LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1189, 14 December 1894, Page 15

LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

Invercargill, December 11. Coyle (not Coles), one of the men drowned yesterday at the mouth of the Waiau, is believed: to have a wife and family of six children in Dunedin. . The Southland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Show opened to-day. Judging was confined ,to cattle and sheep, -in both of which classes there were considerable increases on last year's numbers. : v , ■ New Plymouth, December 11. ■ At the Wesleyan Synod of the Wanganui district to-day, the Eevs Bellhouse and Judkins were recommended to pass in their year, and Mr Richards was accepted as a candidate for the ministry. Gisborne, December 11. Three seamen of the ship Wellington, charged with refusing to obey orders, stated that when they were engaged in Wellington they handed their money to a restaurant-keeper to provide them with clothes, but that they were sent from Wellington and put on board the ship here without any clothing except what they stood in. The Magistrate adjourned the case ’for enquiry.', Auckland, December 11. At the Supreme .Court, in an action brought .by the Colonial Bank against. Matthew James Whitelaw, Kamo, to recover <£2160 10s 2d, balance of an account alleged to be owing by James Whitelaw and - the jury returned a verdict foi de- - f endant, with costs on the highest scale. Dunedin, December 11. A woman named Lintern, the wife of a gunner at the Central. Battery, dissolved 16 match heads this evening, and drank the solution. She was speedily attended to, and is now believed to be out of danger. Timaru, December 11. About 6000 bales were catalogued for the first wool sale of the season to-day. The top price was 7£d, and generally prices were lfd below those of last season. Christchurch, December 12. The Women’s Political Training Society, the object of which is to instruct women in the conduct of public meetings and the carrying on of political organisation, was formed to-night. Miss Scott was elected president, Mr G. W. Bussell, M.H.R. for Biccarton, addressed his constituents to-night and received a vote of thanks and confidence, and an expression of appreciation of the independent character of his criticism of public affairs.

Dean Jacobs and Archdeacons Harper and Lingard have been elected clerical representatives of the Diocese of Christchurch at the General Synod, and Sir John Hall, W. G. Britton, J. M. Batham and H. A. Webb have been elected lay representatives. Dunedin, December 12. r. The Wakatipu Hospital has been totally destroyed by fire. Incendiarism is susThe building was insured in the National office for .£I6OO. The patients were all removed safely to Queenstown. At a special meeting of the Licensing Committee to consider the question of conditional licenses, in view of the application of the Caledonian Society, it was decided to adhere to the previous decision to refuse all such licenses. It is understood that the committee will reconsider this and other matters after they have been a year in office. Auckland, December 12. ? It is expected that extensive repairs to the German warship Bussard will keep her here till February. Invercargill, December 12. At the Southland show luncheon, the Hon J. McKenzie spoke hopefully of the prospects of the district and of the Colony, urging that perseverance was all that was required to stem the depression caused by low prices. Old settlers, he said, had seen far worse times than the' present. There had been a time when two lambs sold for

3*Jj and that point had not been reached yet, and would hot. • /■■■'