Telegrams

Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 14

Telegrams

INTERPRO> T INCIAL ITEMS.

Wellington, August 9th. The Publio Works Statement will be delivered to-morrow night. The following vessels have arrived at London: — From Melbourne — Essex, Cardigan Castle, Loch Long. From Sydney — Buckly Castle, Duke of Sutherland. From Wellington — Adamant, Rakaia. From Dunedin — Hurnnui, Waitara. From Lyttelton — May Queen.

A second theatre was opened last night at Te Aro Flat by Tom Margetts and company. Tho house was crowded.

August 10th. The Government are calling for tenders for a four-weekly steam service between Fiji and Port Chalmtra, by way of Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton, for a period of two years, the service to commence about sth October next.

August 13tb. The Australia did not call at Honolulu because the Government of the Sandwich Islands failed to make good their promise to pay the subsidy for the advantages of the steamer calling there twioe a mouth. The omission on the voyage was in accordance with permission granted to the contractor provisionally in November by the New South Wales and New Zealand Governments.

August 14th. Senior Constable Greea returned per Easby from Sydney, whither he had been sent to identify a man apprehended by the Sydney police on suspicion that be was Cunningham, accused of the Ohau murder. Green says the man is not Cunningham. Advantage will be taken of the Supreme Court Judge's sitting in banco to-morrow, when all the members of the legal profession will assemble, and formally disclaim any participation or sympathy with the action now being taken by Mr G. E. Barton against their Honours Chief Justice Prendergant and Justice Richmond. -

Auckland, August 10th. It was Messrs Fisher and Co., of Auckland, who sent the sheep to Sydney psr Rotorua. The authorities refnsed to let them land, as the Legislature absolutely prohibits the importation of stock. The meeting convened by the Trade and Labour Council passed resolutions in favour of Government getting material for railways manufactured in the Colony.

A public meeting to consider the Education Bill passed resolutions in favour of the religious clauses being excepted. Tha meeting considered that State education should be strictly secular, aud that the portions of the Bill relating to Bible reading and prayer should be erased.

August 13th.

It 13 reported that the Pacific Mail Company propose to take another utaamer off the service, and run with three boats only. The railway was opened to Ngaruawhia to-day. A large number of persons went by the first train.

August 14th. The Ironworkers' Committee is preparing a memorial in support of the demand uiade by the Southern artisans that Government should support local industries. William Cross, husband of Mra Cross, who died from being mysteriously poisoned three months a^o, is missing. His hat and stick were found close to the batik of the Tamaki river. It is supposed that he committed suicide through remorse, arisiog from hia bad treatment of his wife.

Alfred Durham has bsen missing since Taeaday. Hia wife received a letter eaying, by the time she received it, he would htve blown his brains out. Durham wa3 in difficulties, and had been drinking hard. The polics are investigating the matter.

August 16rh. The Ex-Governor's yacht iilanche has arrived from the Islands, and is therefore not the vessel supposed to be wrecked at the North Cape.

The football team were driven into town in a brake. There is a strong team to oppose them.

A man named Durham, who sent a letter to hia wife threatening suicide, was discovered all right. The Licensed Victuallers have passed a reeolution "that this meeting protests against the paaning of the Local Option Bill, it being tyrannous, obnoxious, and contrary to the priheiplis of Free Trade, and that the thanks of tt-e Association are due to Dr Wallis for his independent action in endeavouring to do justly to both Licensed Victuallers and Good Templars." The topsail nchooner Hinemoa, which left Auckland for the Samoa Mission, is feared to be a wreck. The hull was insured in tho Zealand Office for £1200, and the cargo in the Victoria for £700, and Batavia, £500. The vessel ia owned by Messrs Ross, D. H. M'Kenzie, and Captain Fairchild, and was commanded by Captain Ross. The Trade and Labour Council have adopted a petition to Parliament stating that many good mechanics are leaving the Colony through want of employment ; that material for railwajs should bo manufactured here wherever practicable. . Samoa news state that the rumoured annexation 1o the Uufted States ia untrue. — The natives are lighting. Business is stagnant.

Ckristchurch, August 11th. The list of unemployed yeaterday morning comprised 1 J 0 married and 50 single men. The greater porti-m of the3e have been taken on ab the railway and at the Government domain. Ofchora will be sent up-country. The Operative, Bootmakers' Union was

broken up last night, and the funda were divided.

August 13tb.

The Licensed Victuallers o£ Caristohurch and Timaru have combined in opposition to Mr Fox's Local Option BUI, and decided to send a deputation to Wellington.

August 15th.

Applications for shares in the Union Insurance Company have been immense this week.

The unemployed agitation is now over. 150 men h&ve been taken oa to various Public Boards, and work offered to others at 5a per day, bat many refuse, as being too low. The land sales yesterday realised £25,674.

Nelson, August 9th.

