TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10562, 8 January 1896, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Fuess Association.) Auckland, January 7. Alley has been cbramitttd fnr fcs4l on a change of breaking oat of the Auckland lock-up. He is to be brought before the vipitiag jusfcseea first for escaping from Mount Eden Gaol before being charged with tha offence at the Police Court. Ha statts (hit if he got the chance ha woulfl riever Jeiive th.c jaol Aye feist foremost. Hii Ekceilenby Lord GlaSgbrt ihd suite visited Corom»ride! to-day. The Governor ■was met on the wharf by the mfeinbers of the county council; who presented him with an address of welcome. Th'; Vice-regal party were thou conducted to tiie Kapobga mih«, bsirig the oldest in New Zealand; aiid , shown over the machiiierj. Liidits Augusta and Dorothy Boyle were rigged but in oilskins and went down the shaft to t£s 800 it level, conducted by Captain Argall; {Joid in its various stages of extraction wer« shown. They then procosded to the fanioaa Hauraki rritne'i and Were fJiowii sbine rnaj;iiificent specimens, so'm? fef which Captain Hbdge pres*biied to his Erbol!eiicy. The .party^returned to the Hinemoi, expressing thsmseWes delighted with theit trip. They proceed to tlie Barrier to-night. ~..., , ~'

. WEiiiNGTONj January 7. The Hon. E, Blake left by this morning's train for Auckland and Sydney. Passages have bsen booked in libe Tasmania, frani Auckland fed Sydney, for He Bkka, Sir Brtice Butiiside, and Rir Bdrehell; *H of whom have been couaected with the Midland Railway arbitration. Mr Biake intends leaving Melbourne fcir London on the 27th iiisfc. , ! At a meeting oE ishnreriolders andl creditors 'bf the Longbofb Slaaghfering and Freezing Company ths represßntatire. of the offioial liquidator s'tatSed that after all the capitil i?ai called up creditors would receive about ,8s iti tho pbHtid, and Bharehoiders npthibg. It trtis decided to offer the whble worts and prbpefty of the compsny, for sale,... , The resignation .bf .Dr..Ewarb, a.9 medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital laid before the trustees of the institution ta-day., It was decided to make aa effort td induce Dr,B<""irt to remaih by offering Kind an increase of sai»ry .ihd thfe iise of the residence which it is: proposed to, build for the medical Buperintendeat at a cost not csbesdiDg £800. At the annual meeting. of the Qear Meat Compaby to-night the dividend nt trie rate of 10 per cant, per annum was carried. . Dr. Newman, Messrs H. Beinchamp, and N. Reid were re-elected directors.

NBtsoN, Jaririary 7., A heavy thunderstorm is raging here this GvoniDg. Christchukch, January, 7; It is estimated that the north-west gole on Saturday »Dd iHoriday reduced the promieed yield of oata in the uorth of Cantorbnry by fully 10 bushels per acre. , isvKiicApGiix, January 7. At the Polioe Court, John Lawson, a young man, wos charged with having attempted to shoot himselfj and was remanded. Another yoarig man, ,J»mes Spence, who was before tlio Safareme Court, Dunedin, at ImI; sittings for Ktteinptiid Suicide, waa charged with stealing a horse and remanded.