TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1178, 26 January 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. January ,24. Subscription lists are being opened in all the couutry districts in aid of the Irish Distress Fund. January 25. At St. Paul's Church this morning, the Rev. B. W. Harvey referred in strong terms to Pastor Cliiniquy, and expressed the hope that the congregation would not take part in entertaining him. He said Chiniquy would likely do more harm than good. January 26. At the Supreme Court on Saturday a rule nisi was granted calling upon Mr. W. L. Rees to show cause why he should not pay the sum of L 1177 in his hands belonging to Tareha Moananui. AUCKLAND. January 26. Notice has been served, on behalf of Mr. J. S. Williamson, on Mr. Wade, lessee of the Theatre Royal, prohibiting the performance of C£ Pinafore." Mr. Wade refuses to acknowledge the exclusive right of Mr. Williamson, and has determined to play it until some better authority is shown. The schooner Minnehaha,, owned by Messrs. M'Kenzie and Baglow, has been wrecked in Harvey's Group, South Sea Island, and a valuable cargo lost. The captain and crew were saved. The vessel was insured for L3OOO in a floating policy on the cargo and vessel. A remarkable discovery has been made near Mongonui, near Cape Karakara. On the site of the sandhills blown away by the recent gales were found a great heap of bones, and the remains of a house have been uncovered. The natives know nothing of it, and have no tracings of a settlement or burial place there. It is believed that a further examination will show that they are the remains of a race inhabited by New Zealand prior to the immigration of the Maori. CHRISTCHURCH. January 25. The directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, have declared an interini dividend, at the rate of ten per cent, per annum for the half year ended December 31st, 1879, payable on the 31st insfc. A well-known publican and another person were caught last night by the Government Curator trout fishing in the prohibited portion of the river, which runs through the Domain Gardens. Aninformation has been laid under the Domain Board's Act. , The Sydenham Presbyterian Church congregation at a meeting last night unanimously resolved to give a call to the Rev. Thomas Robinson Cairns, from the Irish Presbyterian Church, Ballina. The trade are complaining of two publicans, who have commenced to employ touts at the railway station to meet the passenger trains. January 26. Messrs. Grant and Foster, the Lincolnshire delegates, arrived on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by the Rev. J. Berry. They were met by the President of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, who will accompany them on their visit to the different districts in Canterbury. They will be present to-day at the competition of reapers and binders for the Agricultural and Pastoral Association's prize. The result of Colonel Scratchley's inspection of Lyttelton harbor is said to be that a recommendation will be made to the Government to have four more big guns erected in addition to the four already here. A run out was made in one of the small steam launches plying the harbor to judge of the adaptability of a torpedo service, and it is probable the Government will be asked to obtain fiveor six vessels for torpedo boats. At the gates of the Catholic Church yesterday over L2OO were collected in aid of the Irish Famine Relief Fund. A meeting was held in the schoolroom after midday Mass, and resolutions were carried promising to give every assistance to the Central Committee appointed recently at a public meeting for raising funds. The ship Pleiades has arrived at Lyttelton from London, after a passage of eighty-six days. She brings 114 passengers, all well. DUNEDIN. January 26. The collection at St. Joseph's Cathedral yesterday, in aid of the Irish Famine Relief Fund, realised L9O. The action of Meldrum v. Proudfoot, in which LIOOO damages are claimed for the death of Mr. Meldrum, a carter, through the tramway accident of October last, is proceeding in the Supreme Court-. Colonel Scratchley went round to White Island, off the Ocean Beach, where he took soundings, and inspected the neighborhood of the Heads, for sites for the batteries. At the City Police Court three milkmen were each fined 10s and costs for selling adulterated milk. Twelve samples were taken, but the analyst only reported against these three. CHARLESTON. January 26. Mr. J. B. Fisher addressed the Buller electors at the Theatre Royal, Charleston, on Saturday evening. The meeting was a very long one, and the reception cordial. Mr. Fisher said there was a Conservative and a Liberal element in New Zealand politics as much as in those of the Old Country; that, however, much the Government and their supporters deprecated the charge they were the Conservatives of the country. They had taken up the Liberal measures, but only to stultify and defeat them. The Government idea was that such draughts of Liberalism as the country insisted upon had better be administered through a Conservative filter. He did not regret accession to power of the present Government. The country required departmental Government and reform, and the present Government were essentially men of detail. They had dealt boldly if not wisely, with finance and administration. They were preferable to Sir Geo. Grey's surroundings. There was a remnant of the Liberal party still true to its principles, and he hoped the utter routing they had suffered would enable them to form a new and more effective combination. Mr. Fisher received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. WANGANUI. January 20. A man named Thos. Trice has disappeared. His clothes were found near the Virginia Lake, and it is feared he has committed suicide. The lake has been dragged, but owing to depth and irregularity of the bottom, without success so far. Trice was formerly landlord of the White Hart Hotel, Marton, but failed, and has been depressed in spirits since. • OPUNAKE. - January 24. The Native Minister, attended by Col. Roberts and Major Noake, left Haweraat 10.15, and arrived at Opunake at 2.15.

;The Stella has just left, after landing seventy-three -Armed Constabulary and twenty tons cargo. Everything indicates an immediate forward movement of the Constabulary. Major Brown is on the Waimate Plains interviewing the people of Tito Kowaru. NORMANBY. January 26. The Native Minister and party arrived at Waihi from Opunake soon after 11 -o'clock, and aSter staying for a time a.t the station, proceeded to Hawera via Normanby. Preparations are being made by the-natives at Waihi station for a redoubt to be immediately erected on the plains, in the Kaipuna stream, it is thought. GRAHAMSTOWN. January 26. Mr. Allison •Morrison,', of the Christchurch College Grammar School, has been unanimously selected from eleven appli'cants as head master of the Thames High School. Mr. Morrison is a B.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, and was highly recommended by Professor Brown, of Christchurch, and many others. Shares in the new tailings venture in Gabriel's Gully, Otago, are about being placed on the market. Mining matters are quiet. Mr. Bull, the officer in charge of the Telegraph Department, will be presented with a testimonial previous to proceeding to Timaru. The sum obtained for the Irish Famine Relief Fund is increasing rapidly.