TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 22 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(j?BR PRJSSS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. October 21. At the Magistrate's Court .this morning, judgment' was given in the long pending p£*s<3 Gilbert v. Geddes. The action was brought under the pine -4rt§ Cjopjpighj; Apt by Mr! Dillon, the New of the Dramatic Aufhqrs' Society,, tq recover the penalties for the unlicensed production at Christ gburph by defendant of " Pygmalion and Galatea," _ was given with costs for.plaintiff for XA. being double the fee. The following appointments were gazetted : Charles Dudley Robert .Ward, barrister, District Judge for the. district of Otago Goldfields, and Western Otago, from Ist prox., vice G. W. Harvey ; Lowther Broad, barrister, to be District Judge for the , district of Westland, vice T. S. Weston ; I Francis Dart Canton, barrister, to be (Deputy District Judge of the District Court of Auckland. DUNEDIN. Qctober 22. Five declarations of insolvency are filed this week:. Daniel White, hotelkeeper, sets down his liabilities at L2BIB, and his assets at L 3057Letters received here by the mail state that Captain Babot, late of the has been appointed -tp the command 0 f Money steamer Durham. CHRISTCHURCH. October 21. The Hospital enquiry into the alleged misreportirig of typhoid fever cases at Christchurch Hospital has suddenly assumed a new phase. Dr. Skae has intimated that he cannot proceed to take evidence unless the local Board of Health will pay LSO for witness's expenses. At a special meeting of the Board to-day, it was urged that the enquiry really was part of the duty of the Central Board of Health, in which case the Government were responsible for the costs. It was decided to confer with Dr. Skae, and request him, if he could-not pay witnesses, to communicate with the Government. October 22. Inspector Buckley, who was stationed at Kaiapoij has been removed to Invercargijl. 4- trout ib in weight was caught in the river Avon yesterday.

An inquest on Pearce, who was accidentally shot by boys, will take place this afternoon. i

AUCKLAND, ' Qcfcqber 2\, The whole of the spirits seized by the Customs officers at Whangatata was to-day declared forfeited and condemned (no claimant having appeared), and will bp sold by auction, A quantity of lime juice and champagne was also condemned as alcoholic. The Kaipara Steamship Company dispose of the s.s. Tongaririo, Kenna, and Gemini, belonging their fleet, on the 28th inst, ~ The Cambridge Agricultural Show took place to-day. The father was unfavorable, and there were only half of last year's exhibits. M'Lean and Company and Fautham's magnificent cattle were absent. A goodly number of settlers and Maqris were present. (xovernment have resolved to open 50,000 acres of land at Te Aroha as a gold-mining district, under the Act of 1873. Mr. Wliitaker has arranged with Mr.' Wilkinson, Agent at the Thames, to conclude an agreement with the natives for .miningfon. their reserves. It is expected that an arrangement will be complete in aboyt Several discoveries of auriferous 5 quartz have been made and claims already pegged off. The j new goldfield acijoins the land Bold to Messw. Grant and Foster. At the Diocesan Synod resolutions were carried on the education question. The first stated that the Syn6d did not desire a return to denominational education ; the second declared that the' Synod could not endorse the recommendation of the General Synod for granjg in aid of schools I established by any.religipus denomination, proyifled attendance and; instruction shall come up tp the standard retired by Government; the thirfl, repomniending that the Government :fbe petitioned to grant an amended Eduction Bill, with such. facilities for religious teaching as are given by the New South Wales Aot, |; 7 October 22The Bank of New 2|aland half-yearly meeting took place to-toy. The report stales that the net pr&flts to the 30ch September, after full a§propriationa for all debts, bad or doubffiil, and the usual reduction on account .ft bank premises and furniture, are L 76,152. The balanoe from - the half year eifded 81st March, -1880,? being L 22,185, the total amount

. ;«':ulable for division- is L 98,337. The I foilo w intr appropriations are . jecom- | mended A dividend of 10 per cent, per anfuurij L 50,000, and a bonus of 5s per share (equal to 5 per cent, -per annum), L25,00d. The balance (L2'2,337) to be carried forward to profit and loss new account". • NEW PLYMOUTH. October 2i. At the District Court to-day, Judge Shaw referred in feeling terms to the recent sudden death of Judge Mansford. Mr. Halse, on behalf of the bar generally, expressed regtet at the news of his death.