TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 868, 27 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON. January 2G. The privileges at the coming races were sold to-day, and realised L 530. The directors of the Gas Company recommend a second dividend for the year, which will raise the total to 15 per cent, for th» year, and add LIOOO to the reserve ■fund.

Messrs. Meek, of Gamaru, are said to have taken Messrs. Kebble's flour mills in tJjis city, to start milling. Py^EDIN. January 26. A telegram to-day from Mr. Grant, who is at Gore, reports Mr. Conycrs passed a good night, and this morning conscious-

ness returned. He recognised Mrs. Conyera, his boy, artd all in the room. It has been decided to connect Portobello with Port Chalmers by telephone, instead of telegraph. The breach of promise case Cayford against Carruthers has been settled. The case was to come before a common jury at the Supreme Court to-day. The plaintiff, a barmaid, had become intimate with Carruthers, who is a son of the late while following the bar at Invercargul. She sought to recover fifteen hundred pounds damages for a breach of promise and seduction. On the jury assembling this morning the following memorandum from defendant's solicitors was read : " The defendant admits that his pleas were based on erroneous information, and withdraws the same ; and consents to the same being struck out, and judgment entered for the plaintiff for two hundred pounds, without costs."

A party of young men went out yachting in the bay yesterday, and were about to plunge into the water to have a bath when they saw a 16ft. shark and four smaller ones eagerly waiting for them. Mr. "Varley's services are drawing big houses. Men are stationed in the streets distributing his hand-bills, and Mr. Green has boys watching his meeting and serving out invitations to the crowds that assemble, asking them to attend Mr. Green's discourses.

Mr. Charles Bright delivered his farewell lecture to a full house at the Princess Theatre last night. He is to be honored by a valedictory soiree on Thursday evening.

PORT CHALMERS. January 27. Arrived "Western Monarch, from London, via Bluff; Hong Hong, from Newcastle.

AUCKLAND. January 27. The Auckland Oil Company have declared a dividend of nearly 7 per cent. The competition for representatives at the meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association resulted as follows: —Rifle Volunteers—E. Cooper (Victoria Company), Allen (Engineer Company), Fairs (Victoria Carbines), Bowden and Wolley (Artillery). Masefield and Co., iron founders, have completed a second massive set of iron palace gates for the King of Tonga similar to those shipped by the firm, to the order of Macarthur and Co.

Robert C. Grant, purser of the Taupo, died early this morning. He went yesterday to Onehunga, for a drive with the officers of the vessel, and took ill after tea in the evening. Dr. Dawson was called in, and reported that death had occurred through sunstroke. Deceased was a native of Scotland.

TIMARU. January 20. An inquest was held at the Hospital on Saturday, on the body of a patient named John Cassidy, admitted on Thursday, suffering from typhoid fever. Information had been given by another patient to the police that the man had been murdered by the use of the straight jacket. The jury attached a rider to the verdict thai the straight jacket should not have been used. The man was being treated as though suffering from delirium tremens. ASHBURTON. January 27. At a committee meeting of the County Council to-day, Mr. Baxter, of Oamaru, was appointed" County Engineer at a salan of LSOO. NAPIER. January 26. Kelsall, the drill instructor of the Native Volunteers, was shot in the leg on the rifle range this afternoon. Some members of the Rifle Association were firing, when Kelsall, who was marking at tin butts, came out showing the danger flag, is he thought the shooting was finished. A carbine bullet struck him in the calf oi the leg, going right through the left leg. He was attended to by Dr. De Lisle, ana is progressing favorably. NELSON. January 26. Mr. Acton Adams addressed the electors last night, and received a vote of thanks. He spoke decidedly against denominational education and Mr. Curtis' Bill, ana disagreed with the Government policy on many points.