TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 869, 28 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(feu press association). WELLINGTON. January 27. Mr. F. Luhning, tobacconist, well known in Dunedin and on the West Coast, attempted to get off the tramway to-day without asking the guard to stop. The train was going about seven miles an hour. Mr. Luhning stumbled and fell right under the wheels, which passed over his body, mutilating him frightfully. Death was almost instantaneous. Lad}* Normanby was suddenly taken ill la.st night. Two medical men were with her all night. She is reported better to-day. The Club has invited the Governor to a farewell dinner. January 28. The annual elections for School Committees passed off very quietly last night. Complaints were -made in one or two instances at the unsatisfactory position in which the Act placed the Committees as regards the strict relations to the Education Board, DUNEDIN. January 27. The contributions on Sunday, on laying the foundation stone of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, amounted to L 2750. The meeting for the election of the Dunedin School Committee, at the Temperance Hall to-night, was crowded. Nearly all the ministers of religion in Dunedin were present, and several came in from the country. An election card was prepared by the Bible in Schools Committee, and circulated. It was in favor of K. Ramsay, J. Dick, Livingstone, W. D. Stewart, W. M. Hodgkins, and G. P. Farquhar. The result of the election is expected to some extent to be a" test of public opinion on this subject, which is exciting great interest, and creating party spirit. Mr. Varley was present. January 28. Messrs. K. Ramsay, E. Nathan, Thos. Dick, J. Robin, W. D. Stewart, A. R. Livingstone, and G. P. Farquhar were elected as the new Schools Committee. A young man, whose father died recently, has just discovered among his papers a cheque for LBSO, drawn by O'HaUoran and Brown, on the City of Glasgow Bank, in 1853.

A woman named Jane Martin was prosecuted for stabbing a man ; named Williams in the ribs with a shoemaker's knife. . • The row was the result of a neighbors' fend of a year's standing, and occurred over the stretching of a clothes line. Defendant said Williams danced on her, and one of her witnesses said'he murdered while-another declared he used Her as if .she had beerihis own wife. ; The Bench held the one to be as bad as the other, and dismissed Martin, offering if necessary to bind over Williams., ..Robinson, a negro bottle gatherer, was brought up for vagrancy, and dischargedon promising to clean himself. The police had arrested him solely that he should be shampooed in gaol. CHRISTCHURCH. January 27. At the Police Court this morning a man was charged with " endeavoring in impose on a private individual by a false representation with a view' to obtain a benefit or advantage." The case was not gone into, but it transpired that the evidence which would be offered was to the effect that the accused had gone up to some persons whom he saw in the park and insinuated that they had been doing wrong, at the same time threatening to report them to Inspector Hickson, leading them to suppose that he was a detective officer. Inspector Hickson informed the Bench that there had been various complaints, and he trusted that the publicity which would now be given might enable the police to proceed further. The inquiry was adjourned for a week. At the City Council meeting to-night, a Committee was appointed to take into consideration the proper reception of His Excellency, on his way to the South. No official intimation of his visit has yet been re.ceived. A letter was read from the Lord Provost of Glasgow, giving particulars of the Bank disaster, and a full statement of liabilities, with a request for help. After some discussion, it was decided to call a public meeting on the matter. AUCKLAND. January 28. The Commissioner of Customs has received the following telegram : —" Wangaroa, 27th January.—Life-buoy belonging Nymphe, Auckland, found at Heads by natives, delivered me to-day.—Owen Davis, pilot." At the Wesleyan Conference the income of the Foreign Mission Fund was reported as follows :—Auckland, L 32 ; Taranaki and Wanganui, LIS ; Wellington, L 34 ; Nelson, L 22 ; Canterbury, L 49 ; Otago, Lls. The subscribers list to the New Zealand Wesleyan was reported to be steadily increasing under the editorship of the Rev. Mr. Morley. Its weekly publication was recommended to the connection. The fire insurance report was adopted. The Three Kings' Institute income was L 857, and the expenditure L 824. Mr. Edward Rich, a settler of 40 years' standing, died suddenly of apoplexy. NELSON. January 27. At the District Court to-day, Theodore Wilson and William Mercer were sentenced to two years and eighteen months respectively, for stealing furniture from their employer's warehouse. A point of law was raised by Mr. Pitt for prisoners, which was reserved for the Supreme Court. TIMARU. January 27. The weather during the last few days has been oppressively hot. The thermometer yesterday was 93 in the shade ; sickness is consequently (owing also to. the want of water) very prevalent. Four deaths—all children—occurred in town from typhoid fever on Saturday. Diptheria is also very general. . IXYERCARGILL. Januaiy 27. The crops throughout the Mataura district are reported to be in fine condition, and a heavy yield is anticipated. January 28. The Hon. Mr. Ballance turned the first sod of the Waimea Plains railway, yesterday, at Gore. The township was quite lively with visitors from Invercargill. The usual congratulatory speeches were made on the ground, and at the public luncheon that followed. The line is thirty miles long, and runs through magnificent country, principally in the hands of the largest shareholders in the line, who intend to cut the land up into small settlements. This is the first instance of arailway beingstarted successfully under the provisions of the District Railways Act. At the banquet great praise was given to Mr. Horace Bastings, M.H.R., for the energy displayed by him in surmounting difficulties in the law as it stands at, present. The doctors yesterday assured Mr. Ballance that Mr. Conyers, though weak, was improving, and likely to perfectly recover. PALMERSTON (Wellington). January 27. Sawmillors here say they could supply all the railway sleepers the Government wani, if they were given the chance.