TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3433, 31 December 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON. December 30.

The buoy at the Frenoh Pass hai gone adrift, but has been recovered and moored in a bay about two miles from the Pass. Messrs J. E. FitzGerald and T. H. M'Dongall, two of the examiners of tho essays on the present condition and futuro prospects of tho industries of New Zealand, will commence their task forthwith. The Hon. Mr Larnaoh will not be able to look through any of them until after his return from Australia. "It is expeoted that the result of the competition will bo made known about the end of next month.

It is believed that the Government intend to allow delayed telegrams to bo sent on Sunday nights. Telegrams from Osrterton say that the wind having fallen has removed further danger from bush fires. Deoember 31. At a meeting of the representatives of insurance oompanies yesterday it whs decided to ask the Coroner to hold an inquest on the late fire. The Minister for Publio Works leaves for Auckland to-morrow.

DUNEDIN. Deoember 30. A two day's match between tho Christ- "• church Wanderers and the Phoenix Club was commenced to-day. Tho Wanderers made 120 in the first innings, and the Phoenix 77, tho Wanderers having 65 for four wickets in the Becond innings. Tho Wanderers comprise several of the ibtorprovincial team. CHRISTOHUROH. December 30. At the meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board to-day it was decided to pall the attention of the Government to the in-shore current whioh sets in along tho Ninety-mile Beaoh, and whioh had evidently something to do with causing the stranding of the Hudson. The Board drew the attention of the Government to -

the current twelve months ago, but nothing has seemingly been done in sequence, as it appears that neither the latest oharts nor the New Zealand Pilot mention the current. The harbormaster leaves the service, reoeiving. a month's pay for every year of offioe as compensa*' tion. His duties will be performed by Captain Clark, who will not, however, receive any increase of salary. The tug and pilot staffs will be amalgamated. It is estimated that tho saving effected will be L9OO a year. December 31.

Yesterday evening a boat containing two lads named Gee and Taylor capsized in the Waimakariri River at Kaiapoi. Taylor was drowned, but Gee scrambled out and went home and to bed. About an hour afterwards his father elicited from him that Taylor had fallen into the river. A search was then made and the body found. * •:.,

AUCKLAND. December 30. William Johnston Parker, a stoker for the New Zealand Timber Company, was found dead alongside the engine this morning. His head and body were covered with blood, having been mutilated by the machinery. A man, believed to be A. Buohanan, of Onehunga, was killed, oh the railway at Newmarket station. He fell between the carriage and the platform, and both thighs and his back were broken. Decembers?

Arrived—Arawata, from Fiji. Passengers : Mrs Groundwater, Misseß Moss (2), Marriott, Prince, Baker, Wilson, Mason, Brain, Turner, Anderson, Captain Fisher, Mr and Mrs Dutton, Mr and Miss Phipps, Misses Walker (2) ; and four steerage. At Levuka, Fiji, on the 20th Deoember, a fire destroyed Kraft's new store and Whiteside's store adjoining, with their contents. The Brigade and volunteers etrenously labored to keep the flames from spreading farther. Insurances— Kraft's, L 160; Whitesides, LSOO. The Fiji planters have suffered considerable loss through an immense bush fire that extended to their plantations. ' Long oontinuued drought is ffffeotlng the native food supplies. The oopra crop will be a partial failure, and it is feared that yams will suffer also. A Bix-roomed house was burned this morning. ' It was insured in the Royal office for L2OO.

. BLENHEIM. Deoember 31. A little boy named Fred Biroh, a son of a Blenheim resident, was killed by a fall of 30 feet from the rocka at White's Bay while at a picnic party.