NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5360, 21 January 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[rfiß " hkrall" special wire.] THAMES, Monday. K'_:rauui. — Battery Lev*d : The lode is just to lnnd on this levM. A party of four men will b.' put ou to strip it to night. Sbot*»vir Level : The r-et in the west face U a strong bo \y uf quWz, foir fees th'ck. There are excel iu tic -it'.ous for g Id. The rough amalgam o*. hau l is Mpu-. zed. A number «.-f south-ru caj.it ili;>ts visited the Moanataian and Kuranni mine 3 to-day. Sharemarke :—SiU-3 : Kurauui, 13-4 Gd to 14i 61: Mna- atnari, 37s Od to 403; Alburuia, 21a to 225. CO 110 M ANDS L, Monday. A new c'aim. cade I the Maydeld, was taken up on tlie line of t »t- big reef. Tokatea.— Coyle aud party have a good leader in hand The Queen of the *~Ofth have <:ot llOlbs. of t-ood picked stone from th - winze. An adopted datighrer of Mr. BoU, aged 13, was drow: e * ou .Saturday evening while Lathing. An iuqu»st was ' eIJ, and a verdict of 41 Accidental d- at:\ " recorded. G IS BO USE. Monday. Captain Potter interviewed many of the native claimun*s in t'aita ; n Head's estate, and feels assured that all ditii iulti-s may be amicably sel.de i by mutual consent. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. The Harbour Board Committee on charges made by Mr. Irving the engineer, ngainst Messrs. Kelly and W-ston. m-rabrrs of the B-ard, report that the conduct of Messrs. Kelly a'id Weston uas not improper ; and that having made such urave charges without foundation, and declined to withdraw them, it is inadvisable that Mr. Irvine should remain in the service of the Board after the 13th February. The Tarauaki Jockey Club bold an autumn meeting on th" 3l»fe March. The Waiwakaiho Bridge was set on fire to-day by a spark from an engine train setting tire to th* grass in the neighbourhood. Not much damage was done. The boating elub3 here have formed a unioD. Mr. K«1)3% M.H.R , has received a letter from the Minister for Public Works, stating that instructions have been given to have a survey of the Opunake railway commenced 13 soon as practicable. Captain Mor.-head, formerly of the 60th Regiment B-ngal Native Infantry, died today. aged 78. The railway contractors offer 12s a day for plate layers, Without r< eponse. All complain of the scircity of labour impeding public "WELLINGTON, Monday. ' The tire thi3 morning in Courtney Place was confined to a bak«-house. The damage done was slight. The premises were insured in the New Z-aland Company for £150. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a candle left lighted falling against some woodwork. It 13 proposed to give the Governor a banquet prior to his departure from Wellington. The Loan and Investment Company propose to pay 7£ per cent, dividend, which, with the interim dividend already paid, will raake 12 V per cent, for the year. A cottage, occupied by a brick-maker named Cooper, was bnrn-d last night by the bursting of a kerosene lamp. He is not insured. Edgar Bastings was to-day remanded to Chriatchurch on the charge of forgery. A seaman on hoard the s.s. Manawatu, named John Divis, has been arrested on a charge of neglecting to support his family at Lyttelton. lie offered to pay £L per week, but the Magistrate adjourned the case for further information. In two actions against the Tramway Company for damages to vehicles by collision, the Magistrate gave judgment for £10 and co^ta. The Stewart family opened most successfully at the Op ra-house* on Saturday night. All the papers speak iu the highest terms of " Rainbow Revels." News of the death in Christchnrch of Mr. H. M. Moor, late editor of the 2s 7 ew Ztataw/T, caused gwieral regret to-day. The Pout poii ts out that by a happy coincidence, the opening of the Jnvereargill and Dunedin Kailway is fixed for the 39th I anniversary of the .settlement of the colony, by the arrival of the first immigrants iu Wei- j lington. | The case of Miss Jonee against Wilson, , the principal of the College, has been further j adjourntd, as the defendant wants witnesses I who arc absent.

The ship Warwick, the last immigrant veesel of the feeuson, sailed from Plymouth on tlie 30th November, for Nela-.>n and Wellington, with 201 soul*, equal to 171 adults, 'or ail ports of the colony. Inforuiatioa which was received to-day, s ay& that the brigantirie Isabella, laden with Railway iron, got on ilie Waitara bar in entfrinjj, hut v.a- off a«ain without damage.

