NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9142, 25 August 1888, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

!i ', [OWN 1 CORRESPONDENT.] ' u ' * * Thames, Friday. Mr. John To wnsend has resigned his scab in the THames County 'Council for the Totara Riding, his reason' being that he does nob : consider the riding lias received fair treatment from' the Council. ' A fresh election will be held on the 14th prox. [press association.] ! , . v - , Wellington, Friday. , A youth, Thomas Morris, who, accidentally shot himself last month, succumbed today. . 'h . ; t Captain - Kefift, awell-knoWn and respected: settler, died to-day. . .. ; - r . '• . - Wlsstpoßt,. Friday. ; Timothy Gallagher, a very old resident, of the Buller district, : M.H.R. in 1869, died this afternoon of congestion' of the lungs. . *: Grkymobth, Friday. The Union: Steamship Co.' have .bought out Mr. Joseph Kilgoiur, the owner of the Oreti and Tyneside coal mine. The price is not stated. ' . . • ' i . J,., _ ion u'U-'f CIIfiisTCHURCH, Friday.. The presentation of diplomas to students of Canterbury-College took place this afternoon. Ajlr.' 0. ,C. Bowen presided, and in his speech .. ppade reference to the great ability of the late;., T., H. Potts. ; The Primate , delivered , a, brief , ; address, contrasting the t present extension qf > education with the state of things prevailing when , he" was at the University, when education wa. confined to the rich. ; ,;j. i. • . . ■ The uaan drowned at Lyttelton on the , departure of s the Coptic on March 31, was i Alexander Reid, one oftjie crew. ; i si no