NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 51, 25 June 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL ITEMS. Acc kland, -Tune 21. Mrs Harris, wife of an ex-railway stationnmster at Auckland, dropped dead at her house at Ellerslie. A verdict of death from heart disease was returned at the inquest. Gisborne, -Tune 21. A Maori named Tuta Ngamu, aged ltf, committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree at Tuparua. Wellington, June 24. Sir Robert Stout presided at the tenth annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance to-day, at which delegates were present from all parts of the colony. The report showed an income of £719 and expenditure of £'736. The sum of £8 was subscribed in the room to wipe off the deficit. Sir Robert Stout was unanimously re-elected president for the ensuing year and vicepresidents were elected in the various parts of the colony. The following executive were elected: —Mrs Plimmer, Revs. Hallowes and Guy, Messrs C ollins, Dodgshun, Harding, Martin, Lankshear, Keith and Sims. On the motion of the Rev. F. W. lsitt a resolution was passed establishing a Prohibition Colonial Council to take charge of anylegislative action of colonial importance. This was all the business. The engine which fell on the Manawatu line is considerably damaged. To get it up again a line will probably

have to be laid along the old track used in the construction of the railway or else a temporary tramway 1:11 an incline. Three cars were derailed and some of the animals so knocked about that they had to be slaughtered at Johnson vi 111: ■. There was rut enormous attendance at the Riiik to-i:ight to welcome the Rev. L. M. Isiu, jl is ('-• imateu tlir-i i early MOOO iverc pre.-ent. Sir Robers Stout presided. A resolution complimenting Mr Isitt on his work in the temperance cause was passed. CmusTcurr.cu, -Tune 21. Seven hundred and seventy-eight applications have been received in Christcburch for sections on the Highbank estate, Rakaia, recently acquired by the Government. Besides these -100 applications were put in at Rakaia on Tuesday. The case of Ilartigan v. the Queen, in which ±'(>oo damages were claimed for the death of plaintiffs daughter through an accident on the railway, was concluded in the Supreme Court to-day, the jury returning a verdict for respondent. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day it was reported that 5)1 committees had answered the Board's circular in reference to irregular attendance. In 50 districts the: attendance were more or less irreguiar, and and in 11 the committees had no complaint to make. The Board decided to request the Inspector of Police for the North Contii'lmry district to instruct his oilieers to carry out the provisions of the School Amendment Act, lS'9-1. At a meeting of the Progressive Association of the following resolution was carried :—" That this meetingwishes to enter a most emphatic protest against some of the recent J.P. appointments as being of such a character as to bring this honorable position into the uttermost contempt."