TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 September 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. September 3. The Post to-night states that it is understood that a preliminary sale of land on the Waimate Plains will be opened on the 25th of nest month. The block which is then to be placed in the market contains about 7000 acres of some of the finest land in the Colony. The price has been fixed at L 4 per acre cash, or L 5 on deferred payment, the latter extending over ten years. At least one-third of the block will be strictly set aside for sale on deferred payments only, and several village settlements are to be laid out.

DUNEDINv

September 3.

Mr. Armstrong, late Locomotive Superintendent, was to-night presented with one hundred sovereigns and a complimentary address by Mr. W. Conyers, Commissioner of the Middle Island Railways, on behalf of five hundred railway employes. Another testimonial will probably be presented to Mr. Armstrong by the general public to-night. Mr. Armstrong positively denied that he had ever been afforded an opportunity of rebutting the charges brought against him. He had been condemned unheard. In conclusion, he said he had never, in the whole course of his life, seen such an exhibition of malice, treachery, and untruthfulness as has been displayed in connection with the whole of this miserable business.

The particulars of the scheme for a graduated scale of payment and promotion for Middle Island railway employes has been approved by Mr. Oliver, and made known to the officers of the department. About 150 persons attended the meeting of - railway employes to-night. It was stated that the meeting would have been unanimous in striking against the 10 per cent, reduction as at first proposed. They decided to suspend action until the new scale is generally known, and to ask Christchurch. to do the same. CHRISTCHURCH. September 3. The body of Richardson, who has been missing from the ship Loch Awe for several days past, was found in the harbor to-day. An inquiry into the loss of the ketch Sarah and Mary will be held at the R.M. Court, Lvttelton, on Monday next. September 4

The revised scale of wages of the railway employes, so far as it is made known, gives great dissatisfaction. A feeling in

favor of a general strike seems stronger than ever.

An inquest on the body of Richardson, steward of the Loch Awe, was held this morning, and a verdict returned of £t ]?ound drowned," with a rider that an Act should be passed compelling the use of nets under gangways of vessels while in harbor.

LYTTELTON. September 3. Sailed—Rofcomahana, for Sydney via Auckland. September 4. Sailed—Loch Awe, for London. Arrived— Tararua, from the North. Cleared —Samaratan, 1104 tons, for London. AUCKLAND. September 3. Arrived—Darcy Pratt, brigantine, from Oamaru. H. G. Shepherdson, the man with three wives, charged with threatening M. A. Seaton, was bound over to keep the peace. The charge of bigamy will probably be heard as soon as the necessary witnesses can be procured. The certificates of Shepherdson's several marriages were in Court, and will be produced in evidence at the proper time. His marriage with Lucy Jackson was solemnised in the Parish Church of Bottesford, Leicestershire, England, on March 3rd, 1852; his marriage with Mary M'Guire on June 20th, 1864, at Alexander-street Primitive Methodist Chapel, Auckland, by the Rev. J. Long ; and his third certificate shows that he was married on December 6th, 1879, to Mary Ann Seaton, at the office of the Auckland Registrar. The Frenoh vignerons under M. Larcher find that the land pointed out to* them at Henderson's Mills, for settlement on deferred payment, ia private property, and that the land really granted by the Waste Lands Board is found to be 600 acres in extent, terribly rugged, and a strong argilaceous soil. Deep ravines intersected it in every part, and to add to all this, there was an inpenetrable growth of scrub on it; it was in fact a barren and unreclaimed waste, almost inaccessible, almost useless for vine growing. "Wocks for extensive vinerieshad beencojjptiuoted, timber for houses procured, furniture and, agricultural implements °pl-

lections of vines, fruit - trees, and bushes obtained. They have abandoned tha enterprise, and M. Larcher intends going to America. GRAHAMSTOWN. September 4. At a meeting of the Railway. Committee to-day a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Speight for his action in the matter of the Railway Construction Bill. A soiree will be given to him on Tuesday night in recognition of hi 3 labors. Mr. Ehrenfried, Mayor, will also be entertained in the hall on the same night.