TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8733, 20 February 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Ukited Pbess Association.) Auckland, February 19. Amongst the guests at Government House at present are Colonel the Hon. A. Gardner, brother of the Countess of Onslow, and Mrs Gardner. The Earl aDd Countess of Kintore left for Rotorua to-day. They return on Saturday. No fewer than 10 applications have been received by the trustees of the Elam School of Art from persons who wish to become pupils. By the provisions of the will of the late Dr Elani the benefits of free instruction in art are to be given by preference to those who are poor or crippled, so that they may earn a livelihood by their profession. The Devonport Steam Ferry Company have declared a. dividend of 8 per cent, for the year. The oratorio " Elijah " was produced to-night by the Auckland Choral Society at the Choral Hall, with Mr Bautley in the title-role. The perj formance was a great success, and the hall was densely crowded. | At a meeting of theTailoresses' and Pressera' Union ovsr 100 new members joined. | Wellington, February 19. A report lias reached town that when the train from Wellington to Mnsterton wiia nearing Waingawa bridge to-c!ay, Mrs Elley, with a child in her arms, fell (it jumped from the traiu. She is the wife of John Elley, butcher, of .Ma-terton. No further particulars wore received, but the police Irom Mask'rtou, accompanied by doctors, have gone down tho line. Burgeaut-major Gunn,of the. Royal Engineers, who recently caino out under engagement to_tho Government as instructor iv submnriue mining, is to be permanently stationed in Auckland a« asMstaat to Captuin E. .Powell, who is in charge of tuts Torpedo Corps at that port.

CHitiSTcnniiOit, February 19.

The defalcations of G. X Bowman, solicitor, who left »bout three weeks ago, amount to £GOO. Proceedings for larceny as a bailee will be tuken against biin. The Lytteltmi School Committee, which had a long dispute vl'h the Board of Education about tho appointment of a head master, has recommende'l Thomas Kitchio, B.A, whose name was not among those approve! by the board. Failing him, they recommend B. VV. Just, whoso name was added' to the; list by the board on his protesting against being left out. On Monday Bishop Grimes was presented with an wlilrcss wishing him Uort fpeed aud a safe return from his trip lo fiinglnml; also with a purso of sovereigoß by the lioman Catholic clergy of the diocese. A man named John Kennedy was committed for trial to-day on a charge of stealing £2 in silver from tbt> till of Wallace's Kit-carton Hotel. A young woman named Catherine Hossack was committed for trial on a charge of obtaining C 6 10.i from Elizabeth Alexander, with whom she lived, by fulsu pretences.

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