TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1211, 4 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. March 3. fliffi Native Minister left for Napier this moraing arrange matters respecting the dispute b,etw,ee# jSutton, M.H.R., and the natives. •'«■.-".. Arrangements are being made fc-r taking on another 100 of the unemployed, to bei engaged in road making. In sentencing a woman named Annie Dryer to four weeks for vagranpy, at the B.M. Court, His Worship gajd she had had three illigitimate children, of'whom two had disappeared in a most mysterious manner. Mr. Gilrush, who was in possession of the Pakuratahi Hotel, which was destroyed by fire last night, is unable to account for the origin of the fire. He loses L3OO worth of furniture, which was uninsured. Tbp Mayor remitted to .Dublin. this afternqoii JL*so in aid of the distress fund. Mrs. Harding, of the IBrunswjck Hotel, for allowing dice to be thrown after midniglit, was lined 40s and costs. .... , March 4. Sphoid fever js . prevalent in some of the city. The deputation appointed at the pe&ent public meeting, interviewed the@Qyflrn_ment re the necessity for pushing oil the

Wellington-Foxton railway. Practically the answer was that the matter will be considered by the Railway Commission. The report has just reached town that a man has been killed and another seriously injured l>y a fall of gravel in a ballast pit at Featherston. The flower show to-day is a great success.' .■'»"'. .'" ■'-'-■ *■ •' '. ...'v..>." ■-*

■"bjnsnsDis.'-.■■:i [■'■.. ['■ > : '••'.' . March; 3." :"• '.During -the monrJi ending 29th Feb-:; i uary,.469 persons- arrived at'PorfrChair :■ mers by sea, and 137 departed, jv A narrow escape from drowning occurred this morning to two fishermen named George Welding and John Drake. From the-statemem\of Weeing, it appears that;they were about-a Smarter of aTm'ile] from Taiaroa Heads fishing. "' At -'about "'s'' o'clock • they noticed. Jhe Kpputai out of the Heads, arid thinking shV was" going-to keep her courseiright r out, they?' did not-attempt to pull the boat in shore';" but suddenly the steamer ported her helm;: and her. engines! .were stopped. ■ Before they-could pull the boat clear'the steamer. had" struck her broadside, cutting her through to the keel, and precipitating both of the men into the water. Fortunately Drake managed to get bold of the fender hanging at the sponson, and caught hold of his companion just before he got under the paddle wheel. The men were taken on board, and the boat made fast astern, the Koputai bringing them up to Port Chalmers. March 4. The Dunedin Presbytery has appointed a thanksgiving day for. the bountiful harvest. Pastor Chiniquy challenges the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin to show that the persecuting- laws of the Church of Rome have ever been repealed, and that he is not pledged by-a solemn oath to extirpate all Protestants so soon as he has power to do. 50..... Mr. Coriyers' left to-day'on'a visit of inspection to the West-ooast, ' *; Major-General Dayidspn is inspecting the city Volunteers.. " ; William Mitchell, a child aged 14, was drowned in the Taieri, near the ferry, yesterday while bathing. A younger ,lad •who was with him got frightened and ran away for assistance., At the City Police Court to-day, ;two boys aged 1§ and 14 were sent to the! Industrial School, fop two years for- petty | larceny. Two other boys, charged with escaping from the School, were remanded, i as the .master was absent from town. -

CHRISTCHURCH. March 3. The Senate sat all. day. Most of the business was of an administrative character, and much of it .was transacted in committee. Only five senior scholarships are to be offered this year.: The draft of the annual report was agreed, to, The Committee appointed to report upon the supposed missing examination papers reported to the Senate that the rumqr as to certain examination papers having been lost in transit between Duhedin and Christchurch was without foundation, and originated entirely in a misapprehension on the part of a supervisor. Mr. H. J. Tancred and' 35r, rieptfiF were elected Chancellor and Vice-ChanCßllqr for the next five years. The Customs revenue collected, for the month of February was L 11.795 18s lOd. After agood deal of trouble the tramway rails have been properly adjusted, and on trial to-day the cars ran smoothly enough. Traffic.will start as soon as, Mr. Austin, the Government Engineer, has ma/ie his jnspectjop. Another gage 'of scarlatina has broken out amongst the passengers, now in the quarantine station. ' - ,"' - MarchA Jfc w»» 4efinitoly; dopidod laat evening," at the adjourned meeting of rowing wen, to hold the Heathcote regatta on the 24th March, and LB9 were collected for prices,. A man named Boberts, while loading grain on a railway truck at Methven, bad his foot crushed yesterday between the bags and the side of the truck. He.was brought down to the Christchurch Hospital. A fresh case of scarlatina broke out yesterday in the married, peoples' quarters of the immigrants on Ripa Island. The single women are in excellent health, and will shortly be released from quarantine.