At a meeting of the Education Board held to consider the new Bill, resolutions to the following effect were unanimously passed :—: — General approval of the Bill, and of the recommendation of Mr Curtia'a proposed amendments re sided schools ; Bible reading in schools to be optional with the local Committees instead of compulsory ; the courso of instruction to be modified by making optional the teaching of elementary mechanics, drawing, and vocal music ; the assistance by way of subsidy of private educational enterprise in remote districts ; the appointment of teachers to be vested ia local Committees ; the erectioa of school buildings to be left to the Boards.

August 13th,

A great demonstration took place this afternoon in connection with the rescus of the Queen Bee's passengers. The Volunteers, and seamen and marine 3of H.M.S. Sappho, paraded in Trafalgar Squara, at foot of Church Hill, on which at least 2000 people assembled. The Bishop of Nelson, on behalf of the community, addressed them in complimentary terms on the readiness to turn out to search for the missing people, and then handed the representatives of the different crews, and to the individuals who had gone out in their own boats, the resolu--tiona passed at the Wreck Relief Committee, expressive of the thanks of the community for the services tbey had rendered. The whole ceremony passed off most successfully. Subscriptions are being raised to aid those who lost their all. Ib is calculated' that at least £500 will be required. August 15th. The Union Insurance List closed here with applications for 14,500 shares.

The Queen Bee enquiry takes placß tomorrow.

Timarxj, August 9th. At the ine3ting of the Harbour Board today, a plan of a breakwater by Messrs Allan and SLumble3 was submitted, more feasible than Sir J. Coode's. The Board adjourned for them to furnish a detail drawing, prior to the Board forwarding them to the Government for submission to a Commission. The starting point is south of Timaru landing service, tue breakwater then goes in a. south-easterly direction, and affords harborage for 40 or 50 vessels. Reclaims 16 acres. 1000 yards long by 35 feet broad, and goes 400 yards in a. straight line. This makes a curve towaida the Government landing service. Its production causes > excitement here.

Oamaru, August 9 th. A meeting of the Waitaki County Council held to-day, resolved to request the Hon«. A. Campbell to bring under the notice of the Government the great necessity which exists for bridgiug the Marewhenua River at Duntroon, also that he be requested to urge upon the Government to extend the telegraph line up the Marewhenua Valley to Duntroon.

Hokitika, August BSh. The Bank of New South Wales at Kumara was stuck up at 4 o'clock this morning. Mr Hogg and Mr Brown were sleeping in the Bank at the time. Mr Hogg heard a noise and saw a man going out of the Bank door and fired a revolver afc him, but the man escaped, although he dropped most of the booty— bstween £3000 and £4000— mostly gold dust. Blood was found oa the gold bag. About £400 in votes is missing. Tke burglar must have secreted himself in the Bank during the evening, when the Bank is open for gold- buying. He had been under the bed, and got the keyß from the agent's clothes during the night to open the safe. He would have gob away with the booty bus for Hogg's bullet.

The reduction in the Police pay on the diggings is very unwise, as the criminal classes will have a better chance, as good men will leave the Force.

August 13th. Mr 3 Andrews, mothsr of the two children who died from being burnt ia tha lace fire, died today in the Hospital, from burns, and the shock to the system.

Riverton, Angusb llth. A petition signed by the Riverton Town Council, the Wallace County Council, and the Western District Farmers' Club, and the Bettlera generally, urging on the Government the pressing necessity of having the Riverton and Otautau railway completed, has been forwarded to Wellington.

.New Plymouth, August 13th.

Tue Fiery Cross, from Auckland, arrived at Waitara on Saturday. She had a stormy wassage. When off Sugar Loaves, on the 7th, two of the hands went to fasten the jib, when the vessel, giving a heavy plunge, one of them, named James Baker, was thrown into the water. A boat was lowered, but at the time a heavy sea struck the vessel, staving in the boat's planks, rendering her useless. Captain Watson did all he could, but failed in rescuing the man.

Mertqn, August 14th.

Tha barquo Robina Dunlop, bound to Batavia from Wellington, has become a total wreck off tho mouth of the Turr.kina river. Her crew numbering 14 men are saved.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)

Reefton, August 13th.

At the Iteefton Exchange Rooms, on Saturday last, Messrs W. M'Lean and Co. held an extensive sale of mining stock. About 0000 scrip were offered, and all quitted al> satisfactory prices. Several lots went to Dunedin buyers. Keep-il-Dark shares, 13s 9. d to 14s 3d,

Auckland, August Bth. Th.9 artizena' meeting in support- of the Dunedin movement for local manufacture of railway plant was badly managed, but a Committee was appointed, and further demonstrations are in contemplation.

Oamaktx, August 13th. Yesterday (Sunday) morning three boys playing at the edge of the pool of stagnant, water adjoining the north side of Itchen street, opposite Dr Garland's, found the : body of a woman in the water, which, hav-' ing been removed by the Police, was after- 1 wards identified as that of a woman named Tracey, the wife of Thomas Tracey. There, is a steep bank from the street to the pool, at the spot where the body was found, and at the inquest, which was held to-day, if was proved that the deceased left a cottage adjoining late on Saturday evening' to return to her own home, and i« ia surmised that the night being dark, uhe must have missed her way and fallen over the bank, and so met with her death.