NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6821, 27 September 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. 1 The following list of t-ndtrs were received for No. 39 station building contract, Wha-ngarei-Kamo railway :—Accented : H. C. Holman, Kamo, £173. Declined :M. . "W. .arniotrong, £173 ; Wrigley and Handcock, £267. At the Magistrate's Court, Edward Mullen was charged ■with setting fire to a "house at Tawa 'Flat with intent to defraud the Hanseatic Insurance Company. He was reMtnandeduntil the sth October, and- admitted 1 to bail, himself in £100 and two sureties in £200 each. . CHRISTCHUftCH, Wednesday.

Jackaon, a prisoner iu Lyttelfcon Gaol, was brought up this morning at the R.M. Court charged,with insubordination, and was sentenced to seven days' bread and water. Messrs. Biid and Geegan, formerly of the Telegraph Department, have applied for letters patent ior " secondary battery cell for storing or conserving electricity." They claim to have discovered means by which they obtain far greater capacity in a given space than has been obtained in other storage batteries iu use, as the great objection to storage batteries is, their weight. . George Robinson left this morning for Dunedin, to hold himself in rraiiness for the wrestling match with Strong on Saturday. The match is for the championship belt and £50 a.side.

Last nighfc the Mammoth Pantascopu was opened ia the Theatre. Royal with Marls Twain's Innocents "Abroad. The Press ihis morning hiehly praise all the scenic effects and the lecturu. There was a bplendid house:

Both papers say the panorama aud all its surroundings were the finest by ?. Ion? way of anything ever seen-in the colony. The company gave gifts also.

KUMAR A, Wednesday. Messrs. Redmond and Walsh arrived from Christcburch at t\\o o'clock this afternoon, en route for Greymouth. They,arc the guescs to-night of thu Rev. Father Walsh. They procetd to Greymouth to-morrow.

DUNEDIN, Wednssday.llr. Downs, who has been in sharge of the Lawrence branch of the Bank of New South Wales for fifteen years, goes to-New Plymouth to take temporary charge. ' Cricket in Otago loses a prominent piayer in Mr. Downs.

A six-roomed house in Albany-street, occupied by Jarncij Grant, was buraed down at midnight last night. The furniture was insured m thu Norwich Union for £100.

A nieeting was held to night to form an amateur Athletic Club, ou the model of the South - Canterbury one. The project was taken up warmly, and the name* nere yiven in of a membership of i.bout one hundred. Mr. J ,P. Maitlaud, Commissioner of Crown Lands, was elected l J resiiJeut.

At this morning's sitting of the Land Board letters were received from the suspec.ed "dumrnys" in Tasmania—Peroell and the brothers Young—protecting .igainrt the Jecision not to issue ieenaes to them,-and stating that they are ready to occupy the land for their own use and benefit. Tho lettcrs.were merely received. The Supreme Court has decided that the Board's refusal to issue the licensee was absolute, and unless the decision is set aside no further step can be taken. The decision is to be appealed against. _____