TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

! The Dunedin Hospital Trustees, by a majonty, have appointed Dr Copeland house surgeon and Ltr Barclay house physician, with alternate duties every six mouths. The J rustees have elected Dr Maunaell to the from'the on his retirement The sale of the Princess Theatre and Provinctal.Hotel, Dunedin, was concluded yesterday Jhe purchaser is Mr J. A. Barr, agent for a. Melbourne capitalist. The price is withheld. * Mr White telegraphs from the Bluff that the Omapere arrived there at daylight, having waited eight boms at Deep Cove! The party sent ashore found the provisions intact, and no sicna of Piofessor Brown The Stella leaves for Deep Cove at 10 o’clock this morning and the relief party will make the Saddle if possible. The new Cathedral of St John’s, Napier, was consecrated yesterday by the Bishop of VYaiapu. There wa?. an immense assemblage within the walls of the building, aud the ceremony was grand and impressive. A public lialf-lioliday was observed on the occasion, all the shops being closed. In connection with the fire at Wilson’s fiaxmiil at Masterton yesterday, there is no insurance on the stock or machinery. Mr John Parkes Jervois met with an accident near the East Cape last week, some trees failing on him and breaking his ribs. He is .ecovering, Mr Jervois is a full cousin t® the Governor. Dr Hodgkinson addressed the Wal.ace electors, and received a vote of thauks aud oonfiden.ee. In the course of his remarks ho advocated the sale ot the lailways. The son of / William Basstisu has been drowned in Jacob’s River, near Otautau. Most encouraging reports are to hand of the tin discoveries at Stewart Island. Professor Black, who . made the trip overland from Half-m>.on Bay, a distance of 35 miles, occupying four days, owing to the roughness of the country and the density of, the bush growth, is still at the island engaged in investigations. Major G-ring says that Mitchell’s party searched fully round the locality of White’s camp up to the foot of the saddle, which it is believed Brown .endeavoured to ascend, but not the slightest trace has been found. Mitchell, though waist deep, ascended the second saddle over a mile beyond the other, and from it saw two deep gorges, one leading, he believes, to the head of Hall’s Arm, the other into a deep ccve. Major Goring thinks that Professor Brown was caught by an avalanche and buried, therefore the body may never be recovered.—" With one year’s knowledge and experience he has had of bush travelling in this Colony, he could not have believed' it possible that the weather would change so abruptly from warm to the fiercest winter. Mr .W. Hutchison has been re-elected President of the Dunedin Protection League by a substantial majority over Mr Shelton. Mr Hutchison strongly urges the League to watch all action in regard to the'tariff. Sir H. Atkinspn defended the tariff on the ground of financial necessity, and not as fostering native industries. This fact was emphasised when they found increased duties imposed! upon articles which could not be grown or manufactured in the Colony, l’he system was repugnant to a Protective policy. Taking this into account, and coupling with it the existence of a small but compact and eneigetic party of Freetraders in the House, who would lose no opportunity of attacking the tariff, they would see there was need of vigilance. One other thing he felt impelled to say was that it might be necessary ere long to widen the basis of the League, so as to make it protective of labour as well as of the products of labour. Manufactures would grow under a Protective tariffj and manufacturers would be prosperous, bat in ‘ these circumstances it would be a poor thiug if workers continued inadequately paid, as they had recently been—so poor a thing that ho would look upon their victory as a very barren victory. The charge against Griffiths at Dunedin of stealing a riDg was withdrawn unconditionally by the prosecution, and regret was expressed that criminal proceedings had been taken. The finishers and henchmen at Kingsland and Co.’s boot factory, Invercargill, have struck owing to a dispute as to the payment on making and finishing women’s grand and calf balmorals. ' Three girls—Alice Harrison, Amy Davis, and Henrietta Palmer—all about 19, were charged at the Christchurch Police Court with attempting to set fire to Phillimore Lodge, a private female refuge of which they were inmates in January last. .The facts of the case were not gone into. The accused were remanded until 28th December. Thomas Barnett, the well-known Auckland pork bntcher, died suddenly on Friday night of heart disease. He was seized with severe pains while walking from business, and died .in a vehicle which he hailed to assist him home. Mr G. F. Richardson ft Auckland on Friday for Whangarei, to visit the NortherS villages special settlements. He was accompanied by Mr Hobbs, M. H. 8., Mr Gordon, Inspecting Engineer of Mines, and Mr Percy Smith, Assistant Surveyor-General. Mr It. Thompson, M.H.R, will join the party at Wbangatei. Mr Richardson has made arrangements to visit the cinnabar deposits at Oliaewai, The Auckland Rifle Association's annual balance-sheet shows a credit balance of £l2. The date of the competition is fixed for the 26th and 28th January. It has been resolved to give Whitney’s ammunition a trial. H.M.S. Orlando, with Admiral Fairfax, which left Sydney ou the 17th, was expected to arrive in Auckland on Friday. A fire broke out at midnight on Friday in a shed at Southsxde, Blenheim, used for tallow"-boiling, which was burned down. It was.- the property of Mr Rayner. The damage is £SO, and there is no insurance. Thatcher, cook at the Waitopai Flaxmill, who was charged with stabbing Kersey, a workman, in the thigh with a fork, has been committed for trial. Sir H. Atkinson, Messrs Fergus and Mitehelssn arrived at Christchurcn, from the South, on the 19th.