TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 604, 9 April 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PER P.RESS AGENCY. ]

WELLINGTON". April 8. _ A fire occurred on the Terrace this afternoon. The house was insured in the Standard office, and the furniture for L 350 in the South British. The furniture was saved. The damage to the house is estimated at LIOQ. In consequence of the protracted dry weather, water is becoming very short. The Primitive Methodist Church was broken into on Sunday or Saturday night, and the mission boxes were robbed. Mrs Brewer, whose husband died a few davs ago, made a statement at the Resident Magistrate's Court, to-day, to the effect that she believed her husband died in consequence of the insufficient treatment of the two medical men who attended him. She says her husband would have lived if he had been attended to properly. It is said an order has been given to exhume the body, ! The following are the insurances on the saw mill reoently burned at Carterton : National, L2OO on building, L4OO on machinery, L2OO of which is reinsured in the South British, and Ll5O with the Phcenix. April 9. Arrived—lsabella and Endeavour, from Oamavu, In the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. G. E,. Barton obtained leave to postpone his motion for a writ of attachment against the Argus proprietary at the suit of Mr. E. T. Gillon. The case comes on .vain on Friday next. A CCKLAND. April 8. Mr Sheehan has ordered a re-hearing in re the Poll ton block of 50,000 acres. In consequence of a statementmade by a Native prisoner named Kingi, who is undergoing a sentence for horse-stealing, the Government has ordered a search to be made at Tauranga for the body of Potior, who was supposed to have been drowned there in August, 1876. Kingi told a fellow-prisoner it did not matter his having killed Potier, as he had suffered punishment for it. He said he killed Potier with a heavy piece of iron, in a boat, and tied it to the body. Entries and acceptances tor the Autumn Races close on Friday night. At the half-yearly meeting of the South British Insurance Co., to-day, the report and balance-sheet were adopted. The chairman pointed out that the assets of the company had now reached and the capital LIOO,OOO. The directors propose to make a re-insurance fund out of the prolits. The auditors, Messrs, White and Batager, were re-elected, and their honorarium increased from L 750 to LIOOO. The manager in acknowledging the vote of thanks to the directors, read a statement as to the cost of management of the company, as follows :—First year, 23-7 per cent. ; second, 1463 ; third 14" 38 ; fourth, 1415 ; for last half-year, 16" 47. The English fire insurance companies cost 27 per cent, for working expenses, and the South British was thus 10 or 11 per cent, below English or American companies, which latter reached 28 per cent. A man named John Henry Lamfra, employed at Orowther's stable, fell from the loft, a distance of 14ft. He sustained concussion of the brain, and died in a few hours. An inquest was held to day, at which a verdict of " Accidental Death " was returned. . •» ■ BLENHEIM. April 8. The census returns for Blenheim are complete, and show a population of 873 males and 817 females. In 1874- the population-was—males, 494; females, 441. Total increase since last census, 757. Pictou in 1874 showed—males, 393 ; females, 339. The present census shows 351 males, and 35™ females, or a decrease of 24. The population of the Province was 6145 in 1874; it is now 7752. NEW PLYMOUTH. April 8. The Harbour Board to-day appointed the Bank of New Zealand as its agents to raise the loan.