TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 3294, 10 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL WIRE) ! NEW PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY. A temperance alliance has been formed to prevent the increase of licensed houses and granting licenses to improper people. WELLINGTON", Thuksday. ..Mr Franklin, the actuary attached to the office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies, has compiled a valuable table, showing the minniinum rates payable during life, which would enable Friendly or Benefit Societies to grant the various sums guaranteed to members, and at the same time maintain a condition of solvency. Makareta Te Paui, daughter of Nyapaki Te Paui,; eldest son of Honiana Te* Puni, died at Petpri on Wednesday, the Bth inst., after a- long illness. She was greatly respected by the Hutt and Taranaki natives, and acknowledged as a chief tainess of the highest rank and ability. Very serious bush fires are raging at Carterton, and a considerable portion of the town is in danger. The wind is driving the j flames " to vyai'ds houses,' and some fences of back yards are already burnt. The Gazette to-night declared section 29, block 2, Longwood district, open for sale on the 18th February. The time for the sitting of the Wyndham Assessment Court is extended till to-day ; Thomas Perkins to be auditor of the Hokonui rabbit district ; Benjamin Willoughby to be town clerk of Campbelltown: T. 0. Harris to be registrar of births. Provisional upon their acceptance, the following nomination by the American Government has been made.: — Mr John. Salmon as U.S. Consular agent at Russell, Mr Robert Wylie United States Consular agent at Wanganui, and Mr Charles Berry Taylor United States Consular agent at Christchurch. Mr G-. L. Mellisli is gazetted to be resident magistrate of Lyttelton, with £100 jurisdiction.' Colin McK. Gordon is to be sheriff off Otago, and the Mayors of Ross, St. Kilda, South Invercargill, Roslyn, and Dunedin, to be justices of the peace. The'town of Carterton is in great danger. The fire is spreading rapidly. The police and telegraph offices have been on fire, but it was got under. A messenger was despatched to Masterton for the fire-engines, and they are expected in a few hours. The appearance of matters is very bad. CHRISTCHURCH, Thuesday. A meeting was held this evening in the Provincial Council Chambers to congratulate the Primate on his attaining his seventy-fifth birthday, and to hear from his Lordship an account of the Lambeth Conference. There' was a fair attendance. The Primate gave a resume of the business done at' the conference. Resolutions passed included one urging the completion of the Cathedral. ' ' v . . To get rid r of the accumulation of goods on the South lines caused by the break in the .Rangitata bridge, 140 waggons a-day have been employed for the last week. On Wednesday evening and this evening extra special goods trains were sent to Ashburton each consisting of 44 waggons. ', , The railway benefit employes society have decided to arrest Valpy again, .which was to be "done this evening. A paid secretary at £200 a-year is to be engaged for the future. TIMARU, Thuesday. As soon as the GO-ton steam ci'ahefor the harbor works is delivered, rapid progress will be made, as about 50 blocks, varying from 25 to 30 tons, are ready to be laid; - The Harbor Board, calculate tliey will- have at least

6100,000 still in hand after paying for the $00 feet more, now under contract. A number of sections of land, two and a Half miles from Timaru, were sold to-day, and averaged £221 per acre. O AMARU, Thursday. At a meeting of the Municipal Council tonight, tenders were accepted for. several contracts on the "water works, ■ and the work,* it is expected, will be resumed in a day or two. A good deal of the work will remain in the hands of the old workmen, and will therefore itis thought be carried out most satisfactorily. The amounts of the tenders," generally, are slightly in excess of the engineer's estimate, but the total will not fay exceed the balance of the amount of the original contract with Eenderson. DUNEDIN, Thursday. The Flood Relief Committee, after meeting "ill demands and voting a sum for the relief of sufferers by the Waitnale Bush lire, have still a balance of £500 in hand. A meeting will shortly be held to decide as to its disposal. The Morning Herald says it is believed that the property of Mr S. Gilligan, who died rather' suddenly in Wellington this week, will fall to Mr Charles Gilligau, who has been employed as assistant in Mr S. T. Kerr's clothing establishment, in George street. Mr Gilligan is believed to have died intestate, iv which case his brother will obtain possession of the property. Mr C. Gilligan left for Wellington on Tuesday morning. The deceased brother's estate, consisting of property in the North Island and in Canterbury, and also of racehorses, is estimated at from £30,000 or £-10,000 to £70.000. His last acquired estate, worth £16,000, he had made over to -his brother's youngest daughter. A boy named William Power, aged fifteen, employed in the Daily Times Office, was committed for trial to-day, for forging the name of R. N. Adams, the publisher, to a cheque for £10.- The youngster purchased some clothing at the New. Zealand Clothing Factory's re- , tail branch, tendered a cheque' in payment, and received cash. The lad made the cheque payable to another boy in the same office. Thomas, the Victorian wrestler, who was beaten in the championship contest by Tyson, is to be presented with a , purse of soys. before leaving for Australia by those who admire his manly straight-forward conduct. The excursionists to. the Sounds in -the steamer Rotorua secured two fine specimens •of kakapo but only one was brought to port alive. ' It is understood that the southern trunk line will not be opened for through traffic until the 20th inst. . A suicide and attempted, murder occurred on the Bth inst. between Ophir and Blacks; Mrs Waldreon was riding on horseback, in i company with a friend, who was driving a 1 reaping machine. They were going through j one of the loneliest parts of the road, with great rocks towering all round, when suddenly a man supposed to be Mrs Waldreon's husband jumped out from ambush and presented a shot gun at her. She was a little behind her friend, and called out " don't shoot me Waldreon," bending her head doivn under cover of. the horse's neck to protect her face and breast. He immediately fired, and ,the contents of the gun lodged principally ' in her right arm. lacerating it to a frightful extent. Her horse, which received portions- of shot in the shoulder, and that of her friend, bolted. When t"he friend heard the report he looked round and saw Mrs Waldreon fall and a man rapidly reloading the gun. He lifted the injured woman up and carried her to a Mrs Low's residence. She was very weak and bleeding profusely. Next morning a search party went out to arrest Waldreon, and found his dead body, behind a rock ; he had shot himself. Mrs Waldreon is now lying at the Commercial Hotel, St. Bathans, nnder the care of the local surgeon, who thinks it will be possible to save her arm. Waldreon had been absent two years, during., which time he had contributed nothing to the support of his wife and family. Great sympathy is expressed in the district for Mrs Waldreon, who has resided there fourteen years, and is noted for her industry. The determination of the Government to withdraw all free passes on the railways has been applied to the gangs of prisoners from Dunedin Gaol who have been employed at various places in the vicinity of Dunedin. All the railway lines in Otago are in good order, and the trains running to time. The Dunedin Presbytery yesterday adopted an overture to the Synod of Otago to take measures to secure the daily reading of the Bible in schools.

