NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5396, 4 March 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PER " HERALD" SPECIAL WIRE.) [PHESS ASSOCIATION'.] WELLINGTON', Monday. The Premier goes North almost immediately to attend the native meeting at Orakei. £21,000 was paid to-day as stamp duty on the will of the late"SY. B. Rhodes. £10,000 more was to be paid this month. Mr. C. \V. Sehultz, an old Ee'tler, died suddenly from heart disease last night. Mr. T. E. Youog, interpreter to the A;se : nbly, is appointed Judge of the Native Linda Court. A meeting of officers of the M.U., O. 0.F., is called to take step 3 to relieve the Kaisufferers. Tho Chronicle gives currency to a rumour that Government will not appoint any Speaker of the Legislative Council, but will introduce a bill to allow the Council to elect one. The "Wellington transhipped at Nelson some immigrants for Auckland and Taranaki, just arrived in the Warlock. A mac named Stebbing was arrestedon board theLoraine on its arrival from London yesterday, charged with embezzlement and forgery in Lincoln. A London detective arrived on the previous day, via Melbourne, but the arrest wa3 made by a local detective, the London man having missed the ship by going to the Heads to board her. The Regulation of Mines Act, 1874, came into force on the 2Sth February. HOKITIKA, Monday. The Jackson Bay Commissioners met this morning at the Resident Magistrate's Court. Mr. Bonny wae elected chairman, and Mr. Jordan was appointed secretary. Instructions were given to advertise the sittings of tue Commissioners, requesting persons interested to attend. Intimation was sent to Mr. BarfF, M. 11. R., by letter. The Stella was ordered to go to Jackson's Bay and bring Mr. McFarlane, resident agent, and the papers necessary. The Commissioners adjourned. The bar is unworkable to-day, and the Stella has been communicated with by signals. The glass is rising, but there is a heavy sea. The Commissioners landed at Greymouth, fortunately, or they could not have got ashore here. A little girl named Leng, died in the hospital from the effects of burns received from her clothes catching fire while lighting the house fire. BLENHEIM, Monday. An unfortunate accident has happened at Poit Underwood, by which a young man named Jackson was shot through the arm with a rifle bullet. CHIUSTCHURCH, Saturday. At the Assessment Court yesterday the assessor's values were enormously reduced on appeals of objectors. At a special meeting of the shareholders of Kakaia and ABhburton Forks Railway yesterday it was resolved to confirm the of the capital of tho company by issue of 5000 new shares of £20 each. The directory were v-ated £50 for last year's services. Monday. . The services yesterday at St. John's were jo aid of the Kaitangata Relief Fund. In . .morning the Rev. F. Knowles, late of Kaitaogata, preached eloquently, in the evening the Rev. Mr. Watson, incntnbent, preached a powerful appeal, concluding by reading from the Dunedin SaturAdvertiser the " In Memortam" written J Mr. Bracken. The collections amounted to £46. The session of the Presbyterian Assembly closed on Saturday, lasting nearly a week, fp address was presented by the ministers 'be Wesley an Methodist, Baptist, and ' bodies, congratulating the Assembly vb the rirst meeting held in Christohurch,

The Rev. Mr. Sidey (Moderator), Rev. C. Fraser, and Rer. R. F. Macnicol were appointed directors to the Synod of Otago. The next Assembly meets in Auckland, in March, 18S0. A painter, working at the Christchurch hospital,' on Saturday fell from a ladder in one of the wards, and sustained a slight concussion of the brain. He was at once placed in a bed, which one of the nurses a few moments previously had playfully told him would have to bo prepared for him, if he were not very careful with the ladder ho was using. Mr. Conye rs was sufficiently recovered to pay two short visits to hi 3 office last weok. ASHBUJR.TON, Monday. Edward Jermingham Wakefield died today in the Old Men's Refuge. DUNEDIN", Monday. Mr. Creswick appeared in " "Virginins" to-night to a good house. George Hignold, after a most successful season, whioh closoJ on Saturday night, will be absent from Dunedin for a week in the country districts, after which his movements will be uncertain. Uo proposes to pay Christchurch and Wellington a farewell visit before leaving for Australia. If possible, Mr. Rignold will be in Melbourne at Baiter, and after visitiDg Adelaide he leaves for England in August. It is more than probable that he will open at Drury Lane in September or October in " Henry V." The city tramway i 3 progressing rapidly, and the plant is daily expscted. Tho Times urges that the homo authorities should pay half the passages of agricultural labourers emigrating to the colonies. At a meeting oE tho shareholders of the New Zealand Timber and Woodware Factories Company to day, tho report and balance-sheer, which have already been published, were adopted, and Mr. G. S. Brodick was re-elected director. INVERCARGILL, Saturday. The township of Dudley, on tho lioe of the Gore and Waimea railway, 30 acro3 in extent, was offered to auction this afternoon by Me33ra. Mcßoiio and Cuthbertson. The attendance was numerous and the bidding spirited. The whole proposed township was disposed of at an average of £10 10s per acre.