NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5520, 26 July 1879, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[n;ou oro. own correspondents.] THAMES, Friday. The Borough Council have dacidcd to send his Worship the Mayor to Wellington to look after the interests of the Borongh and other matters of importance to the district. TE AWAMUTU, Friday. A house here belonging to Mr. Kutherford, occupied by Mr. J. L. Maudeno, was burned down last night at 11. p.m. All the furniture was destroyed. It is supposed that the fire began in the kitchen. The building was insured in the New Zealand office for £200. The fire broke oat after the family had gone to bed. The furniture was partly saved.

A man named John Shea, a labourer, working on Fallon's railway contract, was found hanging in his whare this morning qnite dead. Mr. Grssham, coroner, holds an inquest to-day. No further particulars are to hand of his death. The wires have long been up to Ohaupo, bat the telegraph" offioe is not opened. HAMILTON, Friday. Three tenders have been received for the completion of the Presbyterian Church additions. They were as follows : — Cook and Co.. £248 10a; Elliott, £243; Worthing, ton, £273. No tender has been accepted as yet. The meeting to-night re the Hamilton public hall is likely to be lively. Some eighty Hamilton East men came over to prevent the weßt side getting a hall, as it is proposed shortly to erect an Oddfellows's Hall at East Hamilton. ALEXANDRA, Friday. A man named Jules Mont, a native of the Isle of France, and cook at Finch's hotel, wa3 committed by the Resident Magistrate for a month for stealing several bottles of grog, the property of his employer. He w&a to have been married to day to a European girl, who has left here, being nnable to bear the disgrace of her lover's conduct. [PKKSS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCfIUECH, Friday. Captain Davis, of the barque John Knox, was charged to-day with violently assaulting Charles Lawson, the boatswain of the vessel. - The latter was taking his breakfast in the galley, when the captain came forward, and ordered him out. The boatswain threw a cup of coffee in the captain's face, when the latter seized him, and held him against the ship's rail till he was black in the face. Captain Davis was lined 40s and costs.

Mr. Towlea's Opera Class performs "H.M.S. Pinafore" to-night, at the Sunnyside Asylum. Dave McFarlane, guard of the Sheffield train, was jammed by a rope with great force against a truck while shunting yesterday morning. He was brought into the hospital, and found to be injured across the abdomen and right hip. The full extentof the injuries will not be known for a day or

The diffioulfcy in connection with fch® Theatre Rojal is settled. .The sale of the building will notnowtako^^ There was »«.■:Uttfe '»*«*£ Municipal Council e;(action to-day. There will ODly ba . doute't -fgJ^JWdiy. Tho'annul football-match between North and -Soflth Canterbury takes . place tomorroyr. Friday. ' A memorial has been circulated by tha Chamber ,or Commerce in favour of" tho removal at the Commissioner of Railways for the Middle Island 'to Du'nedin. ; , ' The Otago exhibit! for the 3 Exhibi- . . tion number 120, and in valae.exceedthOßO from the whole colony. „ . - - ' '..-■•U-.r 1 Z .. INYEEOARGILL;.Friday., Hie {municipal election on the Ist Ang^iE" 1 . promise to ba. keenly coo tested. . •;;■