NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7382, 17 July 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR OWN corresp >ndest.] THAMES, Tburnday. A MRKTISG of persons interested in forwarding exhibit* to the Exhibition of Colonial and Indian Produce was held to-day. The Warden intimated it was desired to send specimens of gold and various minerals, and of the different strata of the country, and all information regarding the field which might have the effect of attracting English capital. The meeting was adjourned till tomorrow. TAURANGA, Thursday. Mr. Owen had a vary successful trial in the public streotof the Star Harden grenades yesterday, and has, in consequence, received a large number of orders. [PRRSS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Gazette notifies the appointments of the following as Deputy Registrars of Marriages, Birthe, and Deaths :—J. Passe!, Dargaville; F. Laiiße, Papatuna; F. Booth, Whanguroa; J. Bell, Whangarei; also, H. Hodfield, of Tuhikaratnea, as aseepsor for the Auckland Property Aasessmeut District. At the Police Court Fred. Stock, for robbing a man at Foxton, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. A prisoner escaped from Mount Cook Gaol this morning, but was recaptured shortly afterwards. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The officers of the Christchuroh volunteer corps have resolved to establish a garrison reading-room and library. McKichnie'a building was insured for £200 in the United, not in the Norwich Union. TIMARU, Thursday. A shepherd, named Cowlter, was found dead at the foot of a precipice on the Hakataramea station. He is supposed to have slipped on the snow above. INVERCARGILL, Thursday. A young man named James Fiiher was severely injured in Seaward Bush to-day. He was employed as bullock driver at Tapper's Mill, and while hauling a log it rolled off the shoe against a sapling, which in turn pinned Fisher against a tree he was passing at the time. He was brought to the hospital, where it was found the injuries to the lower part of the body were of a serious nature. The Borough Council have resolved to recommend the Government to amend the new Corporation Bill so as to make the Mayor elective by the Council, instead of the ratepayers, the present mode costing an outlay of about £209 to Invercargill annually. They further recommend, with the view to economy, that the Government Auditor should audit the Corporation accounts, as is now done for the Harbour Board and counties It is stated that the present mode of electing mayors is peculiar to New Zealand, and frequently leads to men being elected who know nothing of the previous business of the corporations or the conduct of public business.