NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6935, 8 February 1884, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM oub own correspondent.] THAMES, Thursday. Reuben Parr is on his way to Auckland to place certain matters relative to his scholarship in their proper light. He missed the steamer through attending the cattle sale. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.J WELLINGTON, Thnwday. Miss Pomeroy closed a most sucoessftfi season to-night. NELSON. Thursday. It was reported from Tophouse last night that a horse with a saddle, to which a awag was attached and turned round under the horse's belly, was out by the rocks in the river, and the rider (a man named George) has not yet been found. There is little doubt that the unfortunate man, who had wen on a visit to Canterbury, and who has a wife and family living in Nelson, is drowned. CHEISTCHUKCH, Thursday. The Dunedin Club this afternoon played the Canterbury Club for Cunningham's Cup. Rink No. 1, Canterbury; Stahlsohmidt, Selby, Toomer, Stewart (skip.) Dunedin Foresters : Anderson, Thomson, Yates, (skip.) Canterbury, 27; Dunedin, 32. Rink No. 2, Canterbury: Neighbors, Toomer, TJrquhart, Hobbs (skip.) Dunedin : Robin, Young, Hunter, MoDearmid (skip.) Canterbury, 19; Dunedin, 42. Total, Canterbury, 46; Dunedin, 74. At the half-yearly meeting of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, the balance-sheet showed paid-up capital £19,615 ; liabilities, £1055; assets, £1169; and expenditure, £9306. The directors elected were Messrs. Spearman, Chissold, Williams, and Rhodes. It was resolved to lease the whole block of 5365 acres, and to bring the company under the Act of 1882. At the Reaper and Binder trial, nnder the auspices of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, the JSlcCormiok was first, and the Buckeye second. The Howard was very highly commended. At the Temperance Hotel annual meeting the balance-sheet showed a debit of £774 for the year, and total debit balance of £2342 since the commencement of the company. The Land Board have granted a party of four a license to prospect for gold in the Wilberforce district. . TIMARU, Thursday. At the election of a Licensing Committee for the borough of Timaru to-day, the Temperance party Buffered a defeat in every case. The following were eleoted : —E. G. Kerr, E. G. Stericker, John Jackson, J. C. McKerrow, W. C. Beswick. DUNEDIN, Thursday. The trustees of the Dunedin Savings Sank have agreed to pay out of the accrued profits the sum of £1560 to the trustees of the Benevolent Institution. This is the third payment of the kind, so that with th« Government subsidy the Benevolent Institution has secured a sum of £11,200. The Silver Peak dummyism cases wer« further inquired into at the Land Board to'day. Further proceedings were adjourned till next Tuesday; Two men were caught red-handed yesterday fishing for trout in Lake Wakatipu. Their boats and nets were seized. They are liable to a nenalty of £100.