TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5598, 3 February 1879, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

NEW ZEALAND. [TIMES* SPECIAL WISE.] ■AUCKLAND, Feb. 1. The candidates spoken of for the City West vacancy are Messrs J. Dignan, Solicitor, David Goldsmith, and W. J. Hart. The Bev Charles Bents, late of Glasgow, has been appointed Minister of St David’s Presbyterian Church, Symonds street. The ketch Adah has been awarded the Regatta Champion Prize. t ‘« mSisQTm, pbb. 1. .; The Wellington land Hutt Building Society shows a profit of £3226 ; 17a fid‘for the year, equal to-nearly £3per share.; -Last year the profit was only£l os lOd per-share. _ i The , dwelling house of Philip Gooden, Carterton, has been' burnt, with all the contents. The origm of the fire is unknown. It was insured in the New Zealand Company lor £l5O, ;■ ia. • ■ „ Welsh’s fate will not be decided till Mr Sheehan’s return, vriilih is expeotod early next week. ■ * The Court of 'Euqrdrjf.'into the dispute between the Sarveyqr-Gknerftl aud Chief 'Surveyor Jackson is 'Proceeding. The’ Eon M* ■Buckley attends. a4’ counsel for .Mr Jackson. M the proceedings are recorded by a shdrthandrepqrter. ; ■ ; ,; Olarki trhder-Secfetary, Native Office, retires on a pension at the end of the month. It is expected that Mr Jas. Maokay will succeed. The Wellington Gold Cap, manufactured

by Eohn and Co., weighs 17c a of 18 carat gold. A boy, son of Mr Shannon, J.P., was knocked down by a horse in the street last night and his leg broken. The ketch Forest Queen has been, floated off Otaki beach. The Hyderabad is still in the same position. The Pelican is likely to be got off. The schooner ashore at the mouth of the Manawatu is the Pelican, owned by Mr Aitken, of Oamaru, and chartered by Mr Williams, of Wellington. She is coal laden, from Greymouth to Foxton. At the sale of Mr Barton’s township of Petone to-day, sections realised £3 14s per foot. i .

The Post says “We find on enquiry that the falling off in the postal revenue u only apparent and not real, arising from the fact that Treasury abstracts are made up before complete returns come in. Thus the revenue or £47,658 in reality shows the receipts for five months. The amount actually received was £51,730, besides £6oooreceived on account of the English service, and an amount of £3OOO still to be received. This makes a total of £60,750, or half of the estimate for the year. As, however, the second half-year always produces a considerably larger revenue than the first, as fees for taxes,- &0., are paid in the third quarter, it is expected that the revenue will largely exceed the estimate.” : The price of gas is likely to be reduced here next month. Feb. 2. About 3 a.m. to-day a collision occurred off Ohau Point, between the steamer Go-ahead, from Wanganui to Wellington, and the steamer Huia, from Wellington to Wabganui. The Go-ahead had her bulwarks, port bow, and covering board smashed. The Huia went om and it is not known what damage she sustained. OAMABU, Feb. I. The Customs* Bevenue received at Oamara for the month of January was £l7ll 11s, as against £1145 6s Bd, for the corresponding month of last year. The schooner Clyde, washed ashore at Tamutu, left Oamaru yesterday morning, with a cargo of produce for Auckland. She had on board, besides her cargo of produce, Captain Bishop, six men, and Mr John Bennett, a passenger. She was owned by Mr Frank Guy, of Sydney. DUNEDIN, Feb. 1. A telegram just received from 1 Gore states that Mr Conyers passed a restless night. His condition is unaltered. He is very drowsy, and conscious only at intervals. The Otago Daily Times has an article today denouncing sensational preachers. It says “ Can anyone point to any lives reformed or permanent good effected by Dr Somerville’s visit, and now we are asked to listen to another and far inferior man of the same stamp. We regard the tendencies of this kind of sensationalism as pernicious, both in the interests of religion and of morality. It will leave many an ardent young man like a candle prematurely burned down into the socket, and disgust so many more that Hr Bright’s followers are likely largely to increase their numbers.’’

At Mr Varlej’s meeting in Knox Church last evening, the preacher was assisted by Mr Brunton, ox the Plymouth Brethren, and they gave an illustration of faith by one telling the other that he held a knife in his closed hand, and asking if he believed it. Before closmg the meeting, Mr Yarley invited those willing to put trust in Christ to stand up, but out of the 700 present none responded. The Minister of Public Works and AttorneyGeneral have been well deputationised during the week. To-day an announcement appears on their office doors that Ministers ore out of town.

Fbb. 2. The vital statistics for Jan. are—Births, 145; deaths, 43; marriages, 34. The Vestry of All Saints, Dunedin, met the £ev A. H. Fitchett last night for the first time, when the rev gentleman read his license from the Bishop’s Commissary (the Yen. Archdeacon Edwards) to officiate for twelve months within the parish.

The Customs’ duties received at Dunedin for the month of January amount to £34,390 Is 6d, made up as follows:—Spirits, £7546 12s : New Zealand do., £251 4s 6d ; cigars, £867 14s 6d; tobacco, £298110s 6d; wine, £978 14s lOd; ale, £647 3s 9d ; do., in bulk, £lO9 ss; tea, £3300 6s 6d; coffee, £205 15s Id; sugar, £3564 16s; opium, £144; goods by weight, £2319 6s 8d; ad valorem, £9935 2s 7d ; other duties, £1553 9s Bd. A fire broke out in the wooden portion of the Hospital yesterday evening, about seven o’clock, but was observed before much damage was done, and extinguished by a few buckets of water.

Several new buildings of a highly imposing character are nearly completed in this city. The Royal Exchange Hotel, opposite the Bailway Station, will be the tallest building of the kind in New Zealand. Jones’ Hotel in Princes street, Just on the eve of completion, has the handsomest front of any building in Dunedin. Near the Bailway Station a whole block of new structures are going up, including the Volunteer Drill Shed, the Daily Times office, and a substantial, though excessively plain, suite of - warerooms, erected by Mr Donald Held, late Minister of Lands. The negotiations between the evening papers connected with the Associated Press and Eeuter’s Agent in reference to cablegrams, are progressing unsatisfactorily. INVERCARGILL, Feb, 1. Great interest is being taken in the Harbour Board election. Four candidates have been nominated for the two seats for Invercargill Yesterday two candidates were nominated for one seat in the suburban municipality of Southland. The Times complains of the delays to merchants of the goods transit on the railway, and blames the Dunedin station. The travelling post-office attached to the express is much appreciated.