NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7270, 7 March 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from our own corrispondjsrt.] HOKIANGA, Friday. The Licensing Committee election for the Waima riding resulted in the return of Messrs. Beazly, Riesterer, Allingham, Glendon, McMillan. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NELSON, Friday. Several deputations waited on Mr. Lar« nach to-day. One represented the desirability of the Government aiding by a grant the construction of a road giving access to the Mount Owen reefs. The Minieter apoke favourably of the enterprise, and said that snch work deserved Government assistance, promising if funds were available to grant the Inanguahua Council the eum of £300 towards the works. Last night a barn fall of oats, belonging to G. Canton, situate at Hope, was destroyed by fire. Insurance, £200 in the Norwich Union. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A movement is on foot here to induce the Government to establish a house for the cure of inebriates. Sir Julius Vogel hae consented to receive a deputation on the subject. The committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and' Pastoral Association have decided by a narrow majority to recommend, the general meeting to purchase a more* commodious ground for the show, close to Addington railway station. i A Urge eale of shares of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company was held to-day. Some 3800 were sold, at prices ranging from 6d to Iβ 3d. The total amount of the city assessment this year is £245,548. A half-caste named J. C. Cuff, alias Robert Taylor, who iB charged with forging a promissory note for over- £100 at Invercargill, and who escaped from custody oa February 26, at Waian, was recaptursd by Detective Jones at Rotherham's hotel, between Hurunni and Waiau to-day. Hβ is feeble from exposure and privation, TIMARU, Friday. W. Upriehard, commission agent of Te» rnuka, committed suicide by taking arsenic. No cause is assigned for the deed. TheWaahdyke Sale Yards Co. formally opened their new yards to-day. Washdyke is situated about three miles from Timaru, and will be the great entrepot for South Canterbury. • DUNEDIN, Friday. A farm hand, named Fitzpatrick, met with very serious injuries on Thnrsday, in the Clutha, through the horses bolting down a hill with a reaper and binder he was driving. He was found two hours after the ocurrence. The knives had cut one of his legs fearfully. His head was very much bruised, and several of his ribe were broken. Mr. W. Downie Stewart, M.H.R. for Danedin West, addressed his constituents to-night. There was an audience of 60 or 70 persons. Mr. Stewart supported the Government generally. He received a vote of confidence. The Acclimatisation Society has declared all imported game, except hares, protected. The hare season, as also that for native game, is to extend from April Ist to July 31st. The project of sending a team of New Zealand bowlers to the tournament at Melbourne, at Easter, has bee n abandoned, ai sufficient members could not be got together. An inquest was held to>day on the boy Fraser, who was killed by falling from the platform of a tram car, off which he. was jumping. A verdict of accidental death was returned, and a rider added that boys should not be allowed to ride on the platform.

Two Dunedin tourists, Messrs. M. R. Boss and J. Marshall, accompanied by a guide, made a very successful ascent of Mount Ernalow, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, on Wednesday last. They reached a point on the' eastern glacier 8500 feet above the sea level, or 2000 feet higher than Mr. Marshall accomplished* last year, and a good deal higher than Rev. Mr. .Green accomplished in 18S2. The top of the mountain was enveloped in fog, so that it could not be'reached. The ascent and deaoent occupied fourteen hours. Mr. Waddel, an English tourist, accompanied the party as far as the snow line, but gave in then.