Late Telegraphic.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 19

Late Telegraphic.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Hokitika, November 26. Mr John McWhirter was elected County Chairman. About five hundred miners are now on the rush at Back Creek, Two more shafts struck gold to-day—one about half a mile from the prospectors..

A small rush has set in on the beach near the mouth of the Kapitea. It is shallow ground, and nothing definite is known as to the prospects a 3 yet. Gisborne, November 26.

A Native, named Tahaia, last evening was iu a great state of anger with his wife, and he was found hanging by a tether line, to one end of which was attached his horse grazing alongside the body. His wife turned np at noon to day, having been driven away from home last evening by her husband’s wrath. The County Council to-day received the following tenders for the ereotion of a bridge at Kaiteratahi: W. Elliott, Auckland (accepted), £3600 ; Weir and Sellars, Napier, £3695 ; Wells O’Connell, Auckland, £3792 19a; W. Cameron, Auckland, £4127. Christchurch, November 26. The Lyttelton Harbour Board to-day accepted the tender of W. Smith, of Christchurch. £2964, for the ereotion of buildings for cool storage of dairy produce. The Harbour Board decided not to engage labour for their sheds through the recently formed Stevedoring * Association, but to adhere to the present system of the foreman hiring any man he wished. The Railway Commissioners having refused to give up possession of the grain export shed, the Harbour Board have placed the matter in the hands of their solicitors, Messrs Harper and Co. Nelson, November 26.

The barque Haloiono sails for Picton on Friday, at whioh port she completes loading for London,

The Nelson regatta on Boxing Day la causing interest in hosting circles; Welling, ten, Westport and Blenheim will be repre. aented..

sft ? > Invercargill, November 26. ■— Since the Ist September, when the wharf labourers at the Bluff struck work, the Union Company have paid £I2OO to free labourers for work done, while the olo9ing of the West Coast and Newcastle mines Caused the Company to purchase 5500 tons of Southland brown coal, the . railway freight on which to the port was little short of £2OOO.

Auckland, November 26. The Gasworks Employees Union have opened a subscription list on behalf of the miners at Huntly who are out of work. The Auckland Regatta Club have resolved to include in their programme, at their next carnival the championship races of the N.Z. Amateur Rowing Association, and the re. gatta will extend over two days. Mr H. Phelps, an Evangelist well-known m Auckland, has died at Norfolk Island. At a special meeting of the shareholders of the South British Insuranoe Company to. day, it was deoided to reduce the capital of the Company from £2,000,000 to £1,900,000, cancelling the paid-up capital to the extent of £1 per shave upon each of the 64,628 shares now outstanding. Mr Leslie Macarthnr, an expert who re* oently arrived from Australia, says he ia deoidedly pleased with the Puhipuhi field, and that there can be no doubt as to it 3 future. The field must attract foreign capital sooner or later. He believes the • district has a better future than any he has seen in New South Wale 3, Victoria, or Tas« mania.

In connection with the Wesleyan Jubilee, services were held during to day at the Pitt street Wesleyan Church, and in the after* noon the Rev A. Reid preached a sermon, in which, he spoke of the establishment of Methodism in New Zealand, and the progress of that Church.

Dunedin, November 26. At the City Council to-night a letter was received from the Solicitor-General, oalling upon councilors to make good the sum of £73 15s, including £ll 5s for the reception of the Governor, £io refund of part of a wholesale license fee and some “shout”, collections. The iffty Solicitor gave the opinion that the first two were-recoverable. The Mayor offered to pay them, but the matter was referred to the Finance Committee, and if paid by the Mayor the sum will be voted to hire as salary. The Medical Association have authorised Dr W. Brown, of Dunedin, who is atpresent in Germany, to interview on their behalf Dr Koch with regard to his consumption cure.

The Mayor gave an official reception to the officers of the Frenoh warship. Lyttelton, November 26. The Regatta Committee have allotted £4O and £lO for the Champion Yacht Race on Ist January, and agree to subsidise visiting yachts to the extent of £5.

(from our own correspondent.) Masterton, November 26. The Wairarapa North County Council received an application for £6OO damagea from the relatives of the late Albert Spackman, who was killed by an accident last month. The Councillors decided to view the scene before replying. The Wairarapa North Rabbit Board have decided to get the report of two diem, terested persons concerning the steps taken for the destruction of rabbits on different properties in this district.

Mr R. S. Hawkins has been appointed re. preservative of the boroughß of Masterton, Carterton, and Greytown on the United District Charitable Aid Board, and Coun* cillors Cullen and Eton members of the Dis« trict Hospital Board for the borough of Masterton.