeo Baring /ta.e inine tnantas ending the Slat I [ £ Oamaku, This Day. Some doubt exists whether the Oamaru volunteers will attend the InvoroargiU review. Tho garrison only have as yot doolared on fiavoun of [attending. The Major will call 'upon tlreWmp'anioß to give a final uißwer on Saturday. Nblbon, This Day. Tho Colonist's Takaka correspondent wiroß that a young man named Poter Or.onf jug killed at the mill of Mr. T. Baigont on jbtyrht through a junkor ruuniug