NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5680, 31 January 1880, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from: our own correspondents.} THAMES, Friday. The county authorities have put Mr. C. Gribble in charge of the unsold mines held by them as security for their mortgage. He will also take charge of the Caledonian miue until the purchase by Mr. Howe has been completed. KAWAKAWA, Friday. The Kawakawa races yesterday passed off well, and the racing was good. The winners were : — Maideu Plate, loaovs., Prince; Kawakawa Handicap, 40aovs., Worm; Pony Bace, Ssovs., Kotiro; Handicap Hurdle Race, 20sovs., Performer j Maori Race, Ssovs., protest was lodged; Ladies' Purse, 25sovs., Worm ; Hack Kace, lOsove., Prince; Consolation, lOsovs., Taipo. [united press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. Nominations for the Steeplechase, Taranaki Jockey Club, Hack Hurdles, for the Autumn Handicap, for the Taranaki Jockey Club Anniversary Eaces close at 8 o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) evening. WELLINGTON, Friday. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the action of J. S. Macfarlane and others v. Kees, claiming £1000 damages for slander of title in connection with the estate of the late Captain Head, of Poverty Bay, the jury entered a verdict for the plaintiffs for £75 with costs. Young Scott, the pedestrian, arrived here to-day. He will essay to walk 112 miles in 24 hours, commencing on the sth instant. The Premier left for the South this afternoon. Ministers met in Cabinet to-day, to consider the appointment of a Royal Commissioner on Native Affairs, vice Mohi Tawhai, resigned. A youth who was employed in the Taratahi Post-office, Wairarapa, has illegally taken possession of certain letters, which he had access to, and absconded. The police are makiag inquiries as to his whereabouts. Colonel Scratchley returned from the South to-day, after inspecting various Southern ports. A young man named Toner had his left thigh broken last night by a fall of earth at Kaiwarra railway works. The following are the latest quotations for the Wellington Cup :—3 to 1 against Foul Play (offered), 100 to 30 against Foul Play (taken), 4 to 1 against Lara (offered), 100 to 15 against Templeton (taken and offered), 100 to 15 against Hippocampus (taken and offered), 100 to 12 against Laerte3 (offered), 100 to S against Laertes (taken), 100 to 8 against any other. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A boat was discovered on the New Brighton Beach yesterday evening. It is about 18 feet long. One board is painted greeD, and the upper portion brown, and a small hole knocked in the bottom. Inspector Hickson, it is understood, will shortly take charge of the Clyde district, in Otago. . A first instalment of money is to be remitted by cablegram to Ireland, probably £700, at once. 44 Aida" ia very successful, and tne upera Company are still drawing successful houses. The inaugural meeting of the Sundayschool Association was held to-night- There were 560 visitors present. The Church of England was represented, but the association will probably include none, or very few, of the Episcopalian body. The meeting wm extremely successful, and the association bids fair to become a very prominent and powerful body. . The last quarter of 1579 for this education district gives the following figures Total number of schools, J2Q; total male! teachers, 171; females, 187. At the end ;of the quarter there were 15,530 children—7972 boys, and the rest girls; the average attendance, 11,064; working average, 11,351. " John A. Partridge' has gained a scholar-, ship in -connection with the School of Agriculture at Canterbury College, • " The Lincolnshire delegates visited Addlington sale yards yesterday, while the sale was going on, and evinced considerable in-

terfat in the stock yarded. Thev after i wards visited the Land Office, and wet over some farms ia the Spreydon district and thence to Sir Cracroft Wilson's Gaah' mere estate. The racehorses Numa, To Whetn, Foul Play, and Vampire went to Wellington, per Rotomahana, yesterday. Some valaabl» Lincoln rams and ewes were also snipped by her for Napier. Messrs. Grant and Foster, the Lincoln, shire delegates, visited the farms at Reestoa Southbridge, and Lincoln districts yesterday. It is understood that Captain Slater, of the Yeomanry Cavalry, has withdrawn hi 3 resignation, recsntly forwarded to' the Government. The swagmen in the northern districts are complaining that the reaping and binding machines are doing their work, and !art-a numbers are going about unable to obtain employment. OAMARU, Friday. John Connell, charged with robbing two ±'5-notes frcui Alexander Smith, was committed for trial at the I) u nod in Supreme Court. DUNEDIST, Friday, The Colonial "ank has kindly undertaken to send home by cable (free of expense) the remittances for the relief of the Irish. £700 was sent to-day by the Duncdin committee. A telegram was received in town to-day intimating that the Carrick water-race is completed and the water in. There has been only one declaration of insolvency this week.

Dalvey station, tiie homestead property cE Mr. \Y. Sheath, near Tapanui, was burnod to the ground yesterday. All the men were ia the wooUhed at the time. The nra originated in the kitchen. The insurances are £200 on the building, and £150 on the furniture, in the "Victoria offioe. When word was brought to tho Tapanui, the insurance agents went to the scene of accident, but were too late to be of service. Mr. Sheath's loss is very considerable, as he allowed a £300 policy in the Standard ofEca to lapse. The loss is roughly estimated at £400. Three men, named John Mowatt, David McNtall, and William Chalmers, were arrested for sticking up a man at Green Island. Only one small insolvent filed during ths past week. IXVERCARGILL, Friday. William Futch, of the s.s. Oreti, waa stabbed in the left arm by a man named llobert Arnold, to whom he refnsed a ticket, on the ground that he was intoxicated. The wound, although severe, is not dangerous. His assailant was brought up at the Police Court to-day, and committed for trial. BLUFF, Friday. Constable Coffee, late of Port Chalmers, dropped dead in the street this afternoon.