TELEGRAMES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5467, 27 August 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMES.

— —♦ __ ■.; (Pcs Pbkss Association Special Wibe.) • , Auckland,"August 26th.: •; . MissFidler's introductory lecture on cookery was attended by 600 ladies. ■: .-.-.■•'■.•. -,... Lamb's Ngaruawahia flour-mill was burnt down... The "origin of the'fire is notknbwn. - The insurances are-^ehgine. and house, L2IOO inthe New Zoaland Company j reinsured for; LISOO. ■.'..'.*...- -' ;:* ':..:.:■; i ""/"V~V "X '*. ■-— ■-W-Asaixta, August 2Sth.! ..' A fire destroyed a dwelling-house-belongirig to Mr,-Armstrong at Durietown. It was insured in the Norwich Union Company forL 450, and the furniture in the Liverpool Corn-' pany for Ll5O. .*-.tv*> '-ZZ ■■•■. i „, „ „ Wellington, August 26th. I The Now Zealand Punch will make its first appearance oh September 3rd. " ■ ■ j ~ -The Chronicle says, it is understood Lthat an action -for- libel is pending against -the New. Zealand Times, at the instance of Mr William Hutchison, mayor of Wellington, for publishing an alleged alander in an article on Saturday last. , * The. directors of thedTXrville Wand Copper Company have received the following letter from their manager, Mr Owen, at Newcastle: —" The last shipment of ore bas been smelted, the assay result beins 20J per cent. Mr Vale, manager of, the English and Australian Smelting Works, considers thia very satisfactory, the highest percentage of the celebrated Ballade mine, New Caledonia, being only 17 per cent., and considered rich. From the specimens I have shown Mr Vale having a trace of yellow ore," he is confident we have not far to sink to come upon the main lode." Some atone broken off. a reef at Masterton when tested by the Government Analyst yielded 2dwt of gold and silver to the ton. The charge agaiast John Brown,,carpenter of the sbip Halcione, for stabbing George1* Landali, the boatswain of the same vessel, has been further adjourned until- Saturday.' I VV; AtthePolice'CourtJohn Joseph Walsh, who until: recently had been secretary of the Hibernian. .*Australasian CatholioV Benefit Society, waa committed for trial on three charges of appropriating tho sum of L 2296, the , property of the Society. ,' , . ■• ' Hokitika, August 2fith.! A large and important preliminary meeting was held in the Town Hall today for the purpose of. insisting on the construction of tho railw ay between ;the East and West Coaats. : The Mayor was in the chair. The Hon. Mr Bonar 'made a speech" pointing out the advantages of constructing1 the line. A quantity of new and valuable statistical information was placed at the disposal of the meeting by a number of merchants and others present, showing • that this railway would be as payable a line as I any in the Colony; while the West Coant poa- i lessed an asset in the unsold Crown lands that of itself would more than pay tbe cost of the 1 railway. It was stated roughly that there were ' 100,000 acres of land between the Teremakau and Grey Rivers alone, which, if a railway was 1 made, would easily realise from L 4 to L 5 per i acre—or a sum more.*than Sufficient to defray the whole oost of thei line. Carefully-prepared < estimates were given, showing traffic amounting J to ■ several thousand pounds per annnin altogether omitted or under -estimated in Mr 3 Blair's report*. Energetic action to get railway > made, was determined bn, and it waa resolved « to ask Greymouth, Kumara, Christchurch, arid i other towns interested to co-operate earnestly. A strong league was formed to insist on having ( the work carried but. 1 •.'!,'; ■".;'.; * Chmstohukoh, August26th.j a ;* A telegram from Dunediu haa Men published t here regarding Mr Conyers' removal which "is c calculated to produce a wrong impression. Sir George never said Mr Conyers was not going 1 to be moved to Dunedin, but that at present « nothing had been determined in the matter. * He said the matter was entirely out of Hia J province, and all he knew was that Mr Macali- .» drew was considering the question.'but had ns 'o yet arrived at no determination. Hia^mann-fr, however, certainly led his hearers to infer that * Mr Conyers would be moved as already stated, i Some alterations have been made in the * Canterbury football team to play against Wei- « lißgton on Thursday, which will greatly ° strengthen it, and give the Northern men aU 5 their work to do. r ——"—~—T- '*. ■■'■*'* '■mi. «.«.'«'*» TntAKir, August26th.) S •me Pinafore" company concluded a siiccessful season here last night. .. • _ c ~ ~.„ ~ INVEBOABOILL, AugUßt 26th. ' Mr M'Culloch, R.M., ruled today that ° No., 10 of the Railway Bye-laws, whioh pro- J vxdea that a pasienger entering,a train without a ticket shall pay the full fare from the station P from which the train originally started, was bad, owing tb its utter unreasonableness. a' A Licensed Victuallers' Association has been* v Formed here. r< —• —, -.'"■ IS ~ SPEOIAL TELEGRAM. V *| (»BOU OUB OWN COBBBSPONDENT.) '.'■ ■■ \ °j '.'*.*, Roxbuboh, August 26th.1 m At Bengerburn yesterday Mr E. Tubman, of Uoa Flat, and Mr Herbert, of Ardmore Station; ivers nominated for James Riding.