At the annual Primitive Mctho'list diaric - jneeting a resolution was passed, adthe formation of an Australian snfereiice. The examiners, the H ev, Jutton, F.R.A.S., and the Rev. J. D. AJumbel], reported th© result: of the recent examination to have been as follows :— ih.rd year : Rev. W. S. Potter, 82 ; Rev. ■ ".Jones, S9 Fourth year: Rev. Mr. _ e }'Eea, SO ; Rev, J. Guy, 96'. The maximum amber of marks obtainable is 100, and the *an?d ? t 18 8 1)1 y creditable * to the

A meeting of the committee of the New Zealand Rifle Association was held to-night. It fixed the date of firing at Nelson for Monday, the 3rd March. Subscriptions were received, and after the 18th February they will not be taken into consideration in the fixing of the prizes. An extraordinary general meeting of the Now Zealand Titanic Steel and Iron Company was held to-night. About twenty shareholders were present. The reporters were requested to withdraw, and were afterward informed that the following special | resolutions had been passed "1. That the following clause be added to the regula- ' ti-»ns of the company under the heading j 1 shares,' and numbered 4 1a.': There shall be two classes of shares, called special shares and ordinary shares. The special shar-s shall be paid up in full ou opplication, and ordinary shares shall be paid up by calls, from time to time as provided by the regulations. The directors shall have power, from time to time, to issue either of theso classes of shares to the public, nnd the nominal capital of the company (£50,000) shall, for the purposes of the regulations, be deemc'l to consist of 2000 special shares and 3000 ordinary shares. 2. That clauses Nos. 23 and 24 of the regulations of the company, under the heading, * Disposal of Surplus Shares,' be struck out, and the following clauses, as numbered, be adde<l to the regulations of the company in lieu thereof : — 4 Special Shares : (23) All special shares shall be entitled, until the declaration of a dividend by the company, to interest upon the amount p»iil into the company upon them from the date of such payment, at the rate of £0 per cent, per aumun. (24) The directors shall have power at any time to cancel the whole or any portion of said special shares by paying the holder thereof the amount paid by him t > the company, together with interest thereon, as provided by regalation 23.' " CHRISTCFIURCET, Monday. Mr. McPherson'a Leonidas and Javelin, noted horses, w» re both shipped North on Saturday. The first is for Tauranga, and the sccond goes back to Napier. Ifc is intended to cover the whole of tho railway platform with a reraodah. A large portion of tho ca9t of th« building i 3 ontirely unprotected from tho sun and rain. Two of the American engines, intended to work the trafHc between Dunedinaad Inverc.irgill, left for the South at an early hour yesterday morniug. A party of Dunedin bowlers paid a visit on Saturday to the railway workshop?, and expressed great surprise at the extensive character and number of hands employed, and the immense work in progress. They were she»vn over ths premises by tho Commissioner of Railways* During the last quarter 350 criminal caß#»s were reported, aud 3-S arrests ma 1e—275 males aud 53 females. Drunkenness is, of course, the chief offence, vagrancy next, then petty larcenj', in the order named. Altogether, there is au ine ease of four arrests over the preceding quarter. Rignold had a moderate house only tonight. The weather was cold, and the prices are too high. He is not likely to draw as present standard. The Napier Harbour Board case was resumed at the Supreme Court to-day, when three of the defeadaut's witnesses were examined. The case is tike'y to last two or three more days. A man, supposed to be a cook belonging to a surveyor's party, on the n> rth bank of the JRakaia, attempted to ford the river on Saturday evening, and has n«>t be-n heard of since. His horse was found all right, but the man, whose name is uot knowu, was probably, drowned, and his body washed far down, as the search party have beea unable to find it. TIMARU, Monday. At a meeting of the Harbour Board to-day Mr. Archer was re-ehcted chairman. A telegram was read from the contractor for a steam crane, which should have been delivered four months ago, that he h->ped to have it finished in a week or so. The Board unauimously resolved to j'iu with the Chamber of Commerce in rvsi.