TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5584, 16 January 1879, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

[TIMES’ SPECIAL WIEE.] NEW ZEALAND. AUCKLAND, Jan. 15. Mr J. Boylan has been re-elected Chairman of the Harbour Board. The yacht Zodiac turned up last night, after being missing eight days. She bad put into Maharangi. The grocers’ early closing movement is likely to fall through. At the bankruptcy sitting to-day, Thomas Lonergan, tailor, appeared before the Court as a forsaken client to get bis discharge. The applicant said hiscaso had at first been placed in Mr Madden’s hands, and then ho had to do the work himself, The Judge said as apElicant had not complied with the forms of iw, ho was unable to grant the application. Mr Madden has gone to Wanganui. NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 15. Complaints are made through the papers of the mails not being sorted on Sundays when steamers arrive, or until the morning after the arrival of the mail by coach. The staff consists only of tho Postmaster, a cadet, and a messenger, which the Herald says is not sufficient. It advised tho public to agitate till the grievance is rectified. Tho discharge of coal vessels at Waitara is greatly delayed by tho want of railway trucks.

The Herald publishes the following from To Awamutu:—" It is comet that Bowi starts for Taupo on Jan. 18 to gather the Natives, and it is intention to go across the boundary lines and form a now settlement on the disputed lands, his own tribe turning against him. Tainui, who accompanied him to Waitara, has turned against him and gone back to the King’s old place. WANGANUI, Jan. 18. A man named Scott was to have crossed the river yesterday on a half-inch wire rope, but owing to u strong wind the attempt was postponed to Saturday. The charge against Sergeant Donnelly and Constable Buchanan of committing a breach of the peace by fighting in the streets, will be heard to-morrow. WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. The Hew Zealander has a long leader justifying the conduct of the Ministry in com*

muling Welsh’* sentence. It says—"lt appears that Minister* are not satisfied that the prisoner was in a reasonable state of mind when ho committed Ids fatal crime. Of course, when doubt onoo invaded the Cabinet it might safely bo inferred that tho culprit would not bo consigned to the scaffold. From what we know of tho cose, wo should say that most men would bo likely to decide that, if tho capital punishment is to be retained at all, few cams could present stronger reasons for the sentence to bo carried out) nut, after all, that is only saying that the unhappy wretch wou'd hare met with a sterner measure of tho vengeance of tho law if ho had happened to fall into other hands than the existing Cabinet. The humane sympathies of tho Premier will bo the target at which reproaches will bo hurled by those whoso temper disposes them to be adverse to the Judgment of tho Cabinet. It is not tho first time that Sir Geo. Grey has been content to encounter a storm of dissatisfaction for preserving a fellow creature from tho ignominious doom of a murderer. The ease of Tricker, whom a subsequent Governor of the Colony restored to tho liberty which he now enjoys, is not yet excised from his memory." The Governor and suite leave per Arawata on Feb. 21. They will probably go overland from Christchurch to tho Bluff,

The Governor, it appears, asked the Ministers to give him the Hinemoa to take him to Melbourne and bring Governor Robinson bock, but they replied regretting that the steamer could not be spared from New Zealand waters.

Mr Dignan is to bo at once called to tbo Legislative Council. The conduct of the College Governors in discussing the re-organisation of the staff with closed doors, is severely condemned. They are understood to have resolved to retain the services of the present principal, Mr Wilson. S. J. Hill, who was recently in gaol for contempt of Court in persecuting his wife contrary to the injunction of the Court, is again in trouble, having been remanded on a charge of threatening language towards his wife’s shopman. The Forest Queen is not much injured, and may possibly be got off. The question of Post-office Savings’ Banks has been considered by the Education Department, and the system will be introduced when the schools reassemble. Books have been prepared by the Postal 'Department which will render the account keeping a very simple matter. It will rest with the local School Committees to appoint trustees and treasurers, and in many cases the master will probably undertake the duty of cashier. Any scholar having saved 6s will be able at once to transfer his account to the Post-office Savings’ Bank without expense, as the two Banks will be connected.

