NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6065, 26 April 1881, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

■ [UXITED TRESS ASSOCIATION". J TAURANGA, Monday. The County Council resolved at a meeting to-day to proceed against absentees for rates, and, if necessary, sell the land, so as to recover the amounts due. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. A robbery has been committed at the Cape Egmout Camp. The affair is enveloped in mystery. The re-hearing of the case in the District. Court, Mrs. Middleton v. the Bank of New Zealand, resulted in a second verdict for the plaintiff! The verdict was entered up as the judgment of the Court for £60 3s 3d. WELLINGTON, Monday. The Government intend to prosecute every person connected with the Mount View Asylum against whom a prima facie case is disclosed in the evidence given before the late commission. The Crown solicitors, are carefully considering the evidence. Charles Lewis Stewart, of Te Aro Club, has been summoned for selliu" liquor withont a license. About a fortnight ago he wasfined £200 on a charge of a similar nature. Numerous summonses are being served against the property tax defaulters in countrydistricts. While the bai-que Himalaya was off the Heads this morning a seaman fell from the royal yard across the trees, and broke his thigh. ■ William Edden has been fined £50 for sly-grog selling. He was also charged with assaulting the constable who detected him, and was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. REEFTON, Monday. ■'■'•' Mr. G. R. Bowman reports for the week ending April 23 : —The United Alpine Company put through, during the week, 18S tone of quartz, for 172 ounces* of amalgam, 1 from the top plates. In the low level, the reef is 16. feet in thickness, withont any sign; of running out. In the southern— ■" ■workings, the reef is 40 feet wide, and will average, all -through, 25 feet. The ' Kery Cross Extended crushed 61 tons for 76ozs. 14dwts. ; Golden ileece Extended, 138 tons for 2240z5.; the Welcome, 100 tonsofquartzfor4ssozs. of amalgam. There is about two feet of stone in the face of the drive. The Golden Treasure Company - ■ has. a good reef at 50 feet, which shows gold freely. The Wealth of Nations have three feet of : stone, with good gold. The Nil ■ ' Dcsperandum stone, of which a good supply is on hand, is estimated'to yield 1-tdwt. to -. _■- • the ton. ''.■■ The latest quotations are' '-'•.■ Buyers : United Alpine?, £1 os ; Ke'ep-it-Dark, 14s 1 9d : Energetic, £1 13s;'Golden , ''••" Fleece Extended, 7s Gd; Oriental, 3s 6'd;'" Wealth of Nations", 13s"Cd'fTiery" Cross . Extended,. 33 ;' Homeward Bound; 2s;3d*;\v; Golden Treasure, 2s 6d ; Welcome,'4s 5d :' Result, Is. Sellers'prices are slightly higher. Messrs. Seed and Batkm arrived liere' , to-" night. .-:.,.'' ■■•■■ :-'■ '■ ■;•■■■■■■>■ ';-■■'■ CHRIBTCHURCH, Monday. , >.V An inquest on the body of the man Rice... ■ Foiilkes was held to-day. The verdict:was suicide while in-.a state: of temporary .-insanity. The-foreman of the jury thought . , the. police should '.have obtained evidence as ; : ; : to Foulkes' financial position, as some one : . -. might-possibly have robbed, him. '. He waa .- . ■ known, however, to be in financial difficulties, and from the position in which the body :.'i was found, with a gun tied to the left foot,, '.'.'. there can be no doubt of suicide. . : . .'. ■•• . ; Tlie Drainage Board by five to three-to- .'••■* day refused to cancel their engineer's. (Mr. Napier Bell's) engagement. Mr. Bell .engineer to the Harbour. Board, and there is some dissatisfaction at his holding botli posi--.-•'„•.'■-.' tion, though no objection was made at., the itime and by arrangement with the Drainage ' _■ > Board his; salary was reduced at the time. ''v He holds an agreement with the Drainage : . Board for five years. .. , ' ' . ' • ■.-.> :■: The experiments made by the Agricultural ■'■-.. •'> and Pastoral Association, with the new.sub-' .'..;.- .stance for preserving butter . known' as . . , ■". Bntyrsater ". didlnot turn out a. success, ■_~ \ ... but it appears :that the cellar in which the ' < Ijutter operated on was stored was inunj : dated a few weeks ago with putrid water.:.. ■ ; -.:■ ■ -, Mr. S. W. Andrew addresses his. consti-. ■ ; tuerits on Friday evening iiext. ' ■:.'. '-.-. Professor Reull and the: German Commis- . . sionei- at the Sydney Exhibition; sented the Canterbury Museum with the .. exhibits shown by the Minister of Educatioa' for Wurtenburg. These consist of 100 models in plaster of Paris. 20in wood, and 9 works, in. folio, containing several hundred diagrams. ..'•"■_... ;:• . -. / ....... ': The- Hawea on : Saturday, took thirty second-class passengers booked for America. ;.:-■;. and JLonddu; including a number of Mor- : - mon converts. ■'.': - . '. : ,-' : ' "'- .The Pinafore troupe were treated to atrip-- ■ ; over all the.tramway lines on Saturday. The: troupe .continue to draw immense houses at tlie Theatre Royal: ■:.'.- ' ' ': A pack of harriers, numbering 11, arrived by the Mataura. . ' . • . . : .: The Native Minister,- attended by Mr. Parris and Hone Piliama, aixived at Lyttel .toa on Saturday on business com; Ectr-.tl with the liberation of Maori prisoners. ■ The manufacture of potato starch, farinaceous food, arrowroot, and similar products, has been commenced here on a large scale. ' : Tlie case brought against Hobbs : and Goodwin, proprietors of the totalisator,'by Snider and Drake, bookmakers, was this mornin" adjourned on the application of Mr,, . Joyce for one week. This will enable de-; fendants to attend the Timaru races with their machine, much to the annoyance of.the -. ■ ; bookmakers. ; -.-.■; ■ TIMARU,. Monday.- . At tlie inquest to-day, on H. L. Nathan, ; found dead in his bed yesterday morning, a verdictithat the deceased committed suicide by inhaling chloroform while suffering from ■:.. temporary insanity was returned. He left •.-, a letter.which fully justified the verdict. '. : ■ Monday. • At a meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, a deputation was appointed to wait upon the directors of ■'■''■■"_"■ the Union Steamship Company in order to ascertain how far they deemed it practicable ■"■ to establish a monthly line of steamers trading between Great Britain and New Zealand. Mr. McKeiras proposed that the - Government should discontinue the subsidy ; granted to the San Francisco service, and ■ instead grant it to a direct line of steamers. The Deputy Property Tax Commissioner has been instructed to sue all defaulters. ' ■ Mrs. Hampson, female evangelist, is> drawing large houses. The gradient of the portion of the line ' where the tramway accident occurred, is 1 in 74. Garrett, who was seriously injured about the head, is still unconscious. The traffic was carried on as usual to-day, and the line was well patronised. , '..'.....; Cheshire, a hospital-wardsman in Queenstown Hospital, committed suicide by taking • prussic acid. Jealousy was the cause. On 15th Angus Cameron, carpenter ■ of .the ship Otago, was washed overboard. Every effort was made to recover him, but without success. He was 29 years of age. At the City Court, Samuel Stewart was committed for trial for criminally as-. saiilting a girl, aged five. : " r ■■:.-. ■-■■ -.; -■■■-