TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 771, 10 December 1886, Page 26

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.) t Christchurch, December 2. Sir Julius Vogel came by special train from Dunedin to-day, and left for Wellington by i the Mararoa to-night. Yesterday Mr Martin, Crown Prosecutor, was shooting at Waiau with a Snider rifle and Auckland ammunition, when the cartridge exploded, blowing away the breach block, which narrowly missed his face. He was somewhat scorched by the powder^ ; V'. Timaru, December 21

At a meeting of the Court Southern Cross, A.0.F., it was decided that Brothers Hill and Burford, P.C.R.’s, should attend the Foresters’ Conference in Wellington on the 14th and 15th instant. ■ l . :

Dunedin, December 2,

A child named Hannan, who was knocked down on the 30bh ultimo by a horse which was bolting, has died from the effects of the injuries received. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest. At the annual meeting of the Walton Park Coal Company a report recommending an 8 per cent, dividend was adopted, and the retiring Directors were re-elected. A complaint was again made that the Company di£ not receive a fair opportunity of supplying coal to the Government Bail ways. Mr Williams, the manager of the National Insurance. Company, proceeds to San Francisco on the company’s business. The Invincible Company has crushed 196 ounces from 260 tons.

Greymouth, December 2.

An Electric Lighting Company to light Reefton by electricity has been successfully floated. The capital is represented by 20,009 shares at ss. The electric engineer and conductor is Mr Walter Prince.

New Plymouth, December 2.

Matthew Burnett's temperance demonstration attracted large numbers, and a procession with a band marched through the streets. He remains in the district till Sunday, and will be in Wanganui on Monday, and Wellington by Thursday, where he will hold* a farewell meeting prior to his ture for Sydney. Napier, December 2.

A man named .Md ne » returning home after work yesterday evening, found his wife under the influence of liquor. An altercation ensued, and the woman attacked him with a carving knife, severely wounding him in the wrist and knee.

A little boy named Herbert Fringe was 'drowned in Tuki Tuki while bathing. Ashburton, December 2. Shortly after midnight the store of Hibbs Brothers, at Meihven, was destroyed by fire. The cause was accidental. The insur-

ances on the building are £450 iq the Sonth British, and £IOOO in the Liverpool, London and Globe. The loos is considerably above the insurance.

Auckland, December 2.

At the New Zealand Iron and Steel Company’s meeting to-day, it was resolved to wind up the concern. This marks another failure of the colonial manufacture of iron. The Northern Boot and Shoe Company, at the annual meeting to-day, declared a dividend of 10 per cent. Invercargill, December 2.

The Committee of the Blue Ribbon Band Bazaar to be held next week have agreed that no raffling, games of chance, shooting galleries, or gambling in any shape or form, shall be allowed. Some members thought exception should be made in favor of shooting galleries, but the majority ruled against them.

The dairy factory movement is meeting with great favor in Southland. Nearly a dozen are already at work, and others are projected. Every inland centre will soon possess one. The milk, for the moat part, is taken to the factories over roads, but in some instances it is carried ten or twelve miles by rail. Palmerston North, December 2.

George Marsh, who waa recently arrested in Auckland while living with another woman, on a charge of wife desertion, was brought up at the Court and ordered to pay 153 a week for the support of his wife and children, and find sureties to the extent of £2OO for six months, in default one month’s imprisonment. Not being able to find the sureties he went to gaol. Christchurch, December 3.

The Agricultural and Pastoral Association have decided that, if the various bodies asked to support the proposed Colonial Wool and Grain Exhibition do not see their way to do so, a grant be asked for from the public exchequer. Dunedin, December 3. About 59 applications have been heard in Dunedin by Majors Gudgeon and Crowe, commissioners appointed to hear claims of old soldiers. Twenty of the applications are from Volunteers.

The Art Society's Exhibition has closed after attracting considerable attention. Pictures to the value of £595 have been sold during the exhibition. A man named Thomas Steward, alias McGregor, waa arrested on board the Manapouri, after vigorously opposing the police, on a charge of deserting his wife and six children at Wellington. He was brought up to-day, and remanded to Wellington. In the case of Mills v. Mills and Ferrier, the Court to-day granted a decree absolute.

Blenheim, December 3.

The disputes in the borough schools have culminated in the committee calling on the Board to separate the sexes in the higher standards, and place the girls under an independent head mistress, on the ground that the present system by which the upper boys and girls are taught together endangers the morals of the young folks. The disputes have lasted several years, one mistress having been sent to the Lunatic Asylum. Napier, December 3.

In the divorce case Eagelton v. Eagelton and Saeffer, a decree nisi was granted, with costs against the co-respondent. / Bluff, December 3.

The Harbor Board tug leaves this afternoon for the Snares, to search for castaways supposed to have been wrecked there. Auckland, December 3.

The Thursday half-holiday has received its qaietus in a resolution of the Drapers’ Early Closing Association releasing from their engagements .those who pledged them* Belves to closing on Thursdays. J. 3. Gibbons has issued a writ against the Union Insurance Company for the recovery of the amount of insurance on the late fire at Onehunga, which was the subject of inquiry, and found to be due to incendiarism. c ' I

' ■ A number of young men from Waikato have started for the Teetulpa GoldSelds. The police report to the City North Licensing Committee is most unfavorable. Seven houses have been reported. An agent is reported as missing. His liabilities are put at £2OOO. 7 , Auckland, December 4.

