TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 3579, 10 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

<»r . , — (PER PBESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL ■ WISE.) WANGANUI, Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, the tent used as a stable for the horses and zebras, of Chiarini's circus, caught fire. The night watchman loosened the animah and let them go. The. tent was burned down. The animals scampered over the town, but were all recaptured. The loss is about £400. > CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The sixth annual session of the' Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars for N. Z: 1 South, was opened to-day in the Good Templars-H all: About' seventyrepresentatives aucl^ members were present. Tae repovtf submitted' showed the piesent' uutulsGx \iC luvtgua lv guvxl aOuuvUug. W UG lUO. The existing' membership is 7653 r being an" decrease of 323 on last year's returns. The railway contracts in course of construction in Canterbury amount to £70,000. Trial surveys have also been made of several other lines, including one from. Little River,' the end of the present Akaroa line contract, to Akaroa township. Besides these- works, there are several public buildings, amounting to a good many' thousand pounds, in course of construction, • including a new wing to the lunatic asylum, • courthouses at Christchurch and Waimate, post office for Timaru, and several large bridges., i . • L. H. McGregor, storekeeper, of the ship Hurunui. was going on board his vessel last night, when he .fell from the gangway into the water, striking his head between the ship and wharf. He died four hours later. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. ' To-night's Star' says: — " We' hear that on the return of Mr Justice Williams from Invercargill,. Mr Macdonald (acting for Messrs J. C. Williamson, Gilbert, and 'Sullivan), in- , tends applying for an injunction to restrain the Juvenile Troubadours from playing 1 Pinafore.' It js* also stated that'proceedings are to be taken against Messrs Towle and Ogden for an infringement of the Author's Copyright Act." The committee of the Ofcago Cricket Association met last evening at 5 o'clock to receive a letter.from the Canterbury ' Association, fixing Mouday, the 12th' ? Jnunary, r for the | commencement o£ the Interprovincial match. , It was resolved to request, Canterbury to agree to' an so as to' include a Saturday in the days of play. ' " II Trovatore" was performed with great success by the Opera Company last night. The weather to-day has been ve T y unplea-, sant, and farmers in the country districts are beginning to complain of too much rain.