AUSTRALIAN. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 105, 4 May 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Stdnet, 3rd May. H M.S. Ringarooma sails for Auckland on Sunday. The court-martial on Paymaster Coulton, charged with embezzlement, has been commenced and adjourned till Monday. In the equity suit to tost the validity of payment of members otjtho Legislature, the Judge considered it would be better to have the argument taken before the Full Court, and with the permission of both parties dismissed the oase pro forma, in order to permit of appeal. Tho case against the Commercial Bank of Australia to recover possession of a cheque for £2700 and a deposit receipt for £7000, has been settled, the parties paying their own costs. The terms of settlement have not been allowed to transpire. (Received May 4, 11.15 a.m.) Stdnet, This Dat. The Legislative Assembly has negatived motions in favour of Universal Suffrage and the non-admittanoe of anyone to tho Civil Service who is not the holder of an doctoral right for the oolony. Melbourne, This Dat. The revenue for April shows aninoreoss of £28,000 ovor that of last April. Of this the railways contributed £10,000. For the ten months of the financial year there has been a comparative deoreaso of £197,000. Tho Colonial Treasurer estimates that the deficit at the end of the financial year will bo £112,000. The Intercolonial Railway Conference has finally agreed on a basis for the abolition of the differential rates ruling in the Border trade. Adelaide, This Day. Arrangements are being completed for the visit of an American baseball team to Australia. It will stay a week in Auckland. TARANAKI'S HARBOUR TROUBLES. ("PKIBa ASSOCIATION. | London. 3rd May. Mr. F. M'Guiro, M.H.R., of New Zealand, who is on a visit to England, Btatea that he has induced tbo New Plymouth bondholders to agree to arbitrate with the Now Zealand Government for the restitution of the 200,000 acres included in tho grant. SPORTING. ♦ I PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received May 4, 10.50 a.m.) London, 3rd May. At Newmarket to-day tho race for the One Thousand Guineas resulted as follows : —Mr. A. W. Cox's Galeottia, 1 ; Sir James Miller's La Sagesse, 2; Lord Rosebery's Gas, 3. Carbine and his son, the Novolette colt have arrived in good condition at Colombo, en route to England. The totalisator-reoeipts at the concluding day's racing of the local club yesterday shows an increase of £942 as compared with the figures for the corresponding day last jear, making a total inoreaso for this year's meeting of £1299, tho respective totals being —1895, £10,717 ; 1894, £9418. Mr. D. O'Brien, the well-known sportsman, left Sydney yesterday by the Hauroto for New Zealand. Mr. O'Brien is bringing over a colt by Splendor— Meditation. GENERAL TELEGRAM'- » (Our Own Correspondent.j Masterton, This Dat. Mr. D. J. Cameron has been eleoted Chairman of the Masterton Road Board. Obess association.] Auckland, 3rd May. Captain Baker, of H M.S. Katoomba, now in port, has sent in his resignation, and it has been accepted. Captain Baker is returning Home on private business, bnt his resignation will not take effect until he is relieved by his successor, who is shortly duo in Australia. At the enquiry into the cause of the failure of tho water supply at the Avondale Asylum fire, nothing has been elicited which would throw tho slightest light on tho reason for tho failure. Mr. H. M. Wilson, engineer to Waitemata County, has obtained three months' leave of absenoe from the Council, to take charge of the Government works between Galatea and Rotorna. At the Government auction eale of Rotorua town, suburban, and rural seotions—leaseholds for 99 years — the bidding for the town sections was spirited, and 108 sections wore Bold at a rontal of £215. Th.s Dat. The gold return of the Kapai- Vermont Co., Kuaotunu, is 4200z, from|264 tons ; and that of the Try Fluke '2Aioz for the month. ' ChrißTchurch, 3rd May. A meeting called to form a branch of the National a Bsociation of New Zealand to-night ; was attendod by 14 persons. Mr. Charles . Lewis was voted to the chair Speeoheß i were made by Messrs. Lewis, M. Donnelly, i G. Capper, and W. Wood, condemnatory of I the present Government, who were blamed . for the present depression in the oolony. > Tho meeting closed without any resolution ■ being passed. i Mr. W. Collins, MH.R., has received a 1 telegram from the Hon. W. P. Eeevea stating ' that the petition for an enquiry into the . arrangements of the Christchurch Hospital . will bo placed before Cabinet, i At a meeting of creditors of Arthur John 1 Cutning, bankrupt alleged that he had been asked to run an entertainment for St. Mary's ' Catholic School, but that, after he had gone i to certain oxptnse, he received a letter from ! Father Le Slenanfc dcs Chesnais declining to 1 be made responsible for any loss. Cnming ; went on with the entertainment, but at the . end of the first week had not enough to pay i the rent. The meeting adjourned so that Father Le Menant might bo heard. FLOODS ON THE EAST COAST. ♦ [By Telegraph.— Pbess Association] Gisborne, This Day. There has been a phenomenal downpour of rain here, three inches having fallen in the last 21 hours, making ten inohes in the last ten days, eqnal to a quarter of the average rainfall for a year. Laßt night it appeared as if a waterspout had burst over the town. The Herald's Wairoa correspondent telegraphs that the Opoiti river is in high flood. The Opoiti Bridge, a big structure over Dag's Chasm, has carried away. The loss to the Wairoa County Council will be from £3UOO to £4000. A good deal of stock has been drowned.