Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9266, 28 April 1892, Page 3

Telegraphic.

(PER UNITED PBEB3 ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Wednesday. At the annual meeting of the Granc Lodge of Now Zealand Freemasons to day there was a good representation oi members, Tbe balance-sheet showed ( balance of £210 and tbe benevolent fane ol £230. The report states that a mucl better feeling exists between the New Zea and tbe other constitutions. A meeting of tbe University Student* AjttciAtion has been convened to con Mjfiniatters conneoted with tbe Uni VBraity. It is understood that the majority of tbe students are averse to a masica professorship, and consider that a teache of modern languages should be appointei instead. The steamer Ilichmond has arrived iron an Island cruise, bringing a large enrg of tropical produce. Sbe reports nffaii S [diet at Raratonga and Tahiti, lie th oss of the bbrque Clara, burned at set reported by cable, the Richmond report that one boat reported to be missing we rescued by Mr Brough of Tahiti. Th other boats have also been picked up an taken to San Francisco, The cause < the fire is supposed to have been spot taneous combnstion In the cargo i coal. Wanoanui, Wednesday. An accident happened here this afte noon whereby a yoang man named Ale; ander Simpson lost hU life. He wi riding on the box seat of a cab with »• driver named Kinnaird about four and half miles out of town, when the hor took fright while crossing a small brld over a creek and bolted. Simpson w thrown off and died before a doc) arrived. Patea, Wednesday. A land slip of considerable magnitu occurred this morning about halt a m Dortb of Patea station, preventing t train proceeding beyond bere. Tbe son train from Hawera connected at the si Tbe passengers, mails and luggage, wi transferred, Tbe permanent way is co pletely lifted out of its bed for a ci slderable distance. The tine is not liki to be open before Friday, Wellington, Wednesday The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Cc pany's steamers will in future leave i colony on Thursdays instead of Sat days, The maximum amount for New Zeali and intercolonial money orders is to raited from £10 to £20 lrom the proximo, - and money orders issued «nstralia and Tasmania will be paid New Zealand. The rates of commise on orders drawn In tbe colony will b For payment in New Zealand— From to «5, 6 d; from £6 to £10, Is ; from to £15, Is 6d ; from £16 to £20, 2s. oroew payable in Australia the exeba The totalisator cases have been p poned for a week. t A yonng man named Alfred Rich Bon, a bootmaker, committed suicide banging. He had been depressed ppirits for some time, and was to ionnd stißpended to a tree In Po gully,

Tbo man James Pearce, who, wl mof eDgaged unloading the steamer Wai alls, yesterday, was strurk by a basket : the coal, died in the hospital today, •sons The nces have been postponed m •elve FiJday, owing to the wet weather, Tlic ironmasters havo refused to cognise the new regulations put forw ived by the boilermakere, and have practice t at told the men that they can go out if tl item 'ike. It is not thought, however, tl well there will be a strike, reen Latek tbe Mr J. K. Blair has been re-eleci ping chairman of tbe Education Board, ken Colonel Fraser claims £2000 in Iby nclioß against the Evening Press, i lose Robert Stout and Mr Jellicoe have be ied : retained for the plaintiff. The case w ■er), uo heard at the next sittings of t the Supreme Court in Wellington. Phe Mr O'Hara Smith, who has for sot ied. too been stationed in the Aucklai the district as one of the audit inepectoi )f a has returned to Wellington. His pla een will be taken by Mr George Easton, no !Srs one of the auditors at the Public Tru er ) ) Office, who has been permanently pr ive moted to the rank of audit inspects uer and will have charge of the audits io f local bodies' accounts in a section of tl age Auckland provincial district, the Among tbe points raised is tbe Palme ce j t aton North ease of the Attorney-Generi 'he against the Bail way Commissioners, whic ere has been before the Appeal Court for tt last two days, is the important queatio whether the freehold of parts of publi ■ e( j roads and streets can be taken by pri )D olamation for railways and other pnbli to works. This is of course distinct frot )ge the power to run a railway along a roa n withont "taking" the same. It is sai 1,3 that parts of roads have been from tim re to time taken in different parts of th colony for railways and other publi works. Judgment in the case has bee reserved. fj, Christchubch, Wednesday. '" At the R.M. Court this momini " Captain Romeril, of the steamer Kahu ~j was charged with cruelty to animals ii overloading his vessel with sheep on thi ?; passage from the Cbathamsto Lyttelton ]}' A large number died on the last passage • The prosecntion was taken np by tbi y> Society for tho Prevention of Craelty Ii 16 Animals, but as # the defendant's vessel ii ?' at sea, the hearing was adjourned, ie Ddnedin, Wedßesday. „ A deputation from the School Commis. , b sioners wilted on Mr M'KeDßle yesterda} ,f and urged the setting apart of a block ol „ land at the foot of Te Anan for settlemenl j purposes, The Miuister replied that U j years' leases should never liava beet „ fiiven. These educational trusts were g badly managed, nnd it would be bis duty y when the time came to give notice in the B House on the matter. Mr Reynolds : ; . " And it will be my duty to Rive it my s most strenuous opposition." MrM'Kcozio , knew the land was necessary for settle- • ment purposes, and thought 2000 acres , shonld bo set apart. The deputation 3 explained that it wbb their intention to , locate a village settlement for tho accommodation oi tourist?. The solar eclipse was not visible here, I owing to the amount of snow clouds obscuring the sky. A deputation trom the Pharmacy Board wailed on Mr M'Kenzie, urging the delaying of the operation of the Order-in-Council relative to the sale of strychnine and arsenic until the new Poisons Pharmacy Bill, which the Board will introduce 1 at tbe ensuing session, and which has been approved by all the chemists in the colony, has been considered. This bill 1 allows the sale of poisons ouly by regiftered chemists. Mr M'Kenzie requested that tho matter should take the form of a petition, which be would present to the Colonial Secretary. LATERj The Minister for Lands left here to-day i for his home at bhag PoiDt, • The Six Mile Beach Company obtained ) Il5o?.8 4dwts of amalgam for 124 hours. > At a meeting of the City Council this . evening a letter was received from the > Undersecretary statin*; that the Harbor s Board having brought before the GovernI men t the matter ot tbe dispute between the [ City Council and the Harbor Board as to the discbarge of drainage into the harbor the Colonial Secretary thought it a snbjcct 1 which might well be submitted to arbitrai tion, one of the arbitrators to be elected 1 by the Corporation, one by tho Harbor ', Board, and one by tbe Government. It was pointed out that if tho matter were ! submitted to arbitration it might involve an expenditure ot £100,000, as tbe decision of the arbitrators would be final, and it might be to the effect that drainage must not be discharged into the bay. Tho report of Mr K. Uuy, C.E., as to the Uoss Creek reservoir was of are* assnring nature. The investigation, however, had failed to account for the " plump " in the embankment. *■ INVERCAnoiLL, Wednesday. The Liverpool owners of (he Compadrr, wrecked last year ot the Auckland Islands, have sent £10 in recognition of the bnmanltaiian action of the Government in providing food and clothing depots. The Matino Department expended (he en m in extra necessaries to bo transmitted at tho first opportunity. Some diggers nt Wilson's River, Fiord county, are making £2 per day p?r man. The grain troilio on the Southland railway is tremendously heavy, necessitating specials to meet the rush. At yesterday's meeting of tho Land Board tho Chief Commissioner Hated that a writ of appeal had been applied for in tbe Supreme Court against the dcci.-inn f»r forfeiting tlio perpetual lease held by J. B. Bftstiin, for 1400 acres of pastoral laud at Centre Hill.