TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 3578, 9 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

« (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL WIRE) AUCKLAND, Monday. 9, z i '■ The Coromandel goldfield is looking up again; HGCo/spf gold weie biought up today. k B k A man named Wrengingei muowly escaped ck/.itli while loading- hi-a {^ua. It -..eat off, v the cbaige going thi o ugh bii'uppei lip.Uirryjiug away a portion of thenose^ and grazing his foiehead. , ' At a meeting of the crcditois of Mr Kukby ,to -day, the debtor was desirous of taking it out of the bes»t man amongst the cieditTs, but the police being sent for, and appearing on the scene, he subsided. * , WELLINGTON, Monday. The estimates of public woiks have beeu re-cast smce news was received of the floating of the five million loan, and in consequence the delivery of the 'Statements has been postponed until to-moirow. j It is believed His> Excellency the Governor has abandoned all idea of going to Sydney for the piesent. The steamei Penguin, which left/ for Napier at 1 o'clock, letuined at 2, one, of her boiler tubes having buist. She wjill complete repaiis, and leas c again this evening. At the Supienie Couit iv Chambers this i afternoon- the Chief f Justice made an mder compelling the Inspecter of Police to hand * 'over tb the New Zealand creditor! all*f}iopcrty (taken from one Gleich ,at the time*of his arrest for fraudulent bankmptcyjat Ade* laide. The order was made in. consequence of the Appeal Com fc having decided ihat-jftc New Zealand ci editors ' had prefeieaqc over Adelaide creditois by Gleich having' changed his domicile by visitmg'Englandl The certificated accountants in' b.tnkrtipt?have" adopted a letter to the Chamber -of Commerce) in which that bo ly is requested - •to use its influence m ' ha\ rig Mr Berty j one of the accountant-*, sti tick off the ldlh WANGANUI, MONDAX r ' '* The Italian who assaulted Dr Earle^on -> Saturday -proceeded to the lacecouree. and buined down soine 'fencing theie. setting fire to it in twenty pln.es. He then threatened the custodian with a knife. t He was cap tin ed by the police near the Heads oa'SAturday. A shoemaker named Henderson, fiom the West Coast, stabbed Mr Poole, landlord of the Maxwelltown Hotel. The wound is* not v6ry seiious. ~yi ' - J. On Saturday mdrmng a man named John Pakenvell-was di owned in the Wanganui 'liver, ■< He took his.hoiseLuito^thc iiver.Jmd fell off into deep water. < * j f JL OISBORNE. Monday. Mr Webb,-latc*of the Stan'datd, has commenced an action against Mr Edgecombe, | late ofjthe Tauranga Times/ Damages • aie •'fixed at-£1000".- '•'-■ ± AtAtr^n , GREYMOUTH, Movday. The Claud ; Htimiltou shipped, olOOozs t lB dwts 16gi_ of gold from this poifc on 'Sunday. 1-7 ' ' ' L TIMARU. TkIONDAY. j The weather during the last 48 hours lias been very boisterous. Heavyaaiu- has fallen, j damaging the crops, flooding rivers,-, ana washing away a portion, of railway line i at Otaio. * ' ,J • - CHRISTCHURCH, Monday, j man 'Landman, who wasjii mired.at the Port on Saturday, 1 died to-day atTLyttelton. DUNEDIN Monday. , j The Duuedin ,Jockey Club to-day received* a letter fiom Mi 'H. Lance, accep'tang the^ office of handicapper tb the club', in place of* ,of-Mr C. Mooie. , Mi W Malcolm, lector of the Tokomairiro High School, ha-> beerl appointed rector^ of the Claieace Noiinal School. ' Sheaung has been commenced in the Likes distuct: the price ruling being 15s k pei hundied. At an inquest on the body of Henry Madden, found on Ocean Beach yesteiday, a verdict of fouud diowned-was returned. The deceased had been au inmate of the Benevolent Institution. , ■ i -■<■■■/. t ' CAMARU, Monday. At a meeting of the Oamaru-Naseby Railway Committee td-'day 'thef following ie-, solution' was passed £— '■ That the secretaiy ahd chLiitman be leque^ed to telegiaph to., the members thife^disftfiet andV_tb the member 1 for Mount Td*i Qfflv De Lautour). fctatufg 'that the Railway Committee uiges a special effort for the placihgiof the sum of ■£500 on the 'supplementary estimates for the ' 'purpose r-of causing a complete to be , 'made ,\\ith-a view to ascertaining the jbest loute foi a continuation of the WihdsorIjivmgstonc- line frqm j Lijvyigotone to a junction ibe^ mam inteiioi. SCidt_taieri( n-ilway.<oa the KjebnmxFiat-' --M , •• ->« 3 At the District Court to-day John WilhofEt, foi larceny, was sentenced, to 12 months; Iv baukmptcy. the certificate of J. T. Evans was suspended foi three mpntjis. a^cLtha^of Geoigc Alexander, Hai&is (late hotelkeeper of Duntioon) foj\twojyea_s. r ( > 0