TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1036, 15 August 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. August 14. Sir George Grey will leave here on Iris Southern trip on the 21st inst., and is expected to return here by the 31sfc, when he will almost immediately leave for the North. The Governor leaves in the Hinemoa for Nelson to-morrow, on a brief nonofiicial visit. The commission of enquiry into the charges again3t Captain M'Kersie, of the Government steamer Stella, have sent in their report, which, it is understood, exonerates him. A basket containing a large quantity of gentlemen's underclothing was found near the breastwork this morning. The articles ' were identified as belonging to the officers 1 of H.M.S. Emerald, but how the basket reached the spot where it wns found is surrounded by mystery. Nothing is known of the person who conveyed the basket there, ar.d it is supposed that there 1 has been foul play. The police are making inquiries. 1 August 15. Parliament was dissolved to-day. 1 The City of Sydney, with the London mails of the 17th July, left San Francisco on 4th August. The Australia, with the 1 colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on 13th August, one day in advance of the contract time. Between the City Council and the insurance agents, the latter have received 1 double insurance rates in Wellington, owing to the defective water supply. AUCKLAND. August 14. The late Mr. Thomas Weston bequeaths LIOO each to the Parnell Orphan Home ; and the Auckland Dispensary ; also to St. Matthew's, St. Mary's, and St. Andrew's Episcopalian Churches. A weekly journal is announced in the Greyite interest, under the title of the Lantern. The construction of the third section of the Thames railway will be commenced at once. This will include the bridge over the Eaueranga. August 15. A curious case came before the Resident Magistrate to-day, when Mary Williams was. charged with deserting her children. Prisoner stated that she and her supposed husband had lived very .comfortably until she found out that he had another' wife in England. The alleged husband, William Williams, admitted that he had another wife in England at the time he married the prisoner, but she had died since the children were born. His Worship, under the circumstances, discharged the prisoner, and the children were committed to the Industrial School for five years. j The case against the captain and mate of the Minister of Marine for alleged cruelty to Alfred Coll was resumed today. Mr. Tyler applied to have the charge preferred against them separately, so as to get in the evidence of the mate or the captain for the defence. The Magistrate refused to grant the request. The police had to suppress a manifestation of applause thereupon. The cross-examina-tion in the case is proceeding. DUNEDIN. August 14. Mathew Hawkins, a well-known resident. was received into gaol to-day, under remand till to-morrow, charged with embezzling moneys, the property of the Union Building Society and Kaitangata Coal Company, of both of which he was secretary. Hawkins gave himself up to the police. The defalcations are variously stated at from LISOO to L4OOO. i Warrants were to-day issued for the . arrest of another well-known citizen for 1

forgery. He is said to have bolted to South America. "WANGANUI. August 14. The Wanganui Spring Race Meeting is fixed for Friday, the .7th November. L3OO will be given as stakes. NAPIER. August 14. There will be a sort of field day on Tuesday, when Colonel Whitmore and Mr. Sheehan will address a mass meeting after driving the first pile of the Port Ahuriri bridge. TIMARU. August 14. Mr. Moss Jonas, local auctioneer and one of the firm of Jonas, Hart, and Wildie, intends instituting proceedings for the recovery of L2OOO damages from the Dunedin Mercantile Gazette for publishing matter on the 9th August calculated to injure his credit. The matter complained of is in reference to an assignment, and is wholly misrepresented. GREYMOUTH. August 14. A serious accident occurred at the Coal Pit Heath Company's mine, Brunnerton, when a young man named John Parkins was dangerously injured. A shot had been fired the previous evening, displacing a large block of coal, leaving some of it overhanging. Parkins and another man endeavored to remove it, when it fell upon Parkins, burying him. "When he was released it was found that he had sustained a compound fracture of the leg, and severe internal injuries.