NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7826, 21 December 1886, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[OWN COEBESPONDBNT.I ' Thames, Monday. A meeting of the hospital trustees was held to-night to consider a letter from the doctor, to the effect that he had visited four or five persons whose names were on the list handed to him as indigent and requiring medical assistance. He found none sick, nor had they been for some time. In onet instance a child had been dead for weekß, The letter tended to show that the person who had prepared the list had little or no knowledge of the circumstances. After a stormy discussion, the matter was referred to the Charitable Aid Board. By a novel entertainment on Saturday night, Mrs. Alexander Hume raised sufficient funds to purchase a steel spinal support for a young patient whose' friends are not in good circumstances. The Colonial Treasurer lias informed the County Chairmanlthat the Government will grant £12,000 under the Loans to Local Bodies Act. « The Fisk Jubilee Singers had an excellent house. Their performance is generally regarded as the greatest treat in the way of entertainments the Thames has had for years. Regret is universally expressed at their inability to stay another night, as originally intended. New Plymouth, Monday. The Minister of Public Works and Mrs. Richardson arrived by train this evening, and were received at the railway station by Mr. Samuel, M.H.R. A deputation will wait on the Minister to-morrow, welcoming him to the place, but it is not expected that anything will be asked for, although the approval of the present time-table will be mentioned. The cause of the ketoh Kestrel's delay in making twenty-three days' passage between Lyttelton and here was merely head winds, which prevented her making the port. Inglewood is the first place that has received a loan under " The Local Bodies Loan Act." The amount is £1600. Tenders for the construction of the railway wharf and cattle wharf, inside the breakwater, are called for this evening. [press association.l New Plymouth, Monday. Keighley, a settler who was leading a bull, was knocked down by the animal, which knelt on him. The bull was about to gore him when a neighbour, coming to his assistance, shot the animal. Keighley is not seriously hurt. Wellington, Monday. Leases of eight sections of the newlyreclaimed land adjoining Queen's Wharf, being a portion of the Wellington Harbour Board Endowments, were sold by auction to-day. The leases are for 21 years, and the lot brought an annual rental of £884. The prices ranged from 35s to 67s 6d per foot. The Minister of Mines will publish in January a " Handbook of New Zealand Mining," in which will be given a description, so far as is possible, of every mining industry in the colony, illustrated with photographs. The Stella will visit Big Bay shortly, and enquiries will be made how the prospectors there are succeeding. Any of the men wishing to leave the district will be brought away. Thirteen cases against twelve prisoners are set down for the next Criminal Sessions, including two charges of wounding and one of manslaughter. The shipping in harbour yesterday and to-day lowered their fUgs to half-mast, as a mark of respect to the late Mr. J. L. Coster, formerly managing director of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Mastekton, Saturday. John Moore, of Pahiatua, settler, was found dead in his bed at Mauriceville this morning. He was taking a mob of sheep to Pahiatua. It is supposed that the causa of death was heart disease. Chkistchuboh, Monday. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society complaints were made that hares in the Waipara district had destroyed frnit trees, and greatly damaged the turnip crops. The Society decided to open the district for the destruction of hares all the year round. The funeral of the late Mr. J. L. Coster took place at Opawa yesterday afternoon, and was attended by 1500 persons, representing principal business circles, banks, etc. The coffin was borne by six quarter-masters of the Aorangt. Six of the crew of the barque Bride were charged at the Lyttelton Police Court to-day with refusing duty. It appeared they had been ordered to begin work at half-past five on Saturday, after working twelve hours the previous day. Messrs. Allwright and Fife, J.P.'s, who were on the bench, considered the men justified in not going to work under the circumstances, and dismissed the case. Dunedin, Monday. In the cricket match Christ's College (Canterbury) v. Dunedin High School, the collegians won by au innings and 38. The visitors scored 133, and the school made 82 in the Ist innings, but only 13 in the second, of which 5 were extras. Five wickets fell for nothing, the 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th for 12, and the last for 13. Perry and Jameson were the bowlers for the collegians. At the Police Court to-day a young man named A. D. Harvey, who is well-oonnected at Invercargill, appeared to answer a charge of larceny of £8 and a revolver, and was remanded for a week to allow the Probation Officer to make inquiries. It appeared his family had disowned him through his bad conduct. There were two extraordinary finishes in the Cup matches on Saturday. In the Albion v. Southern the latter, requiring 47 to win, lost one wioket for 30, but the other eight batsmen were unable to add to the score, the innings closing for 33. McLennon took five wickets in one over for one run. Phoenix v. Wanderer ; The former, wanting 90 to win, the first to wickets put on 55, but the other eight batsmen only made 10 additional. Invercargill, Monday. Joseph Benassie, an Italian, was ahot dead while on a trip down the estHary yesterday. Several boys, who were near, heard a shot and a cry, and found deceased near his boat, with a gunshot wound in his breast, one barrel of the gun being discharged. It is believed that the trigger caught through Benassie pulling the weapon over the gunwale. Deceased leaves several children, whose mother left her husband some time ago. Deceased had seen service under Garibaldi.