TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 2 September 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FEB FREBB ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON.

September 1. His Excellency leaves Wellington en route for England on Saturday.

The Customs revenue for the month of August amounted to L 18,335 17s 6d. September 2.

The annual meeting of the Racing, Club was held last night. The report that the past §eason hftd bepn gucpessful, the OJub having rpduped tjipir overdraft by ing onp handicapped for the Colony was approved of, but the details were left for future arrangements. The stewards meet on Wednesday next to consider the advisableness of holding a spring meeting. DTJNEDIN. Tfte -tlfq/a ifr. < Morris, Oaptain and' Mr. Horace Bastings are the only probable candidate# for thp Waikaia seat in Parliaand tyiafi |fr,Bastings will probably

be universally Roxburgh district. - The oldest settlers on thegoldfields state that the present winter has been the finest thejrhave experienced. There was a slight fall of snow at Naseby'yesterday, bat the miners are afraid that?they will not have sufficient water to enable them to carry on operations daring the summer months^ Mr.- George Cutts arrived here yesterday by the Rotomahana, with the Victorian horse King of Clubs, purchased by Mm for the Middle Park Stud Company, Christchurch. The horse is in good condition, although the passage from the Bluff to Port Chalmers was very rough. September 2. Robert M'Quaid and William Fielding have been committed for trial for robbery from the person. Mr. Borrie, landing waiter here, has been promoted to the Collectorship of Customs at Invercargill. CHRISTCHURCH. September 2. Dr. Hacon, the recently appointed Medical Superintendent of the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, arrived by the Arawata yesterday, Richardson, the steward of the Loch Awe, has been missing since Sunday. He is believed to be drowned. The prospectus of a company to construct a railway from the Christohurch main line to Sumner will be issued in a few days. At a meeting of the local Council of the New Zealand Rifle Association last night, great dissatisfaction was expressed at the management of the Association's affairs by the central Council, and it was stated that no subscriptions are likely to be obtained here towards the expenses of the proposed prize meeting in M^r^h, A meeting will be held at Lyttelton on Monday ta take final steps for the establishment of a corps of the Naval Reserve. AUCKLAND. September 1. Mr. Blanchard, Inspector of the Colonial Bank, died at the Northern Club, of bronchitis, He has a brother and sister at Ohrißtohuroh. September 2. At the police court this morning, Hulm, proprietor of the Provincial Hotel, was charged with allowing gambling in his licensed house. Inspector Pardy said that the police had determined to put a stop to gambling in hotels, which already had caused the ruin of a number of young men in Auckland. NEW PLYMOUTH. September 1, It is reported that the Armed Constabulary canip is to move near Parihaka. TIMARU. September 1. At the quarterly sessions of the District Court to-day, Eugene Ford was sentenced to six months for assault. He presented a revolver in a man's face and threatened to shoot if not given some tea—a mild case of sticking up. Q. E. Jones was acquitted of thp charge of false pretences, jjp had obtained a quantity of jewellery on the strength of representations that he had a fortune left him. The Crown Prosecutor said he could not prove his story untrue, and declined to proceed with the case. Charles Massey, charged with causing bodily harm by driving, was found guilty. Sentence was reserved. White driving a dray, he ran foul of a perambulator, and broke the leg of a young woman in charge of it.

The Board of Education to-day proposed to institute aided schools in thinly peopled districts, giving amount of capitation grant due on attendance in each case. Several applications are in for new schools, but the Board has no funds.