TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 26 November 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. November 25,

Thomas Oldfield Hartley, who was hurt while diving in the baths yesterday, died in the Hospital to-day, He was a storekeeper, aged 24 years. , ; November 26.

The charge of , smuggling preferred against the captain and steward of the ship Wairoa has been further remanded for a week. Croft, who started on a 48. hours' go-as-you-please tournament; had completed 80 miles at noon. Another publican has been fined for selling spirits before; a transfer of hi license was. completed.. DUNEDIN. November 25. Referring to the Australian cricketers, the Star says :—" We are given to understand that, as a result of the recent negotiations, Mr. 0. Halifax, the representative of the team in this Colony, will telegraph on Friday to Mr. Alexander offering the team a lump sum for a New Zealand tour, and freeing them from all risk and expense in connection therewith. The terms are such as will render them at once acceptable to the eleven, and it may therefore be concluded that the visit of the Australians to New Zealand is settled." November 26. Captain John Robertson, signal-master at Port Chalmers, was drowned last night. He fell from the gangway of the ship Dunedin into the water. He was soon picked up, but all efforts to restore consciousness were without avail, The deceased was 60 years of age. His case yesterday occupied the attention of the Harbor Board, which, by 5 to 4, declined to interfere with his appointment by the Government as examiner of masters and mates at this port. The Hou. Mr. Oliver yesterday received deputations from the Education Board re the school buildings vote, and from the Chamber of Commerce re railway tariff. To the former he said that the allocation was dictated by officers of the department. As to votes in future, whilst hp would always, to the extent of his. ability, see Otago given its fair share, he could hold out no hope that the county would vote money, at any rate in the immediate future, as lavishly for education purposes as in the past, "fo the Chamber of Commerce he replied that the Canterbury railways cost L7OO per mile more than those of Otago. The department, in fixing rates, must be guided by outside competition. Special rates between Dunedin and Oamnru and Timarn and C.-iriatchurch w';•!•<* lower than tiiey were formerly. L-7000 were beinc' spent oh the Hillside Workshops, -niti only abso'utely necessary work, which it was impossible to overtake there, was being sent to Christchurch. He refused to receive the deputation of artisans, because they were subordinates of the department, who should complain through the proper channel. Three insolvencies were filed this week, the principal being Joseph Macedon, bookseller, liabilities L 2175, assets.L2l26. The Mosgiel Woollen Factory has declared a dividend of 10 per cent., and carry forward LSOOO. _ . At the City Police Court Gilbert Matheson was fined L 5 for tweaking the nose of Solomon de Beer. He was ordered to enter into recognisances to keep the peace for three months. The parties are leading China.merchants. The assault arose out of slanderoiis statements alleged to have been circulated by de Beer.

CHRISTCHURCH. November 24. The New Zealand Shipping Company' has received cable adviee from London of the arrival in the Channel of the Pareora from Timaru. ' November 26. The Acclimatisation Society expect a consignment of Ligurian bees by the next San Francisco steamer. At the Wesley an District Meeting yesterday, it was reported that there were 45 churches, and 21 other places of worship, 46 Sunday schools, 4799 teachers and scholars, and 11,221 attendants at public worship, in Canterbury. Yesterday, a large number of stock left for the Dunedin Agricultural Exhibition.

AUCKLAND;-. 'Kbveiliber 25.

The demand for Kaino coal is rapidly increasing. Mr. Niccol charters :the Fleetwing *tb take a cargo to Napier, and fie has orders for several hundred tons for Lyttelton to fill. In a case at the Police Court to-day it transpired that a bushman named Nicholas Stanton came-into town to see the circus, and knocked down L 63 in three days in beer. 0 to the illness of a member of Mr. Dei Veaux' family preventing the communication between the two Governors forwhich Sir A. Gordon came to Auckland, as well as other official business, the departure of - his Excellency and the Premier has been postponed. They will leave Auckland, so as to arrive in Wellington on Monday. TIMARU. November 25. The weather to-night is showery, and there is a prospect of the much-needed rain falling. Dr. Chilton, Resident Surgeon of the Hospital, reported to-day that a geld watch and chain, valued at L2O, had been stolen from his room. Detective Kirby this evening arrested a boy named Cullamore, aged ten - years, for stealing the same. The boy confessed his, crime, and said that, after trying without success to pawn the watch, he threw it into a lagoon near the town.

Three boys will be charged at the Police Court tomorrow with throwing stones at the express; train and smashing several windows of carriages. November 26.

The boy who was sent to the hospital for medicine, but took the opportunity to carry off a watch and other jewellery belonging to the surgeon, was sentenced today to three hours' imprisonment and a caning. A dairy farmer named Reddon went out for a drive yesterday but did not return home. His body wasxound on the banks of the Opihi this morning. Death is supposed to have been the result of an accident.