TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 979, 9 June 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. June 7. Foxton is to be declared a port of entry. Mr. Gordon Allen is going to commence ail action against Inspector James for the recovery of money and jewellery found on Gleich when arrested. The police contend that although Gleich escaped on technical grounds, the valuables belonged to his defrauded creditors. The Wellington Yolunteer Artillery iiave ofFered to go, and send up three guns with a. detachment to the front, if ; o[;ui ed. The Chronicle to-night states positively that the Government will not, next session, ask for authority to borrow more than three millions. A gentleman who lifts just returned from the scene of the Maori troubles in Taranaki informs the Chronicle that Te Whiti, in sending his followers to plough the lands of European settlers, is acting on the advice of Mr. Goo. Higginbothani, the great Victorian lawyer, who has given it as his opinion that the lands have never been legally confiscated. June 9. Dr. Buller, C.M.G., has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of England. The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company has followed the example of the Royal in withdrawing from the Association and adopting an independent lire tariff. The sale of the reclaimed land advertised for the 17th inst. has been postponed till further notice. The Governor returned from Nelson yesterday. CHEISTCJi UJ.'CH. June 7. Constable M'Devitt, who discovered a lire on Mr. Salisbury's premises a fewweeks ago, and kept it under until assistance arrived, lias been awarded L 5 from the Police Reward Fund. AUCKLAND. June 7. The Defence Minister inspected Volunteers to-day. Rewi was very indisposed, and did not venture out in such tempestous weather. The Hon. Mr. Sheehan made a speech, saying he did not apprehend trouble at Taranaki. bui if it came to the worst, he hoped the Volunteers would do their duty. Tlje insurance on Hardington's hotel was L17,Q00. The South British has a risk, but the amount is not known, In suppressing the fire, Tom Watts, a seaman on board the Hannah Makau, got badly burnt by being struck by a piece of iron, during an explosion in the premises, and died in the hospital shortly afterwards. June 9. O'Connor has issued a challenge to the Auckland pedestrians for a half-mile race, which has not yet been accepted. An old identity named Samuel Cochrane, auctioneer, is dead. A two-mile walking match between Hendry and Hill, for L4O, was won by the former. Time, 17min. 15sec. Rqece, who was killed at the Onehunga fire, leaves a wife and child. The footballers, cricketers, and boilerniakers of Auckland attended the funeral. The Rev. John Warren, of Onehunga, one of the earliest Wesleyan missionaries in the Colony, is seriously ill. A fire broke out in the premises of H. B. Morton, shipping agent, Custojn-house-street. The place was found securely locked. The fire broke out in the middle of three stores. There were six explosions, one of which knocked down the rear wall of the upper part of the building. Branchman Bailey fell down the hatchway, receiving personal injury, and the respirator was smashed. No one can account for the explosions. The fire was ultimately suppressed. The amount of insurance is said to be LGOOO, divided between the National, New Zealand, and Northern Insurance Cojnpa'nies, but the proportion has not been ascertained. The great bull case, Wheroro v. Hawke, has been concluded after a niner days' trial, in a verdict for the defendant, The total costs are over L3OO. Mr. Buckla- *1 deposed that the animal was worth a' ut Lo. Alex. Nejjl Ogilvie lias been arrested on a charge of embezzling L6O, the property of the Kawakawa Co.-operative Society. TIMARU. June 7. The harbor works crane was again put to the test of GO tons to-day, but just as the bioeks were fairly off the ground, one of the driving wheels went, and a delay of nearly another weak will be caused. In all probability the Harbor Board will call upon the contractor to test up to only 50 tons now, and deduct the difference in the value of the crane from his contract money. GISBORNE. June 7. Robert Cooper and John Broaie, who are under committal for a breach of the Arms Act, offered to enlist in the Armed

Constabulary for the front. Sergeant Kidd declined their services, as being ineligible. INVERCARGILL. June 8. The Riverton railway will be formally opened to-morrow. Mr. Conyers, Commissioner of Railways, Mr. Bach, General Manager of the Christchurch section, and Mr. Armstrong, Permanent Locomotive Engineer, arrived in town yesterday afternoon, in order to be present at the ceremony.