LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1621, 1 May 1879, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

NEW ZEALAND. [from our own correspondent.] TIMARU, April 30. The Customs revenue collected in Timaru during the month ended to-day was £2586, showing an increase of £921 8s Id over the the corresponding month of last year. The Registrar’s returns for the month are 26 births, 10 deaths, and 14 marriages. The deaths show a marked decrease compared with the few previous months. The report which has been spread abroad that Captain Hamersley, of the Timaru volunteers, is to be summoned to appear at Dunedin police-court for riotous conduct in the Arcade is a fabrication. The Borough Council resolved last night to reduce their engineer’s salary from £750 to £6OO, owing to the want of funds. During last month the vessels which arrived in Timaru aggregated over 6000 tons register. A large number of tickets have been sold for the Q-overnor’s ball, and it is estimated that about 300 persons will be present. MALVERN, April 30. Messrs Blair, O’Connor, and party arrived here to-day, having finished exploring the different, proposed railway routes, the Waimakiriri Talley being the last inspected. The report is premature that any route is yet decided upon. [Press Special Wire.] A LTOKL \NI), April 30. A telegram from Cambridge, Waikato, says that great indignation and surprise are expressed here at the withdrawal of th Putatore lands from going through the Court at its ensuing sitting. Natives and Europeans are united in condemning the action of the Government in the matter, as it will have the practical effect of shutting up the back country beyond Cambridge. At the Police Court to-day, Alfred Perker Brown was charged with attempting suicide aboard the ss. Wellington, on the passage from Wellington to Auckland, on the 28th April. Sub-Inspector Pardy said Brown was in a state of delirium tremens. He was remanded till Bbh May.

WANGANUI, April 30. Melchior Erei, convicted yesterday of unlawfully wounding with a stone, was sentenced to throe months’ hard labour. The case against Worgan, for forging and uttering, is now proceeding. WELLINGTON, April 30.

During April there were 104 births and 56 deaths registered in Wellington, and 31 marriage certificates issued.

The treasurer of the Kaitangata Belief Fund acknowledges receipt of the following sums :—Collection in General Government Buildings, £BO 10s ; per Masonic Body, £92 15s 6d. The total amount received to date is £llO9 18s lid. In addition to this, over £IOO has been collected amongst the officers of the telegraph department, and some small sums have yet to come in from the same source. A party from the Geological Survey Department, headed by Mr McKay, has just returned after an exploring tour on the West Coast and North-west of Nelson provincial district. They have been out since November last. The district examined is very rough in its physical features, abounding in mountains up to 6000 feet in altitude, so that the party suffered considerable hardship. One result of the trip is the collection of a splendid lot of lower palaeozoic fossils, very rich in forms of life that have only been found in the oldest formations in other parts of the world.

During a recent visit to the North, Dr. Hector obtained from White Island samples of water, with the view of determining their exact nature. It is found that the water in Lake Hope contains a large percentage of muriatic and sulphuric acids, and that the boiling springs which surround the lake contain only muriatic acid. The sulphur works recently established seem to be abandoned, though a house had been erected and largo piles of sulphur had been got ready for shipment.

The police this afternoon made a raid on those shopkeepers who are in the habit of hanging their wares outside their shops, and compelled them to remove their goods. The waterworks committee has decided to recommend that an additional water supply should bp obtained from Wainui-Omata.

The Government are prepar .ig a memo, sotting forth various pansitie insects which affect sheep, and explanatory of their action up oil the animal and its woof. The memo, is drawn up by Dr, Hector, and is illustrated by marginal cuts of several parasites. U is intended to publish this paper along with the Scab Act, and the forms required under the same.

The Government presented the Working Men’s Club with tl copy of all Parliamentary papers in print up to this time, some two hundred ■rolmnCfS or.so, all nicely bound. Tno Collector of Customs, after the conclusion of the preliminary enquiry into the wreck of the schooner Ruby, determined that no further enquiry was necessary, as Captain Backstrom was in no way to blame. OAMARU, April 30.

The school committee to-hlght decided to adhere to fchnir former resolution* and declared to recommend any candidates for appointment to the vacant head mastership of the north school, and second mastership of south school, until the whole of the applications are placed before them. As the head master of the north school will leave in a few days, education in that school will be brought to a standstill unless the Board give in. The committee are determined to maintain their right to inspect all applications. ( DUNEDIN, April®*

The annual session of the Otago University commences to morrow, There are sixteen candidates for the matriculation examination and three for the preliminary examination in medicine.

The Governor and suite to-day visited the Mosgiel Woollen Eactory Company’s works. To-night they attend the choral concert, and to morrow at noon his Excellency holds an undress levee.

The vital statistics for the Dunedin district for the month ending April 30th are —Births, 155; deaths, 58; marriages, 54. For the corresponding period of last year the returns were—Births, 159 ; deaths, "41; marmges, 37. There have been more marriages during the month ended to-day than in any month during the last five years. Mr George Grant, the secretary of the Dunedin committee, at an Interview yesterday morning, presented to His Excellency a report by the committee as to the result of their labors hitherto in aid of the exhibition. The report was considered in detail by His Excellency, who takes the keenest interest in everything connected with the exhibition. His Excellency expressed the greatest pleasure on ascertaining how zealously and successfully the exertions of the committee had been met, and said that from what he had seen ho anticipated that the contributions from Dunedin and its surrounding district would bear comparison with those from any other in New Zealand. As a manufacturing centre he anticipated the greatest prosperity for Otago. A meeting of the Harbor Board was held to-day, to consider certain statements made by Mr Neil, one of the members at the last meeting of the Board. As the discussion soon became warm the Board went into committee. INTERCARGILL, April 30. At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, a notification was received from the Colonial Bank, raising the rate of interest on the overdraft from flight to nine per cent. It was decided that negotiations for Coating the Board’s loan in the London market through the Colonial Bank should be opened up. The minimum price was disclosed at 95.