LATEST TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 362, 18 January 1879, Page 15

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PEE PESSBS AGENCY.) FoxrON, Thursday. The County Council met yesterday. * All were present with the exception of Mr. Loudon. Mr. J&ockstrnw has given, notice to rescind Mr. Haleombe’s resolution relative to Mr. Tjoadon, bnt asked leave to withdraw the notice. Permission was granted, with only one dissentient. All the others expressed an opinion that the resolution should stand on the books. AV 0 K r.AND, Th nrsd ay. The Taiaroa, with the Southern mails, left Manakau at noon. A person named James T.ifctlechild was drowned at Riverhead yesterday-. The City of Sydney will be detained here at lea*fc ten days, as a neiv crank pier is to be cast at Sydney, and wiil bo brought down by the Hero on the 2501 u It is considered it would be dangerous for the City of Sydney to proceed in her present condition. John Penman, proprietor of the' Te Ari sawmill, was killled while working by a blow from api .ink. He died in half an hour after the accident. Grahamstown, Thursday. The natives have promised Mr. Sheehan that they will allow the rtilway to be taken through their laud without compensation, and have appointed a strong committee to act with the Government in the matter. New Plymouth, Thursday. Mr. Parris, at the request <f the Native Minister, leaves to-day for Wanganui, for the purpose of investigating the allegations of Psrann Tumahaki aud Kariatete Kooua, of Wanganui, in their petition, presented lo the House in 1377, in reference to two sections at Okutuku. Matters are quiet at Parihaka. Major Brown goes there to-day. Mr. W. Carrington has been put on pay, to assist in making friendly calls on the prophet Te Whiti, at Parihaka. MaSTEUTON, Thursday. The valuation for Masterton Borough this year is £23,403 ; last year, £19,958. Harvesting operations are in full swing again after three days suspension from bad weather, Napieii, Thursday. Mr, Hoskins and Miss Colville left for the South to-day per Rangatira, accompanied by Mr. Geddas, the manager. Since Hoskins joined the company they have had good houses ; prior to that the theatre was not patronised. The oonsequence is that Geddas, manager of the company, ha 3 to depart, leaving behind half his company, who are in a sad plight for want of funds to follow the manager, several of them having families depending on them living in the South. Mr. Maricay was a passenger by the Hawea to Wellington to-day. It is reported that he has been offered by the Native Minister the appointment of Chief I-and Commissioner ; but it is thought Grey will not resuscitate the office for Mackay’s benefit. The Telejrapk to-night says: “ There is a report, which has been carefully kept out of the papers, that the survey of the Waimate Plains has been stopped by the natives, a mob of women having been employed in seizing the surveyor’s instruments. Major Brown, we hear, was then deputed to remonstrate with the Maoris, aud he, proceeding to the ground, was met by the same party of amazons, who dragged him off his horse and stripped him. It would new appear that the murder of the cook of the surveyors had more of political significance than was at first supposed, which accounts for the safe refuge Hiroki ha 3 found amongst his countrymen.” Balclutha, Thursday. At a meeting of the Borough Council the Mayor reported that he had arranged with the Government for the use of an engine, trucks, and plant to fill the holes in the street caused by the floods. The work is to commence next week. Temporary protection works at the river bank, behind the township, are completed aud are proving thoroughly effective. A conference of deputations from the Clutha and Brace County and Borough Councils will bo held this afternoon, to consider the best means of providing for the re-erection of the bridge over the Clutha River. A conference was held here to-day about reerecting the Balclutha bridge. Present Clerk, Wayne, aud Petrie, representing Bruce County Council ; Jowitt and Brydon, from Clutha County ; and the Mayor, Mason, and Dunne, Balclutha Council. The Mayor was in the chair. Jowitt read a report from Higgiuson, G.E., upon the bridge, explaining the style of structure he would recommend; estimated cost, £9910. The delegates from Clutha explained that the Council were willing to bear a share of the expense of the bridge. Those from Bruce said they had obtained a legal opinion to the effect that they could not legally expend the county funds beyond the county boundary. A long discussion ensued, and it appeared the boundaries of the counties and borough were so mixed that it could not be decided whether the bridge was on the boundary between the two counties #r within the borough of Balclutha. It was ultimately resolved to ask the Colonial Secretary to obtain the opinion of the Attorney General as to which body or bodies could legally expend their funds in the erection of the bridge. In course of discussion the new Mayor expressed a strong opinion that all the main roads through the borovgh should be in the hands of the c<m»fc»es,