AUCKLAND. . •' ; March" 3. The whale ship James Arnold has arrived at Busspll. , paptain Wilson reports taking 190 barrels of spepm. :§poke the. Horatio, Captain Arnan, with' one small whale since laaving Russell. : It is understood that the fire insurance companies have agreed on a revised tariff, with largely increased rates of premium. The Mayor sent a draft for LllOO by the mail for the Irish Relief Fund. The general "agseinbly of the Presbyterian Church will meet'at Auckland on15th March. ' " The services of Rust, Cattle Inspector, have .been dispensed with, in consequence of civil service reductions. Mr. Lawson,. Superintendent of Constructed Railways, will go south tomorrow. .•'-'..•;• §trong indignation has been aroused by an attempt pf a Mormon elder to kidnap a married woman and. three children yesterday .by the mail steamer. The tarring, and feathering of Elder Sqrensen, who remains, here, was openly threatened. The woman's passage was not 'paid, but was to be paid as sqpji as. the. steamer got outside, : ; Herbert Kneent,' with several aliases, was charged with vagrancy; and with obtaining a; charitable subscription under false pretences,.... 'He was remanded to Dunedin. The Phonographic Company came to grief, and' the phonograph has been pawned. March 4. .Mr. Whitaker's secretary, in reply to a communipa.tiqp, from' th'g yambridge Farmers' Club, stated that, the,.weight pi pror fessional testimony goes' against the existence of pleuro-pneunionia in Auckland. Mr. iKinrocky V.S., commenting on the letter, emphatically reiterates that the disease does exist." : : : Subscription's are still coming in for the Irish Relief FuM,.; '. :k '■ .. A large number of appligatjons arg being' made, fcif, separation orders by married women, and some singular facts have come to light in connection with the recent Mormon scandals. Mrs. Lucky, grifp of a fish hawker, who tried to bolt witft : Elder ■ !J?earge by the "mail steamer, 'says she • was very unhappy af home owing to the harshness of her husband. She appealed to Rearce for advice, and several prayer meetings were held. " Mormons Tecomiiiended her to pray for ggidanee, anfi ftl}egej she saw a vision in th'p night, apd tlje angel told her to go to Utah. Mrs,. Jackson, of Christchurch, widow, three phildpen, aacompanied Uder Pearoe to the Salt Lake, GRAHAMSTOWN, • : ' '- March 4. - The case of Driseolj v, the Norwich Union Insurance Company—a olaim for LSO, part : of. the amount of insurance money—was concluded, after two days' sitting, last night. Judgment was given for the plaintiff. Considerable interest was taken in the case, and the evidence was very conflicting, the agent of the company swearing positively that he had not received a renewal premium, and three witnessps, averring as positively to the contrary. address p/ oounqef qc: cupied 1 nearly four hours. Qther are likely to result from this fine. geaFfet feyer js spreading, There yaa a s*PFfPF fi? % Cpunty Council, wembpra %Mh

other of malpractices re the sale of the balance of iron imported by the Government for a large water-race, and sold by the County. GREYMOtfrlfc - * Inarch 3. A serious accident occurred Hcrday in the Brunner mine. The manager, Mr. Elliottj and a'Tjarpenter-named Broadfoqt, ;were examining thfe mine, when the latter 'held a lighted cah'dle" to ' the ■works- An e&plosronj of jfdupair ensued, 'and,,Both s Elliott aiid Broadroot ..jwere seriously buViied, the\lattej dangerously so. The mine is uninjured. KUMARA. March 3. L 7 expitememtqver, a hew diico^er.y / df, : goTcl; near"the Teremajcau .river, six miles from here. Over 2t)o~meh visited'Stlie grSnnd' "today:" the ,pr,pspectors is sunk on ground belonging to the native reserve, which one of the pariyhas'leaseds. a rush of. miners setting in. "The case" will come before th 6 Warden yto-lmorjow. The prospects Of the party are reported to,.,be very good. TIMARTJ. March 3. In the District Court, before Judge Ward) this morning, the hearing of the riot cases against Jeremiah Kelly, Law-? rence Towers, Patrick O'Shea, Patrick O'Connor, James Watson, John Deinheyj Maurice Moynahan, Thomas O'Driscoll, • and Daniel O'Keefe, were continued. ;Both Mr. Stout, for the defence, and Mr. Duncan, as Crown Prosecutor, addressed the jury at great length. The jury found all the prisoners guilty except O'Keefe, Kelly, and Watson, but recommended them to mercy. Mr. Stout said he would move for a new trial, on the grounds of misdirection, and the accused were remanded till 10 a. m. to-morrow, when the point will be argued, . March 4.; ■'•

In the riot oases an application for; a new trial'on the grounds that irrelevant evidence had been allowed, and the jury misdirected, was refused, but sentence was deferred, pending the result ;of an appeal to the superior Court on the point raised by the deienee, Mr. Stout under-, taking to state a case. The prisoners, six in number, were bound over to appear when required, each in L2OO and two sureties of LIOO.

In the case of Sims, found guilty of larceny, an applicotion for a new trial on the ground that a jury had twice over returned a verdict that there was no felonious intent, whjoh was practically a verdict of not guilty, and that the judge misdirected them in defining what Iconstituted larceny, was refused.