TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1076, 1 October 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEI: AS.-ociation). AI.'C K LAND. September 30. At the funeral of Father Grander this forenoon, the Very llev. Father Fyans. Vicar General, celebrated roijnieiti mass at S:. I'atrick's Cathedral. There was a ' large procession to the cemfiery. ! At the parade of ;!:•.• Thames Volunteers, Jieiii'en • n btttiaif of tile Waitoa settlers, thanked 3lnj«>r Murray for forwarding arms, and responding to calls for assistance. A meeting is convened by the unemployed and others to consider the depressed state of the labor market. The shooner Rviio, from the Islands, lias arrived. Everything is quiet. There is a heavy N. \V. gale here. A boat has been seen at the North Head, bottom upwards, and a man and a bov, who went fishing, are missing. October 1. Denham, a surveyor, lias been arrested, chargad with stealing a pocket-book containing money and securities to the value of LIiOOO fiom a new chum named Singleton, who had been drinking in company with Denham. The detectives have not recovered the missing securities. Denham has been remanded for a week. Arrived—Rotorua, from Sydney, this morning. Siie sails this afternoon for the South. A b":ir was picked up in which Donald M'Kenzie. the youngrs' son of Captain M k Kcnz.o (aged K») and Alex. George (aged a son of tin- !;>;o James George, went linking. No search pa sty has gone out.

PUNKDIN. September 30. At its present rate of progress the Magisterial imjuiry into the Octagon !ire bids f;;ir to occupy r:ear!y the whole of this ( ji t - the p:c.-:v:it, only the cafe i"..u>l> yt/s have heosi examined. T'ne Tii:it i climates that the wo;>l clip of tha: district during th-.! i :;r----n-m Si.taoii v. ili reach about 15,000 bahy. As the Immigration jJariacks, Caversham. to-day, the mimed couples and single men by the Invercargiil were oj'on for engagement. Eiirht married couples found employment at wages ranging from LO2 to LGO per auuum, and fourteen single men at L 45. Three stacks of wheat belonging to Mr. Janie3 M'Donald, of Chatton, were destroyed by fire the other morning. They were insured in the National office for LIOO.

The annual horse parade took phice at the Provincial Yards this afternoon. Several of the exhibits were put up for s'ile during the afternoon. Marquis of Lorne wai sold to Messrs. T. and A. H:u<tie ff>r 245 guineas : Premier, to Mr. ('•. Wallace, of Green Island, for !)8 guineas : and Prince liovai (Baunatyne's) to Mr. Jamw Smith, of Greenfield, for 85 guineas.

CHRIS f CHURCH. September 30. The i.irhs in the cky of Christchurch and district during September was 10" : marriages. 37 : deatlis, 55. In each in.-itai:co ti:ere was a large increase over •:••• .".'iti:*; in.;;;;:, -.i' year. Ki-.;!it■•.•n r'a!irerbiwy-i.;i:il Wfi-t: -s:iiji ! y ti.e l;iir_:ivo:,tna for Welli;;-;.!;). t:a: purchaser being Ml'. M'Lellan, of Jlanawatii. 'J'hey were obtained from six different breeders. A tire broke out this evening in a shed at ilie back of a block r.f buildings in Colombo-street. The place was full of straw and wooden barrels, but the neighbors, after some trouble, succeeded in putting it out with buckets before the brigade arrived. A correspondent writes to the Scar toniirht, complaining that though the tramways were to have been in operation by the Ist of October this year, nothing has yet been done beyond building the terminus, though most of the plant has arrived or is oil the coast.

The follov. ing letter appears in the Star to-night:—"To the Editor. Sir, —I observe that your Wellington correspondent lias stated that I telegraphed to the Government promising my support. Your correspondent has been misinformed. I have not promised support by telegram or otherwise either to the Government or to the Opposition. I understand that there is a further rumor in circulation to the effect that I have telegraphed to the etiect that I should not be in Wellington in time for the division. My presence here to-day on my way North shows that this also is without foundation. You will oblige me by inserting this contradiction, with iny assurance to all and sundry that I shall record my vote in accordance with my recorded opinions as addressed to my constituents.—l am ; &c., Vi.\CE>*r Pyke."