An information was lodged with the police here of a seriou- charge against a youth named Stewart, lately a clerk iu the National Batik. Stewart has left the district. The police are making enquiries. Oamabd, Thursday. A little cliiM named Bissetfc drank half a bottle of brandy this morning early, and died in consequence, it being too late to apply remedies when discovered. The Harbor Board difficulties slid continue. The bank has refused to pay ary more cheques. The Board has askecl the Government to hand over the foreshore, on which it can borrow, but no reply has been received. The Board has received applications for nine allotments on the foreshore in the vicinity of the proposed railway terminus. Dunedin - , Thursday. A telegram has been i-eceived by the police intimating that a man named Robert Macgregor was kille 1 last evening at Manngataua. near Outram, by the upsetting of his dray iu a cutting. At a meeting of the* Presbyterian Synod today the chairman of the professorial board of the Otago University forwarded a series of resolutions agreed to by the Board, and which were previously published. The resolutions pointed out that moral philosophy and political economy were already taught in the University, and it would be undesirable that au ecclesiastical body should eudow- a chair of moral philosophy, as it would give rise to the supposition that it was intended to subserve sectarian aud ecclesiastical purposes. The Board pointed out that the chairs required were physical science and English language and literature. The resolution of the University Council, which was enclosed, expressed its gratification at the prospect of a new chair, and also its opinion that a chair of English language and literature, and history of the same, together with constitutional history, in the present circumstances of the University would be of the greatest service to the higher education. Three propositions were then submitted by members of the Synod, and a long discussion ensued, in the course of which one member of the Synod said the professorial board’s resolutions were marked by the grossest materialism. The debate was adjourned until the evening sitting. Messrs. M. Fraser and K. Ramsay have been nominated as members of the Education Board. A watchmaker, carrying on business in Rattray-street, was properly victimised last evening by a man who had stolen a nugget of brass, and who succeeded in disposing of it to Mr. Bailey, the gentlemau referred to, for £3. The prosecutor said that although the nugget turned out to bo pure brass when tested it was such a beautiful deception that very few judges would have thought of testing it, an opinion shared in by all who saw the specimen. Christchurch, Thursday. The case of Cleves v. King and another was brought to a close yesterday, when the jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for £l5O, with leave to move the Court above for £I4OO. The case of the Napier Harbor Board is fixed for to-day. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Coursing Club was held yesterday, when the balance-sheet showed that the receipts during the season had been £464, of which, after paying all expenses, there is a small balance in hand. It was resolved to recommend the committee to comply with the request of the North Otago Coursing Club to send delegates to a general meeting to consider the question of a VV’aterloo Cup for New Zealand. The opening of the through line from Christchurch to Invercargill will take place this day week. Graham’s benefit last night was largely attended. Graham played a short comedy of his own, with Miss Tilly Andrews, entitled “Love’s Young Dream.” He afterwards gave an imitation of favorite New Zealand actors. The weather is beautifuL Thei*e was a large attendance at the reapers and binders’ contest. The rainfall on Monday was 2 T 5 inches in Christchurch. Last season the total amount of grain despatched from the different districts of Canterbury amounted to 145,614. Madame Charbonnet announces her intention of giving two farewell concerts at the close of the month. The case of Henderson v. the Napier Harbor Board commenced to-day, and will, it is said, last for a week. Messrs. Macassey, of Dunedin, and Harper, of Christchurch, appear for the plaintiff; and for the defendants, .the At-torney-General and Mr. Rees, of Napier. The first meeting of the Board of Education since the holidays was held to-day. A complaint was made by a certain up-country school committee that the wife of their schoolmaster was in the habit of coming into the schoolhouse and interfering with the female pupil teacher, of whom it appeared she was jealous. The Board resolved that the master in question must either assume the control of his wif 3 and keep her from the school, or else that he himself must leave. There is a strong public feeling against the site selected by the City Council for a Town Hall and Corporation offices. A public meeting will probably be held on the subject, to protest against the action of the committee. The ratable value of the city properties is this year put at £215,000. “ Martha” is being repeated at the theatre this evening with Mias Amy Sherwia in the leading part. Mr. Hoskins’ company concluded their season in Napier last night, and left to-day by the steamer Hawea for Christchurch. Their Northern trip has been a dead failure. At the trial of reapers and binders to-day, McCormick took the first prize ; Osborne was highly commended. Invercargill, Thursday. A milkman was arraigned in Court this morning for selling milk without a license. The Corporation solicitor prosecuted under clause 3 of the 44tb by-law of tewas. Mr.

Fenn, for thedefence, contended that the by-law contemplated a public market where produce of all kinds might be sold, and also that his client did not sell in the ordinary sense of th ' term, but merely supplied customers. M f - Connell, for the prosecution, urged that defendant should have had his license. Ihe Court thought the question important, and reserved its decision, to consider the points raised throughout. . The full returns for the I'd at aura election show—Shanks, 309 ; Kinross, 250. A. railway employe named *las. Atkinson died suddenly at Oreti yesterday afternoon. He was loading a truck, and suddenly' fell down, and died in a few minutes ; it is supposed of heart disease.