LATE TELEGRAMS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1369, 17 January 1896, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS

0 ( (By Electric Telegraph.) i BY OUE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ]

Bunedin, Jan. 16. It is stated that unless a spell of dry weather comes immediately the ryegrass seed crop will be a failure in the South. At Gore races yesterday Lupus wag second in the Hurdle Race, which was won by Come-away. The District Handicap was won by Lobo, who started a warm favourite. At yesterday's meeting of the Education Board an application from the Naseby committee to hive the asphalt top-dressed and the chimneys repaired was granted on con ditiou that the committee find half the cost. —lt was decided to decline the application for the removal of the school at Lauder.— The.JVlariumato Committee submitted plans of a s-ite and asked the board to get it conveyed and the school shi f ted : Mr Lobb, a member of the committee, wroi e protesting agaiust the site. It was agreed on the chairman's motion, to have the school shifted to the site recommended by the committee.— The appointment of two assistant inspectors is to be made by the Hoard at its meeting to-day. Seventeen applications have been received for the positions, all but four or five being teachers at present in the service of the board.

The following committees have nominated Mr Gallaway :—Forbury, Kaikorai, Mornington. High-street, George-street, Arthurstreet, St. Leonards, Lawrence, Waitahuna, and Portobello.

_ At a meeting of the Benevolent Institution Trustees yesterday a German who had been an innate of the Institution for "some tine, informed the trustees that he had been left some money recently, and desired before leaving to pay for his maintenance during the time he had been in the institution.

His Honor Mr Justice Williams yesterday agreed to a request of the provisional liquidators of the Colonial Bank to pay the first dividend of 10s per share. Dividend warrants will be sent to shareholders through the post in the course of a f.*w days. A meeting of shareholders will be held on the 22nd inst. to appoint permanent liquidators. The Governor with his family and suit's left Dunedin yesterday morning for the Lakes.

The City Council agreed last night to again advertise for offers of suitable sites for abattoir purposes. Professor Tubbs of Auckland, attempted suicide in Sydney, but did not seriously injure himself. At Lyttleton, Alexis Menant, charged with having an illicit still in his possc'ssioi! v was fined £SO or threo months' imprisonment. Sydsky, January 14. The death list on Tuesday has been largi-ly supplemented by deaths in the country districts. The weather is still comparatively cool and slight rain has fa'len in Sydney and along the coast. High temperatures continue to be registered inland ranging from 100 to 119 degrees. / Perth, January 15. Governmenthavedecidedtospeud£loo,ooo in sinking well tanks in the chief centres of Coolgardie goldfields. Pretoria, January 14. President Kruger threatened to cancel miners' licenses, and has made a Urge seizuro of property of the Union, indicating that he thus intends to confiscate the country. Owing to his knowledge of the existence of conspiracy President Kruger had made arrangements to mobilise the troops and surround Johannesburg. In his message to the Volkaraad, President Kruger asker' that the Assembly should, in its calmer moments, discuss the causes of the dastardly plot to overthrow the republic. He announced his determination to establish the rights of the Republic on a more secure basis. London, January 14. The wool sales opened very firm, prices having an upward tendency.