(PER PEESS AGENCY.) ALEXANDRA, Thursday. The Native Minister with a large staff arrived here yesterday afternoon. Rewi came down from Punui to visit them this morning, and said that Sheehan will wait until afternoon to meet the King of Rarotoni ga, who is on his way up to visit Tawhaio. The Native Minister then returns via Hamilton. , GRAHAMSTOWN, Thuesday. The Taranaki cricket team beat the Thames Eleven. Game was decided by the first innings. The Thames men were inclined to make afstand in the second innings, only two wickets going down for 50 runs, when the game was drawn. Scarlet fever broke out here yesterday, and the local Board of Health has ordered, the isolation of the family. An infant died from sunstroke on board the steamer Rotomahana during her passage from Auckland to the Thames. It is understood Government will at once call for tenders for reclaiming the foreshore for the proposed railway line along the beach, between Grahamstown and Shortland. , NAPIER, Thursday.. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars concluded its session yesterday. In the evening a public meeting was held in the Protestant Hall and was largely, attended. Hon. W. i Fox (Auckland), Jenkins and Speight, (Thames), and Mr Phillips addressed the audience. At the conclusion of the meeting Mr Fox said -he had received a note from some person in the room asking him to explain why a member of the Working Men's Club could not be . a Good Templar. He (Mr Fox) would reply that the Good Templar order was organised on the basis of total abstinence, and by pledge taken every Good Templar might not drink himself or become a partner in the sale ef drink. The idea was totally irreconcilable. It was holding a candle to the Lord wich the right hand and another to the Devil with the left. . „, WELLINGTON, Thursday. Jas. Mackie, who yesterday was found guilty of larceny and forgery, was this morning sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Referring to the recommendation of mercy made by. the jury, the Chief Justice said that, as Mackie was 31 year's old, he had passed that age when such a recommendation could be entertained. There was also no .excuse for the prisoner on the ground of insufficient salary. At a meeting of the Wellington District Highway Board yesterday, one of the wardens, said that •■during his 39 years experience in this district laborers were never so scarce as at present. . '. r The Hutt. County Council are taking legal i opinion as to their claim to twenty per cent, i of the proceeds of the sale of the reclaimed i land. They also consider they were entitled to twenty per cent, of the amount realised "by the sale of the Courthouse. The Board also discussed the unfairness of allowing Maori landholders to be exempt from paying rates, while the poorest European who rented only a couple of acres from a Maori had to pay. - -There is great scarcity of room- for shipping at the Public Wharf. The Pleiades has been, waiting eight days for a berth. In the case of Falloon assaulting Murtagh and Murtagh assaulting Falloon, a nolle 2)roseg_ui was entered by the Crown Prosecutor, he being of opinion that the dispute , was one to be decided by civil rather than ' criminal action. - . - " ; ■ ■ While -some boys" -were playing amongst the piles of a house occupied by Mr Bacon, they found a new Martini-Henri rifle, some new bought colored blankets made up into a nice swag ready for the road, and a satchel, contained over two hundred notes in a bundle. The property was handed over to the police by Millard,fatherof-theboy who found it. Young Bacon, who is employed in the Anchor Line office, was arrested by the police, and charged with the robbery; he denied it haTd at first, but eventually admitted he was guilty. He bought the rifle and" two boxes of ammunition from Mr Dawson, the ironmonger, and he subsequently confessed that a pocket book with £45 in it was hidden near Wadestown. A detective accompanied him to where the money was secreted — a rugged inaccessible place in the scrub, about two miles from Wadestown. and four from Wellington. The money was found all right. The lad expressed regret that the whole of the money had not been at Wadestown. and then Jic would not iiEVFe been

in custody. The money found under the house was wrapped in the copy of a newspaper containing an account of the Kelly gang. When asked by one of the police if he bought the rifle with the object of joining the Kelly gang, he replied he might have done so if he could get over to them. The youth is between 14 and 15, but rather rather smart and self-possessed for 'his age. The whole of the money, exclusive of what was paid for the rifle, is "recovered within .some nine or ten. pounds. Tbo lad's father is a steady respectable man. DUNEDIN"; Thursday. The regatta to be held next week at Henly, on the Taieri, promises so be more than a local affair, as the Canterbury- Rowing Club has intimated its intention of entering for the Challenge Fours and Ladies' Plate. Mr W. H. Reynolds was to-day re-elected chairman of the Harbcr Board till February. PORT CHALMERS, Thursday. At the Police Court to-day J. Patcrson, providore q£ the s.s. Easby, was fined £25 for smuggling a case of brandy ashore. J. Wyburd, the steward, who carried it, was fined £3.