TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 808, 13 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. November 12.

In consequence of the reported want of success of Madame Tasca's concerts, Mdllc. Charbounet will not visit Christchurch or Dunedin. The contract between Mdllc. Charbonnet and Mr. Montagu has been cancelled by mutual consent.

CHRISTCHURCH. November 12. The Christchurch Hospital costs LooOO per annum. A factory for the manufacture of ice has been started in Christchurch by Liudeman and Fovell. Railway traffic was resumed this morning on the north line, It had been partially stopped by the Waiinakariri overflowing again. A deputation of the Chamber of Commerce will wait upon the Colonial Secretary tomorrow to urge upon him the.necessity for defence works being immediately undertaken at Lyttelton Harbor in View of the present serious aspect of European affairs. —» November 13. The ship A.W.ianrler arrived from York yesterday, with a cargo of reapers and binders. The New Zealand agents of the Wood reaper and binder received a cablegram from London yesterday informing them that at the trial under the auspices of the Highland Agricultural Society, held at Liberton, Tower Main, Hie Wood machine received the iirsfc prize (a gold medal), the other machines competing being the Osborne and M'Cormiek. The Ashburton races commence to-day. Mr. Creswiek will probably arrive in Dunedin in February next. He plays throughout New Zealand under the auspices of Mr. Geprgc Parrel!. The dramatic season here closes in ten days, when the company go to Wellington., Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins will probably proceed to Auckland.

WANGANUI. November 12. At the commencement of the Wangauui harbor improvement works to-day a large party on two steamers proceeded to the spot marked out by the Fngincer, and in a formal manner Mr. Thos. Bamber, the Chairman of the Harbor Board, cast in the first block of stone. Speeches of a complimentary and laudatory character were made. Mr. John Bryee, the member for Wanganui, and the Hon. John Ballanco, member for Rangitikei, responded to the toast of the Houses of Assembly. All the speakers expressed great faith in the success of the works, and in the future of the port and district of Wanganui. *— '■ INVEECAKGILL. Novemer 12. At a meeting of the Bluff Harbor Board it was decided to at once call for tenders for extending the Bluff wharf 400 feet. Dr. Mcnzies, speaking on the Harbor Act, concurred with the proposed change in the constitution of the Hari or Boai-d. He was of opinion that from the position of the Bluff it would eventually be the key of the Colony. A child 19 months old, son of Mr. Reynolds, a surfaceman at Lowther, died in the train while being brought here for medical aid. $ AHAURA. November 12.

The weather throughout the Grey Valley was unprecedented for its severity on Saturday night. A number of men are employed clearing the town and roads from slips and fallen trees. The promptitude of the County Chairmau is to be commended. Yesterday the wind was so great that a child of Mrs. Ettie, Nelson Creek, was lifted off its feet, and carried into the stream. The body was recovered this morning. It is the most severe and protracted winter known to old West Coasters,

—----#- —=—™- AUCKLAND. November 12. At the auction sale of the sixty-six years' lease of the reclaimed laud on the allotment fronting Queen-street, prices ranged from L2 10s to L 7 5s per foot. Great preparations are being made for the agricultural show to-morrow, which is ex* pected to be a great success. A hundred men have been engaged at the Thames for the To Awamutu railway extension, at 8s per day. _ ALEXANDRA. November 12. Another report concerning the wanderer Hiroke has arrived at Hikurangi. A native named Tumahi has just returned from Pavihaka, who states he saw and conversed with Hiroki, who is not wounded at all, and that when he saw the search party looking for him lie put his puraki mat and hat on a stump, Vhich was fired at, the mat only being wounded, Hiroki escaping unhurt. He also says that if Sheehan goes for him To Whiti will not give him up unless the land is returned. :—& — —. —. GRAHAMSTOWN. November 12. The Volunteer review and sham fight yes-, terday was a great success. About 300 Thames Volunteei-s and 75 of an Auckland company took part. Everything passed "off successfully. There wore two accidents.. A gunner fell off an Armstrong carriage, .'and the wheel passe.d over his body. He lies in a precarious condition at the Hospital. A cadet shot a youth—a spectator —witla blank cartridge, but tho lad is not seriortsly injured. ; ■ "

TLMAPvU". ;; ; ; November 13. A new journal:to to'called the Evening Telegraph, is- to be" -started here in a few days -by W--local firm, and a share of patronage 'has been promised by the leading merchants, tradesmen, and others. ♦ NAPIER. November 12. At an inqne3t to-day on ths bpsf Of John Rowbottom, who wa3 killed last evening on the railway, it appeared that when the train was-'close to-.Kapler he stepped off, thinking the train had arrived at the station. Holding on by the stanchion of the carriage he swung under the train and received such injuries that he died before anyone could get to him to pick.him up , A man named Charles Stewart is to be brought up at the R. M. Court to-morrow on a very serious charge of appropriating jewellery. A packet containing some valuable articles of jewelery reached the Napier Post Office from London addressed to Charles Stuart, Criterion Hotel. The Post Office people here, knowing that Charles Stewart had been barman of the Criterion Hotel, thought the packet v/as for him, notwithstanding that the surname was spelt somewhat differently, and sent the packet to him at Havelock, where he was keeping the Pacific Hotel, and it being a registered packet he gave the usual receipt for it. Subsequently Charles Stuart saw a female wealing a locket which was one of the articles he had been expecting from London. He made inquiries at the Post Office, and was shown Charles Stewart's receipt. Stewart has been arrested.

HOKITIKA. November 12. There is a very heavy sea on, also a flood in the rivers. It has been terrible weather for several days. The coaches and steamers are all delayed again, —: «—,—-^ [Special Telegram to the Daily Times.] % Roxburgh, Nov. 12. A fatal accident occurred yesterday at the Pomahaka diggings. Henry Lawson, a miner, went to work in his claim, aud not returning to his meals as usual, hi* M r ife went in search and discovered him al nsst covered by a fall of earth in his claim. x<Yom appearance it seems as though he had been completely buried with earth, and the water had afterwards cleared a portion away, leaving the upper part of the body exposed. The face of the claim is only about six feet deep.