The seventh Now Zealand district meeting of the Primitive Methodist connection is being held in Wellington this week. A large number of delegates from all parts of the Colony have arrived in the city, and it is anticipated that the proceedings will be of an important and interesting nature. The opening sermon was K bed last evening by the Rev B. J. Westat the Sydney street church. To-night an ordination service will be held at the same church, when the Rev James Gay, who arrived from England last July, and has since been assisting the Rev J. Ward at Dunedin, where he has achieved a considerable amount of popularity, will be fully admitted to the ministry. Several more of the Hermione immigrants will probably be released from quarantine this week.

TIMARU, Jan. 15. An inquest was held yesterday touching the death of Mary Connor, who hanged herself at Waitohi flat on Monday. A verdict of “ suicide while labouring under temporary insanity,” was returned. The girl had only been in the Colony about a year. DUNEDIN, Jan 15. A. G. Seymour, a bookseller and traveller, who was proceeded against by his employer on about naif a dozen charges of embezzlement, larceny as a bailee, and forgery, was finally discharged this morning. The accused had been entrusted with books to sell on commission, but had stuck to the money, disposing of the books in several ways, some of them finding their way to the pawnbrokers. He managed nis defence with great adroitness and ingenuity, and to this may be attributed his escape from justice. The Presbyterian Synod resumed its sittings this morning. Notice of motion has been given recommending the establishment of a Chair of English Literature and Rhetoric at the University, with the surplus of the Presbyterian Education Fund. Another notice suggests that the Presbyterian Land Act should bo altered so as to allow of the money being devoted to the Bursaries and to the pupils of the High School entering the University. The Presbyterians have already two University chairs, maintained at a cost of £I2OO per year. POET CHALMERS, Jan. 15. At the Annual Convocation of Joyce Loyal Arch Chapter, No. 942, E.C., last night, a large assemblage of visitors and members were present. Companions Ritchie, C. De L. Graham, and W. Murray were installed os Z. and J. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 15. At a meeting of the Bluff Boating Club held last night, it was decided to send a crew to compote for the Champion Four-oared prize at the forthcoming Henley Regatta, Burton’s Australian Circus is being well patronised. [FEOII OUB OWN COHHESPONDBNT.] DUNEDIN, Jan. 15. The opening of the Amberley-Invercargill lino for through traffic has been definitely fixed for Wednesday, Jan. 22. The journey from Dunedin to Invercargill will occupy six hours and a-half. An express train will leave Dunedin at 9, and another will leave Invercargill at 9.30. They will meet at Clinton at 12.30, where lunch will be served. The express from Dunedin will stop at Milton and Olutha. The Waste Lands Board to-day considered the disposal of 21 runs, the leases of which fall in March next. Eighteen are very rough country, and will bo re-leased for pastoral Sosos. Three that will carry more than sheep will be cut up. Portions of runs 98, Toschemaker’s, and 99, Webster’s, amounting to OOOOacres, in the Kawarau district, will bo sold as rural land. All the single girls by the Oamaru wore engaged to-day at from £3O to £4O a year. The ease of Stewart v. Brogden, an action to recover £6OO 8s 6d, being the balance due on a railway contract at Mosgiel, which has occupied the Supreme Court three days, was finished to-day. A verdict was given for the amount claimed, which defendant now paid into Court.

The following is the correct reading of a recent cablegram: “ The Pope in an encyclical has appealed to the German Bishop to inculcate upon Roman Catholics obedience to the laws of the Empire, and especially to the law recently promulgated against socialism, and ho prays at the same time for leniency at the hands of the secular power for those who have offended."

It was stated at the University Council meeting yesterday, that when the University buildings are completed, which will be at the end or March next, they will have oost £71,198. Allusion was made to the circumstance that tbe Hon Mr Maoandrew and others had thought suitable buildings could be erected for £17,000, while the professorial residences alone had oost over £7OOO.