TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. October JO. The following is a list of the inspectors of the police force, together with the dates of their appointment, to whom notipe has been sent offering the alternative either of submitting to a reduction or leaving the service with the usual compensation allowance : —lnspector Moore, Ist July, 1873; Inspector Thompson, Ist July, 1873 ; Inspector Fox, Ist July, 1573 ; Inspector Mallard, 23rd January, 1875 ; Inspector Kiely, 7th May, 1875; Inspector Feast, 28th June, .1875. There were five other inspectors whose names were originally mentioned for reduction, but who will not be interfered with. The following is a list of those officers',-.with their dates of appointment:— Inspector Pender, 11th May, 1864; Inspector Buckley, 4.st July, 186(5; Inspector Scully, 2nd December, I§6s; Inspector Emerson, Ist July, 1868; Inspector Hickson, 20th August, 1872. The following is a list of sub-inspectors marked for reduction, with their respective dates of appointments : Sub-Inspector Kenny, 9th June, 1869 : Sq.brlnspectof Buljen, March, 1870; Sub-Inspector O'Donngll, 10th September, 1872 ; Sub-Inspector Goodall, 18th June, 1373; Sub-Inspector Pardy, 17th November, 1875; SubInspector Smith, Ist May, 1877:

It is understood that the West Coast Commissioners, Sir Win. Fox and Sir ■Dillon Bell, will meet Ministers about the end of the month to confer with them on West Coast matters.

Tho Judicature Commissioners will meet in January to draft a Bill to give effect to the conclusions at which they have arrived: The Post states that it is informed that during the last financial year the Government Insurance Department issued 2274 policies for 1/72,524. The accumulated funda now roach L4(i0,000, and the annual income is LI4?,GOQ. department has nearly 12,C00 polices in force, assuring over four millions sterling, and has paid in claims during the ten years of its existence L 140,000. DUNEDIN. Octobor 18. The Supremo Court will be occupied tho wholo day with M'Kay v. Connor, contractors, in which L4OOO is claimed for alleged libel in lettgrs written by Connop to one Stevens hi Wcstprn Ausr tralia. Tho parties wore partners in tho [building of the Port Chalmers graving dock. ' At tho City Court John Gately was committed for trial for robbery, ; CHRISTCHURCH. October IS. [ A sailor named Fisher fell off the train when entering tho Lyttelton tunnel on Saturday, and very narrowly eataped

! death. He was severely cut about the head. . A number of pupil teachers are opposing the reduction of salaries on the ground that they are articled for a given period at a given rate of pay. The weather continues very favorable to agricultural operations. GREYMOUTIT. October 17. The scraping of the top plates from the Golden Fleece Quartz Mining Company, Reefton, showed, as the result of five days' crushing, 374 ozs. amalgam. There are 3 feet of stone in the rise above No. 4 level, which looks well for the stone going to the surface.