The race between Cosson and Shaw for £IOO and the mil© championship of New Zealand resulted in a splendid race, the latter winning by ten yards. That between Connell and Horne for £2O was a capital ruu. Connell won. For the nine-mile bicycle race there were nine starters. It resulted thus Marshall, 1 ; Gledhill, 2 ; Leckie, 3. A. Stewart was scratched. Docember 5.

The body of a woman of about 50 years of age was found floating off the Queen-street wharf this morning, in an advanced stage ©f decomposition. It has not yet been identified.

Great dissatisfaction is expressed with the conduct of the Government toward the share, holders of the Rotorua Railway. The paymeht of the purchase money, which has been delayed many months, was definitely promised to be made this week, but the Government demanded a receipt in full after deducting about . £6OO. The Directors of the Company decline to grant this, and payment of the money is indefinitely postponed. Invercargill, December 5.

At a quarter-past 5 there was no sign of the return of the tug Awarua, which was sent on a search for supposed castaways on the Snares. The weather i 3 cloudy, however, and the signalman on the Bluff Hill could only see a mile to seaward. Christchurch, December 5.

A woman named Mary Beechley, aged 50, died yesterday evening rather suddenly. She had been drinking heavily lately. On Friday night she sfopt out in her garden. She was found about 3 a.m. yesterday, was taken with a fit shortly after, and never recovered.

Christchurch, December 6.

Nearly £SO has been subscribed in town to give a picnic on anniversary day to men employed on relief works. About 280 men with wives and families will be present at the picnic. _ At the inquest on the body of Lithia Beachey, a verdict of death from drink was returned.

Dunedin, December 6.

The question of the peaches and whiskey, which the City Councillors had ordered to regale themselves and friends with at the

Botanical Gardens, but which the Gity Auditors refused to pass, came up' for discussion at the City Council, when it was decided to hold the matter over till the visit of the Controller. General.

The Jewish bazaar, which has been open for the past fortnight, closed this evening. It is believed that £2OOO will be realised. The City Corporation are claiming ratoß from the High Schools Board, but the latter are advised by their solicitors that they are not liable.

The dredge which Messrs K incaid, Macqueen and Co. have built for the New River Harbor Board is to be launched to-morrow. Ninety-five candidates have entered for matriculation, medical' preliminary, and junior scholarship examinations. Hokitika, December 6.

The Bank of New Zealand have shipped 29100 z of gold bullion, valued at £11,640, being the month’s pu -chases. Christchurch, December 7. A private telegram from London,, states that the frozen meat market is very dull. Stocks are so heavy that they cannot be reduced to reasonable limits till after the new year. . '

Timaru, December 7.

The new wharf was opened for traffic to-day. The schooners Spray and Alert were the first vessel's taken alongside. The accommodation is now ample for 230 ton vessels at the wharf named.

The statement that Claridge,. who was so fearfully iuj'ured yesterday, died at the Hospital, was wrong; The man is alive, and is doing well in the Hospital. Dunedin, December 7. An inquiry into the circumstances of the fire at the goods shed on Sunday is to be opened on Friday.

Some scheelite, from which very good prospects have been obtained, has been found on the Otago Peninsula; Blenheim, December 7. The Education Board has declined to adopt the report of the Blenheim School Committee to the effect that certain charges of tampering with the scholars’work during the standard examination, and other irregularities, had been< proved against Mr Lucas,. the head master. The majority of the Board held, after reading Inspector Hodgson’s explanation, that the evidence taken by the Committee in the inquiry, which lasted some weeks,, did not warrant the report or recommendation. The charges were originally brought by Miss Harding, assistant mistress, whose brain gave way just as the inquiry concluded, and who is now in Wellington Asylum. The painful affair produced much public agitation here.. The Board at its January meeting, will consider a proposal to place the girls under a head mistress, free from Mr Lucas’ control. Auckland, Deoember 7.

The Auckland Presbytery to-day unanimously resolved to accept the resignation of the Rev Mr Killer, of Whangarei, who had started to practice law. An application from the Rev C. Worboys, Primitive' Methodist, to be received into the Presbyterian ministry was discussed at length, and it was unanimously resolved to recommend to the General Assembly that the application be granted. An inquest hasbeen held on the body of the woman found in the harbor. The body was not identified, and an open verdict was returned. . The members; of the- Congregational Church, Bereaford-streefc,. have sent a unanimous call to the Rev James- Chew, of Atcheson, Kansas, U.S„

Nelson, December 7. Mr Price- Williams,, who was Bent from England on behalf of a company having a capital of £15.000. to inspect the coal lease at Collingwood, expresses himself well satisfied with the appearance of the mine. He had the coal removed from the; face-and tried on the steamer coming to> Nelson, and in a locomotive on the railway.. He was well pleased with the resultsMr Brodie Hoare,, Mr Alan Scott, and the members of the Midland Railway Board of Advice leave Nelson on the 20th instant, for the Weßt Coast, overland. Feiemng, December 7.

Mrs Richard Bowler has burst a blood vessel, and Mr Blackmoro, an army veteran, has been thrown from his horse, and is dangerously injured-