NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6827, 3 October 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. The Borough Council have decided that a poll shall be taken of the ratepayers on tho question whether the 50-acre reserve now used as a racecourse should be made over to the borough for re-erve purposes, or be kept as a rac.course in perpetuity. NAPIER, Tuesday. The stables belonging to the Exchange Hotel, Havelock, were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The building was insured in the Norwich Union for £100. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A young man named James Hammond, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of forging the name of his employer, was to-day committed for trial. From to-day "delayed telegrams" will simply be half price, there being no additional charge for postage. HOKITIKA, Tuesday. Tho Mahinapua toak away from here 30120z5. gold shipped by the Bank or New Zealand. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the ease o£ James Holliwood, for perjury at Reeiton, a verdict of cot guilty was found. The civil cases come ou to-morrow. CHRISTCHUKCH, Tuesday. The congregation. of North Belt Presbyterian Church have resolved to give a unauimous call to the Kev. R. Irwin, Auckland. . The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court to-day finished with the conviction of Maria Simatti for arson, who was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. The first session of the thirteenth Synod of the Diocese of Canterbury opened to-day. The Diocesan Choral Association holds its first festival on November 15. Twenty-two church choirs, numbering 300 voices, have joined, and will take part in the festival, which will be h=ld in the Cathedral.

A meeting of parents and guardians of children attending tho -Boys' High School to-day passed a resolution condemning the conduct of the Board of Governors as contrary to the best interests of the school.; It was proposed, " That; a memorial to the Minister of Education be drawn up and signed by all interested iu the welfare of the school, praying him to take such steps as may be necessary to alter the constitution of the governing body, so that it may be elective and represent the public, instead: of self-elected as at prts snt; and it ma finally

Smt i l® 1 ' opinion of the meeting Mr. Miller haa been treated by the Board of fc.overnors'with great injustice; that we fully sympathise with him in his present position, and that tho parents and guardians of boys attending the High School be invited to aicn an address and present a testimonial to him prior to his retirement."

_ DU-NEDIU, Tuesday. i Ihe steamer \N akatipu took 63 horees to . Sydney to-day. Port Chalmers has decided to enct salt water baths, and to apply for power to raise a loan to provide gasworks. The Roys were arraigned this morning, and pleaded not jguilty, but all the Crown witnesses not being in attendance the trial was adjourned till Thursday. The shareholders of the Lankey Creek Cement Mining Company, iteeftoD, met there to-day to receive a report of Mr. iftryer, the expert sent over to report upon the concern. In answer to the question what is your private opinion of the claim," he said he thought it was no good. Mr. H. Bastings, a shareholder, said that anything more monstrous than this Lankey Creek proceedings had never taken place on the face of the earth in connection with mining speculation. He indulged in some very strong remarks about West Coast people generally, and about the way in which Dunediniteshad been bitten, | At the State school at Milton, a country town, the head-master agreed to conduct a Bible class before uchool hints in the mornine, and out of 283 sufficiently advanced to read tha Bible 251 attended. At the Police Court to-day, Wm. Wishart, of Clarendon Hotel, was charged with allowing dice playing at half-past two o'clock on Sunday morning. Six young men had been found gambling in the presence of the landlady by the police. The Resident Magistrate said he was satisfied there wss a case for , conviction, but agreed to an appeal on the point that the landlord had not known of the occurrence. The landlord was in bed. . Shortly after the arrival of the steamer xe Anau at Port 'Chalmers this morning, one the steerage passengers named Wood died of from the effects of delirium tremens. He leaves a widow and four children, who were also passengers by the Te Anau. At the Supreme Court to-day, John Day, aged 33j for rape on a child of tender years at Blenheim, wb,s senteuced to live years' penal servitude. _