LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 647, 11 March 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

CHRISTCHURCH,

March 10.

At a meeting of teachers on Saturday a number of resolutions were passed on the subject of new standards, which it was resolved to forward to the Minister of Education. A man named W. H. Griffiths, who was ordered on Saturday morning to pay j 255. a week for his wife's support, and who was required to find two securities of £30 to guarantee the payment, broke from the police, and threw himself into the river close by. Ho was fetched out I by Constable Walls in an insensible condition, and was removed to the Hospital. Having been drinking heavily j lately, his immersion gave a severe shock to his system, and it is -doubtful if he will recover. |

An attempt was made to wilfully burn down a five-roomed cottage in the Stanmore Road jit threo o'clock on Saturday morning. The house is insured for £200, and is said to be worth £1,000, and is the property of Mr. Olive. The fire was discovered running on the outside of the h )use at the time mentioned, and was soon extinguished. A quantity of coal was found piled against the house saturated with kerosene. There is no clue to the criminal. A special train left Selwyn at 3 a.m. yesterday for Oamaru, with 1,000 lambs. They will have to perform the rest of the journey overland, as the Railway Department cannot take them further than Oamaru. Advices have been received from London of the safe arrival from Lyttelton of the ships Waitaki and Orari. It is proposed to hold a grand fete in a few days in Hagley Park, in aid of the Kaitangata Relief Fund. The fete will be similar to the Indian Famine Fund fete, and a half holiday will be proclaimed upon the occasion. Yesterday. J. Hartland and Secretan, both well known Canterbury cricketers, to-day made 211 in a first class match before the first wicket fell. There is no record of this feat previously, and it has rarely been done in Australia. The committee of the Corn Exchange have passed a resolution calling the attention of the general manager of railway to the difference in tariff on the Victoria and Canterbury lines. They point out that in Victoria the minimum is one penny per ton per mile, with a shilling per ton terminal charge, while here the minimum is 2£d. per ton, with a terminal charge of 3s. 9d. The committee also ask that the rebate of 9d. a ton formerly granted to private sidings be again allowed.