TELEGRAPHIC.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 985, 17 January 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(PER PRESS association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 15. Mr Gamble, the Auckland agent of the Pacific Mail Company, and Mr Ormstead, a special agent sent from America to make arrangements relative to the = renewal of the San Francisco mail contract, arrived by the Ringarooma: this morning. . They will have an interview to-morrow with the Premier and Postmaster-General, but it is understood that no definite agreement can be come to until the views of New South Wales are distinctly pronounced, as the matter must largely depend on the action of that colony. New South Wales objects to the loss of time experienced in deviating to Auckland, and it. is probable that the substitution of Russell as the port of call will; he ,Btrongly. urged on the New Zealand Government. Jan. 16. ” At the Magistrate’s Court; to-day, Knigg, proprietor of the Brunswick Hotel, was fined £lO and £2 costs, on a charge of adulterating beer with sulphuric acid. From the evidence it appeared there was no intention to adulterate the liquor, but. the jar in which the beer was sold had.previously contained sulphuric acid. It is probable a charge cd Sunday trading will emanate from this case. , AUC KL ANjp, ; Jam-15. ~ Four sea r men of the ship Famenolh, arrived to-day,from London, have arrested for broaching cargo on the

passage. There is great interest taken here in a race between the Union Company’s steamer Manaponri anti the mail steamer City of Sydney, which left here for Sydney last Tuesday evening,. A special cablegram from a passenger to the Star shows that, reckoning differences in the time of departure from Auckland, the vessels made the voyage .within five minutes of each other, both doing the distance in four days and two hours, or an average of a traction over thirteen miles an hour. y? OHIIISTOHURCH,Jan 15. A 1 is current that Messrs Robinson and Lance intend to proceed against the stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Clob summer race meeting, for the recovery of stakes for the Midsummer Two-year-old Handicap, on the ground that they were improperly awarded to-the owners of Helena. The handicap was a sweepstake of 10 sovs., each with £2OO added. The Crown Brewery Company have ■declared a dividend of 10 per cent., and carried a large sum to the reserve fund. The Harbour Board have given their Engineer,'Mr Napier Bell, a present of £250,“ irfSjb’cognitioh of his services in connection with the dock..- The Board are favourable to the establishment of a Humane Society for the colony. ,"A tender has been let for a toailors Home at Lyttelton, to cost £2400. TIM ABU, Jan 15. , The Insurance Association have decided to reduce the rates on vessels loading lor Home inside the Timnrn breakwater —from 47s 6d to 37s 6d, thus making them, in reality, the same as at Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and other principal ports, with current coastal rales. OAMARTJ, Jan. 15. The poliqe. have been making a raid on the sly grogsellers, with the result that quite a rush of them are in process of making their appearance before the Resident Magistrate. The cases commenced on Friday, and arc not yet finished. ■ - DUNEDIN, Jan. 15. A man named W. E. G. Heath was arrested’to-day on a charge of com.mitting a criminal assault on Lucy Brown, aged eight years, at West Taieri, on the 3rd inst. The man Bewley, for a Similar offence committed on a

girl twelve years of age,'near the Bo-taiii'-al G miens, lias been committed for trial. I'ils aft. rnpon two lads employed in a i n oher’s shop at Port Chalmers had quarrelled about a knife. It en led in one nulled White driving it tluungh the thigh of the other, named Harnock. White was'arrested and expresses sorrow for his hasty action.