TELEGRAPHIC

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 7490, 30 May 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

(UNITED PHE33 ASSOCIATION.) Gisborne, May 29, Anxiety is felt here for the safety of tbe barque Bochuagar, which left here 142 days ago for Bondon, laden >Uh wool. Nothing has been heard of her since. Thera was only one passenger, Mr Ralph Arthur. Dunedin, May 29. At the City Court, Sydney Height was sentenced to two months’ bard labor for assaulting a Chinaman. The evidence disclosed a shocking state of immorality, the prisbner "obliging his wife to live with a Chinaman. He is well connected' in England, and is understood to be a remittance-man. HU children appeared in Court yesterday charged with theft. Andrew Dalziel, one of tbe original Otago settlers, died yesterday, aged 80. A man named W. B. Stanley, while cleaning the spouting on the roof of the City Hotel, slipped and fell through a skylight, falling a distance of 35ft on to asphalt in tbe backyard. He is not expected to live. Christchurch, May 29. At its meeting to-day, tbe Canterbury Chamber of Commerce resolved to interest the other Chambers of this and the Australian Colonies in a combined effort to reduce the charges on cable messages sent by k the New Zealand line. The Chamber also resolved to send to the South Sea Islands to inquire, in the interests of this part of the Colony, into all matters of commercial interest there, the cost to be borne by subscriptions raised In Canterbury. ■> • Tbe Women’s Gospel Temperance Union, organised here by Mrs Beavitt, have resolved to take vigorous action in the city and suburbs. They have been divided Into districts for tbe purpose of a bouse to house canvass by the ladies, and public meetings are to be held* monthly; Auckland, May 29.

Charles Hoy, an old man, dropped dead at Otahubu from heart disease. He bad been drinking. The steamer Maogregor has been successfully floated off the rooks at Kawau and beached at Boa Accord Harbor, where she will be repaired and brought on to Auckland. The City North Licensing Committee have notified to no less than six hotels objections to renewing licenses, on the grounds of Sunday trading, insufficient accommodation, and not being required ia the neighborhood. Steps are being taken to canvass the city with a view of re-establishing a company with ajsnggested capital of £60,000, to work La Monte’s patent for gold saving. Mr T. Thompson, member for the City North, addressed his constituents to-night. He’ fexiwesSbd bis regret that jjresent (yoyernment was hot formed on purely party litres, and saw'no hopes of It next session, or indeed io the present ParllainenL |Je bitterly fi'eDOUQC§4 the district railways sphere, «od deprecated the enormoU* dgfeupp tare through the war scir* ibougfat the expenditure should have been extended for a series of years. He was averse to the annexation of F'ji to New Zealand, and preferred federation of the Empire to federation of the Australasian Colonies. A vote of confidence was unanimously accorded. At the sitting of the Electoral Revision Court for the City North a curious claim cropped up, A protest was entered against Mr J t Kosa, of Messrs Sargood, Son and Ewen, who, being struck off the roll for a freehold qualification for an'kllotment upon which the firm’s yrapoboueg stands id registered under the Land Transfer Act ia the name of Sargood, The question was adjourned iq order that Mr J, P, Campbell, solicitor, might call evidence to show causa to have the name retained on the roll. Considerable importance attached to the decision, as It is considered it will affect all joint stock and other companies of the-city, by giving all shareholders possessed of £25 a qualification to vote. » Rkeston, May 29. The election of Chairman of the County vloqpoll wag fixed for Wednesday last, the

Clerk of the Connell presiding, Whsa it came to voting, the parties were three aud three, and tha County Clerk claimed the right to exercise a casting vote, and did so in favor of Mr 0. R- Craig. Mr Menteath protested against the legality of the Clerk’s action, and the meeting was adjourned till yesterday to taka outside legal advice. On the Council meeting to-night, Mr 0. R. Craig did not take the Chairman’s seat, the inference being that the legal opinion obtained had been adverse to the action of the Clerk. Mr Craig almost immediately proposed Mr Menteath as temporary Chairman, aud to this there was no amendment. The motion was carried unanimously, Mr R. C. Menteath was subsequently elected County Chairman,