TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 956, 13 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. May 12. The Exhibition Commissioners have received the following from Sydney, regardiny tlie wool exhibits : (1.) That under the head of Champion Prizes a gold medal shall be awarded for the best exhibits in sub-classes 1 to £1 inclusive, and also, that a gold or silver medal shall be in the discretion of the judges awarded to the most valuable exhibit in sub-classes 33 to :;i> inclusive. (2.) That the meaning of the definite " Best," as applied to subclasses to 2-4 inclusive, shall be wholly left to the determination of the judges, with the view that the grand prizes should be given to the exhibits in the said classes which possess the highest excellence. (3.) That the meaning of the word " strong,'' as used in describing the merino combing wools in Division B, shall apply to those wools which are of stouter or thicker fibre than those usually classed as " fine." It is fully recognised by the committee that all wools must be sound and strong to be tit f<>r combing. (4.) Although it is admitted that tlifliculties may arise in determining which exhibit of wool should at an international show obtain the champion prize, yet the committee think that with a mixed court of wool experts and growers of high-class wools a satisfactory award may be decreed, as was done at the Paris Exhibition. May 13. Information has bpen received in town that the Marine Hotel, Whakntaki, near G'astlepoint, lias been burned down. The cause of the fire is unknown. It is supposed to be insured for LI3OO. Clapa Phillips, whose house was burnt down on Sunday morning, was arrested to-day on a charge of arson, The case was remanded, for a week. CHRISTCH URCBT. May 10. Dr, Moritz Marks, who lately resigned from the hospital piedical staff, committed suicide this afternoon, by takjng morphia and chloral. TIMARU. May 13. A report has reached town that Mr. W. Ostler, of Ben Oliau station, Mackenzie Country, was found dead in bed thi3 morning. The Borough Council have received a favorable reply to their cable message to Sir Julius "Vogel asking him to aid in floating the Borough Waterworks debentures in London. WESTPOET, May 12. 1 Mr. R. Reeves addressed the electors at Reefton on Saturday evening. Tho hall was crowded, and the County Chairman presided. Mr. Reeves expressed himself jn favor of a further loan for the completion pf tli£ railway system, and advocated that main roads jn and thinly populated Counties be taken over by tjje General Government. IJe argued tlie necessity of the rapid construction of the trans-coastal )ii}» from Amberlcy toßrunnerton, and its connection with Nelson, by the Buller and Inangahua Valley. He expressed his intention to bring ip or supp.ort a Bill for the restriction of Chinese' immigration, he supported the natiye policy of

present Ministry; also the Land Tax Bill. An unanimous vote of confidence was passed. DUNEDIK May 12. The result of the crushing of 527 tons of quartz of the Tipperary Quartz Mining . Co., of Arrow, was 873 ounces of gold, yielding on an average a fraction over- loz. 13dwts. ogrs. per ton of quartz. INVERCARGILL. May 12. The adjourned enquiry into the circumstances attending the recent fire at block V., Mabel District, concerning which James and Patrick M'Menamin were arrested on suspicion of having caused it, was resumed to-day. After some evidence had been taken, the en--1 quiry was further adjourned until Wedl. uesday week. AUCKLAND. May 12. Dr. Thornly, who was recently appointed to the Asylum, is dangerously ill. Henry Keesing, aged 00, is dead. He . settled here in 1843, and leaves 100 grand and greatSt. .James' bazaar will realise nearly i L3OO Arrived—llinemoa, with 30 Otaki i natives for the Cambridge Lands Court. She experienced a severe hurricane oft' the East Cape, but received no damage. The steward of the barque Tamaye, 1 which arrived from London, yesterday, ' died suddenly this morning. A telegram was received late this afternoon from Hokianga, that one Hardiman has reported that a native named Warthen, ( living at Wairoa, near his place, killed his wife last night in a fit of jealousy, and bolted to the bush. Full particulars are not yet to hand. May 13. George Philip Priestly, G3 years old, gardener to Dr. Wright, was found dead last evening in the garden, the cause of death being heart disease. At an inquest on the body of Thomas Hicks, an old settler, who died at the Lunatic Asylum, a verdict was returned that he died from general debility.