TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1322, 22 March 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. March 21. Mr Allan M'Donald, M.IT.R. for E.st intends to leave for England by 'xt San Francisco mail, and to reB i-£■„ 'is seat prior to his departure. "Mr W. H. Leviu, member f->r Thorndon, Wellington, ha 3 resigned his scat. In hia address to his constituents ho says : hope that my health would have been sufficiently restored to enable me to fulfil the obligations I owe to yon, but the effects of my severe iliness of last year are such that I find myself physically unequal to tho labor and the late honra of what is likely to be an unusually im- ■ portant and arduous session. After carefol deliberation, I hare coma to the conclusion that I cannot disregard the un-j qualified warning of my medical attendant,' and that it is equally due to yon and myself that I should vacate my seat." | D. C. Mannsell, on tho charge of embezzling Government moneys, has been further remanded for a week. j DUNEDIN. ' March 21. ' In one week 20,000 shares were applied for in Donedin in tho new accident In-; surance company, and 10,000 in Christchurch. In Wellington in one day there were 3000. , ! A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held to-day to consider tho report of the Dock Truat Committee. The Com- j mittee recommended that Mr G. M. Barr, Engineer to the Board, be appointed Engineer to the dock ; also that he be requested to prepare plans and estimates for j a dock 500 feet, also one of 600 feet in length. The report was adopted. March 22. At a meeting of farmers and others, it waa resolved to form a Com Exchange for j Otago. A large committee was appointed. The farmers' meeting broke up without any resolution being arrived at. CHRISTCHURCH. March 22. Miss Champneys, one of tho sufferers by the recent tram accident, has recovered j consciousness, and there is now a probility of her recovery. j Arrived Orowaiti, from Westport; Mawhera, from Dunedin ; lonic, from! Wellington. Sailed Mahinapua, for j Wellington. AUCKLAND. March 21. The Japanese man-of-war Tsukba has arrived from Japan. The Atlanticj recently stranded in a gale at Kara tonga, has been patched up and purchased by Donald and Edinborongb, and will be brought on to Auckland for thorough repairs. The agricultural show was successful so far aa exhibits are concerned, but the weather prevented a good attendance. NEW PLYMOUTH. March 20. The Taranaki Herald's Urnnui correipondent "vritea :—" On Sunday, eight or ten natives came to Pakerauki en route to Parihaka, bat were turned back. A new guard is stationed at the roads, and in future no natives will be allowed to proceed to tho tonga purntn with potatoes for these Te Whitis. Mr ODonoghuo and party (railway survey) have taken the bush, and it is understood they will examine the country in a mimt. NELSON. March 21. At the inquest this afternoon touching ■'ie fire in Bridge-street, tho verdict was jiat there was no evidence to show tho origin of the fire. A rider was added that insurance agents should exercise more caution in accepting risks, especially as it Is at present not their practice to send inspectors previous to accepting liiaka. INYERCARGILL. March 22. A young man named George M'Curdy, while shoeing a horse in A. Dunjops blacksmith's shop, was struck on the head by the animal and hia skull broken. The sufferer was picked up unconscious and removed to the Hospital, where the doctor is now engaged in removing the pieces of bone from the wound. The patient is in a critical state. The boy M'Curdy, who waa injured by a kick from a horse, is not expected to recover, snifering from comminuted fracture of th« aknlL Trepanning was found necessary } and tfac operation was performed by the hospital surgeon (Dr Wardale) assisted by Dr Hanan. Several pieces of bone were removed from tho brain. The sufferer ia unconscious, and his right side paralysed.