TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5423, 7 July 1879, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb Pbxss Association Special Wirz.)

Auckland, July sth; ' At the Waikato Council meeting, plans and estimates were submitted of a proposal for a railway from Cambridge to the junction with the Thames line, three milts east of Hamilton; length, li mile j cost L2BOOThe Otranty.Council ia in financial.difficultlea, owing to the Act being hung up. The Government urge them to bring the Act into operation. Tbi» propeial the Council decline, but will solicit Government for Ll6O to pay overdue liabilities.

Intelligence has been received that Father Harold haa declined the Catholic Bishopric of Auckland; and a Jesuit, tho Very Rev. Father Stain, Vic»r-Apostolic of Bengal, is now nominated. * ..■•.-.,■!.

4' It is rumoured that the three contractors have lojt XiIOOO apiece, over the abortive enterprise of raiding the s.a. Taupo. The brigantiue Prairie, outward from Whangaraa to Hobait Town, got on shore outside the Heads on Monday night, and is badly damaged. A survey baa been held, and the vessel will be towed to Auckland next week for repairs., ...■'/ . A meeting of the Auckland Teachers' Association was held to conaider a circular received from the Wellington Association, enclosing the following matters foi the consideration ot the Auckland Association, and requesting its cooperation in regard to thtm, viz.•':—(1.) The desirability, of getting a clause inserted in the fy Education Act empowering : the. Minister of ■v Education to appoint a ConrO of Appeal for the inve»tigatioo of harsh decisions of the Boards and their officer.). (2.) The extent of power of" local committeea in the appointment>nd dismissal of teachers.- "(3.) To'take measures sgaiDst the Bubstantiation of the word "insubordination " for " groia misbebaviour," in; clause 7of the present Act. Consideration was postponed till next Saturday.

■■:.-.. Napier, July 6th.' A chemist named Carl Studman, at Norso•wood, h»s been' 'declared by a NorsewOod jury to have caused' the death' of hi Scandinavian woman, whom he attended in her confinement, by unskilful treatment. A wtrrant has beon i'asned for Studmim'B _ arie it: " .••■•••'•

'- ■ Weliingtok, July sfch. The Hinemoa leaves for Manukau to-mor-row to bring down the Auckland members. ProfeSo- Baldwin had a private seanca with Mj Sheohan and Mr Jas. Mackay yesterday. He zeplied Batisiactoriiy to a question put in writ ing in Maori .by Mr Mackay addressed to a defunct Native chief; • ' '■;:'•'

•-;;. ~ " July6th. A meeting of ironworker's was held last evening, when ttie hands agreed to continue work at a alight reduction. The reductions proposed by the masters were modified. Where the masters proposed a reduction of Is Gd the men agreed to la, aud in cases where Is was proposed it was reduced by half.

Gbahamstown, Julyoih. The County Council intend to enforce the payment of LUOO interest due on LGO.OOO by the mining companies. If it is not paid in September they will take possession of the pumps, and arrange to sot them going by meani of water as a motive power. '

CHRIBTOHOBCH, July sth. The returns of the Canterbury Gaol department shows, on the 30th June, % prisoners in JLyttelton, 42 in Addington, and 24 in Timaru. The fl-ciU washed hundreds of young trout out of the Cuit, and number* from three to six inches in length, were left dead on the bank. The Sydenham/Borough is forming a fire 'brigade and hook-tmd-ladder company. The Liverpool and London, Insurance Company are lending.tL em a hand-engine until the proposed water-uupply toteme has been perfected. The sitting of the District Court, bo long postponed, has been definitely fixed for July 21st. ■■■''„■ * The Railway Era Brigade have received new -uniforms and a, number "of appliances. A powerful railway fire ■ engine has been thoroughly overhauled, and the Brigade, with weekly practices, is now in a very efficient state.

Since the floods have scoured out the bed of the Waiiiakariri, the pecp!e ia the Kaiapoi district have great hopes oi the shipping trade being resumed in the old port. A number of influential gentlemen are moving iv the matter of forming a company to open np trade in. produce, cattle, and sheep with Wellington. A meeting Uto be held next week to discus the qusttion. ■ A farmer living ou the beach near the mouth of the Rakaia Rivtr reported on Tuesday that he saw a large quantity of wreckage, which had the apneamnca of spars and broken pieces of the hull of a vessel, floating outside the breakers in the direction of the Peninsula. A heavy four-oared white boat was amongst it. With the atßislance of a line he got the boat ashore. Large quantities of onions were alio -floating among the wreckage. Tha suburb of Sydenham experienced a new «ea«aticn Ibis moruirjg. Some workmen were dtifiDg pipes for an artesian well, and had reached » depth of from SO to 60 feet between the upper and lower water strata, when a sudden quiokening in rate of descent of pips led the men to believe that avtin of water bad been reached. The usual mear.s for securing a flow were adopted, and for a few minutes water flowed from the top of the pipe; then the water swirled down the pipe, and a rush of gas came Tip. On ignition this gave aflame three feet high, fluctuating on account of the partial check ezercisad by ths water at or near the bottom of the pipe. The gas 1b evidently methylio hydride, or marsh gas, and is probably engendered in a peaty stratum. Ths owner of the section has fixed a tap and burner on the top of tbli novel artesian, and will probably make his well profitable for a time.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM. (JROK OUK OWM OOKBISTOHDKNT.) Nsisoh, July 6th. Mr Hurley gave notice of .motion at the City Council last night m Mowb.—"That this Council 00-op«rate with the County Council in

! petitioning the General Government to bring in a bill compelling clubs, where spirituous liquors are supplied, to pay a liosnse the same as hotels." Councillor Crocs is the seconder of the motion.