-ting the present proposals of the Government to extend the railway station acjomm .dation at the cost of the success of the harbour works. Chadwick, who lately attempted smcidc by stabbing himself, was comoiitici for trial at the District Court to-day. Bishop Redwood preachod here last night, and at the conclusion anuuunced that £2256 had been subscribed to erect Cttholio schools in Timaru. Father Chataigr.er gives a section of laud worth £020. DO'Js'EDIN", Mond.y. Between tsvo and three o'cl ck od Sunday morning, a brutal and rullianly assault was committed in a lane near the centre of thri city. Screaiu3 were heard half-a-inile away by two constables, who, on reaching the spot, found a great, hulking fellow nam*-d Obernaa, struggling in t l ie road with an unfortunate woman named Floury. The fa'je of the woman was covered with blood, and so seriously injured that she had to keep her head tied till this murniug. Her story to the Bench to-day was that she was followed by her assailant, who wanted to go home with her, and a3 she declined his company, he seized her by the hair, drove two teeth down her throat, tried to strangle her, aud threatened to kill her. The Inspector said the woman bore an indifferent chiracter, aud on the principle that give a dog a bad na ne you may hang it, the Bench let the ruflian off with a tine of 203. On the day of Major Richaidson's funeral some boys broke into a branch powder* magazines aud took away a quantity of detonators. These dangerous machines, which are used for mining purposes, wore circu lated among the Christiau Brothers Schools, and one of the scholars incautiously pricking a detonator with a pin, had three of his fingers blown off. The boys who stole the detonators were brought before the Bench to-day and severely repnm aided. The North east Valley Borough Council this evening signed an agreement with Mr. D. Proudfoot, for the construction of abut two miles of tramway up the valley. When completed, the tramway will extend 52 mfles from the North east Valley to Caversham, and almost the fame district from the valley to the Ocean Beach. A private telegram states that the Rev. A. R. Fitchett was ordained by the BNliop of Melbourne on Sunday, and will leave per s.s. Rotorua for Dunedin to-morrow. During his recent visit t > Marawhenua goldfields, ProfessorUltich professed himself much pleased with the appearance of the district, and said that in Victoria such a field would attract a large mining population. The great drawback to the district is the want of water. On Saturday night the grocery store of Mr. Peter Rutherford, situated on the main road, Caversham, was completely destroyed by fire. The stock was insured in the New Zealand Insurance OfEcs for £1000, the building also for £1000 ; and the furniture in the South British for £200. The Rev. D. Roseberry last night supported the introduction of the Bible into the schools. He said he had been trying to carry on a Saturday afternoon Bible classtie immensely appreciated the self sacrifice of the children 'who come to the claBS, but he regretted every time he met them that the daily abeorption of their time in the public schools left him no alternative but to take a slice out of their Wt ekly holidays. He said, " Rob not the children." The crush of lessons, day and night, left scarcely any opportunity for Bible-teaching at home. The Tablet, writing on the Chinese question, says : " Common-sense and the necessity for self-preservation muat reject them. The naked truth stares us in the face. If the Chinese come here, all of us except a handful of millionaires wi'l be reduced to want and degradation." The s.s. Hinemoa, with the Hon. J. Macandrew, Hon. J. Ballance, and Mrs. Ballance arrived this morning. The opening train to Invercargill is to leave Dunedin at 12.15 a.m. on Wednesday, and arrive at Invercargill on the afternoon of the same day. At the Synod, to day, the committee appointed brought up an answer to the protest on the new professional chair. Uj on the principal ground of dissent, the following answer was made: "The Synod is aa strongly convinced that a chair of moral philosophy and political economy would be as much in accordance with the purposes for which the fund was originally sot aside, as a chair of English language, literature, ;«nd rhetoric, because the fund was origiually designed for the elementary schools, but instead of so applying it, $he Synod obtained an Act of Parliament, under which the destination of the fund was charged to the extent of applying solely to endowments of a literary chair or chairs, so that any closer approach to the original destination than allowed by such power of endowment, is ultra vires of the Synod." Mr. Bright, the Free-thought lecturer, was very severe in his remarks ou tho Presbyterian Synod last night. He said the members called themselves watchers on the walls of Zion, but they were only the keepers of the keys of the dungeons of Calvin.