TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 3418, 4 June 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦_ : (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL WIRE.) GREYMOUTH, Tuesday. At the Licensing Court tO;day there were twenty-eight applications for. renewals of hotel licenses, twenty-six of which were granted, one deferred, and one refused. The Wealth of Nations "Quartz Mining. Company have declared a dividend of three shillings per scrip. NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. The Hinemoa leaves for Wellington this afternoon, taking the Governor, the; Premier, Col. Whitmore and party. The Governor does not visit Auckland until the 12th June, as he will be detained in Wellington owing to a full .cabinet meeting ,to be held there to consider the native difficulty, and to decide what action should be taken in the matter. A cabinet meeting, was held here this morning, and a deputation to the Government is talked of. . . WAN.GAN CI, Tuesday. Wirihia Punia, a friendly chief who served with distinction in the late war, died of consumption. At the licensing meeting" renewals were '.granted in all bat 3 cases which, were held over for a week. GISBORNE, Tuesday. John Brodie was committed for trial at District Court for conspiring to evade the '; Arms Ac. Michael Boyle was committed for trial to the Supreme Comt at Napier for 'feloniously selling guns to Maoris. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The assault case Anderson arid Eesby, was called on in the Police vCburt to-day but counsel stated that the parties had settled their diflicjulties amicably. Anderson . withdrew the information, against Easby, and Easby undertook;tOi offer no evidence against Anderson in the Supreme Court, the witnesses'not having been bound over. , ■ A meeting of , ,the shareholders of the West Wanganui Coal Company was held, last night, when, a .report, was brought up from a committee' previously 'appointed toinvestigate the 'condition of the coal fields. It showed them to be in most Unsatisfactory condition l and disclosed 'gross mismanagement ' almost from the' first. It was suggested that fresh -shares should be floated in England,' jand 'that 'the, company's steamer Samson 'he -sold as tug boat either for Wellington -or the" West Coast immediately.^. It ' was resolved' " That all expenditure with r the mine be stopped' and existing' -liabilities be discharged as speedily as possible," ' either by calls or by ' sale'of the steamer, and. that secretary ■" be instructed^ to take vigorous measures for re- ' covery of all arrears and penalties prescribed by the rules." ' *•-•■■" ' " -\ CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. At the annual meeting 1 of the Licensing Bench' to-day,, all- the , nev^. Sydenham r appli- , cants were refused, and in one' case' the, exist- " ing license was suspended because noatternpt had, been made.to provide better accommoda- - tion. The Commissioners expressd a decided opinion that in future no wooden hotels would be at all likely to, obtain licenses, and pbjec-r ted to the bad accommodation that was so, . prominent in many of the pioposed hotels. Lewis, charged- with arson, was .committed for trial. Bail was; allowed iv two sureties of £150 and self £300. < ■ , , „ •'/ ■j' A comparison of the diaries of twelve well- • known, lovers of jthe gentle art in phristchureh.' gives the following numbers of their respective takes during the ■ last season : — 498, 100, 24:6, 201, 102, 99, 185. .99, 63, 71, 79, 82— Total, 1815. The largest' trout -illed was 6f lbs. and th^emaliestflby- . '. '-'-'-•. -,

An attempt was made about three this morning to shoot a warder at Sunnyside. Asylum. ECe -vra-s aroused bj- tlas barking of the house dogs, and went out, when a man started up, gun. in hand. The warder, icacae- i diately shot round a-corner, and man i fired as he disappeared aud missed him. The < fellow then disappeared; and no trace'pf him, i has yet beetffdund. It was moonlight at the ' time. At the meeting of the Canterbury Ministers' Asspciationr-held on- -Monday night;': a; discussion took place on the Governor's actions in regard to tt c-, Sabbath fDay. j The Association' expressed .Its! respectful .but,__*. phatic disapproval of the course His Excel.lency„has taken on two or three , occasions, and which, according to it, are. now well known all over the colony. '""'■ ~ 1 ":"" '■' ' ' " \''\;'''-':^:.;.:;.V:::TiMAß^,._:ijEsipAY. ' The civil sittings of the District Cburt^ have had to be again postponed, owing to the continued illness of Judge Ward". The Timaru school committee resolved that it was useless to enforce the ; compulsory clauses v of ,the Education'" Act, as the Board : of Education declined to provide sufficient accommodation. They also decided to take ho action re penny savings banks in schools., i • OAMARU, Tuesday. The Hon. Mr Macandrew arrived in town to-night from the North, and was met by the Mayor, who interviewed him on several'pubdie matters. He also presented a petition from a 4 number of the unemployed. r Inreply^ Mr MacSndr^w (said cit] was tpitar ( ir J the first portion the Livingstpn4 railway ih " a month, and some of the formation would, be let by piece. " - > v DUNEDIN, Tuesday. At .the City- Council /meeting; to-day^the Gas Engineer reported that for th.c fortriighfi "ended^May 28, 2;902,400 cubic'feetof gW-had*-been manufactured from 281 tons of coal. The average illuminating ;power ( w as sixteen candles. He had been experiuienting with Greymouth and Kaitangata coals mixed, but> the experiment were".- not yet~Teonc!u'ded£ During tbe fortnight,l32 "tons' of Greymouth coal had; been used. . : . - ■, ■: v Mr George McLean has received votes of confidence from the Flag Swamp and Inch Valley portions of his constituency., There are thirteen candidates in Dunedin for tha civil service examination. - As as outcome of the 'combination entered into between the bakers to raise the price of .bread' 'to' s|d per 4-lb loaf, oh so-called 4 : T lb ■loaf, a wholesale bread factory has been established by Mr Hudson for the purpose of supplying the grocers with a first-class full weight loaf, which will be sold to the public for cash at sd. A railway employe named Samuel Hodgkius met with a serious accident this morning while helping to discharge a true c of timber. . A log weighing about 25 cwt. was being slung, when the break slipped, and one end of the log struck Hodgkins and crushed him to the ground. He has received injuries tb 'his head and side. He is still unconscious, aud his recovery is doubtful. >Iv reply to a communication from the City Council; the Government have promised to consider the request to place a sum on the estimates for the Governor's residence at or hear Dunedin.