TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 4495, 6 December 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). AUCKLAND, Monday. The Government intend laying out a township at Kawhia Harbor early next month on a piece of tynd purchased two years ago by the Government. It is also intended to buoy the harbor so that it may be used as a harbor of refuge. Tuesday. Jem Miice and Slade, after giving a boxing exhibition in tlje Theatre Royal, left by the mail steamer for San Franciso. The Bank of New Zealand shipped eight boxes of specie by the mail steamer, valued at £38,223. WELLINGTON, Monday. Several judgments -were delivered in the Appeal Court this morning 1 . The judgment in Maitland v. Mervin decides that Government cannot sue for instalments on deferred-payments. ; their only right ia to forfeit. By the , decision in Cooppr v. Goleman, a person cannot be adjudged a i bankrupt on the application of the person jjjho pur.djased, tfye cjebta for the purpose of ndjudicating him a 'bankrupt. The number of nominations for immigrants sent by yesterday's mail was 454 souls. The amount received for fees was £1359. ',',. ; OHRISTCHURGH, Tuesday. The .Chinese residents of Christcliurch have subscribed nearly. £60 towards; the destitute patients' relief fund at 'the Hospital, • A maiif named Grirdwoodj was fined fyl

to-day for breaking a fire alarm. He was apparently under the impression that when 1 the fire bells were ringing all the alarms ought to be going, and during one of the false alarms last night he broke the glass in a box in order to '•make it do its work. The R.M. told hind he -would let him off with a moderate fine, but the. next man caught would come in for the 'heaviest penatoyJJ^ law- allowed.- .'„., ?r . -■' The rose show to-day was not so good as usual, in consequence of the severe frosts nipping the flowers. . _. ", BLENHEIM, Monday. -The' Middle Island Railway Extension Commission held its first sitting here on Saturday, and were occupied during the ' day, in receiving evidence. The evidence '. adduced was mainly to show the character of the soil and climate along the east coast, and the central routes. ;" A very ÜBfayor-, able description was 'given of -the land.-be-tween Hanmer Plains and Tophouse; vlt^ was stated that' there was very little land suitable for agriculture. Evidence was given as to the .severity of the winter. of that route:and- its long continuance, also as to the great destruction of cattle ariel ■ sheep during the heavy snows and severe frosts. The general opinion was favorable to the construction . of a railway by the East Coast, where there was more available agricultural land, as tending to promote more settlement than would take place on the central route. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. A deputation from Dunedin School Committees waited on the Hon. Mr Johnston to-day, asking that once a year school children should be granted free railway tickets into the country for the benefit of their health and to visit their friends. Mr Johnston in reply said that all concessions made in connection with education matters mast be made by the Minister of Educa- 1 tion. He (Mr Johnston) sat there simply . as a carrier, and if the Minister of Education desired to issue free railway passes all he had to do -was to apply to him for them and" get them on payiog- for them. The matter was beyond his province. A deputation waited on Mr Johnston to protest against the removal from Danedin to Auckland of the head gaoler, Mr Caldwell. Mr Johnston said he would bring the matter before the Minister of Justice adding that the st«p had been taken solely in the interests of the public service, and he could hold out no hope of its being revoked. The Tokoinairiro A, and P. Show was held to-day and was very successful. The show of butter was declaied by good judges to be best they had seen. Concerning the fire at the Milton Pottery Works, to-day's Bruce Herald says — " It was at first considered by some that the fire, breaking out where it did, could only have been the work of an incendiary, but we have since learnt that a quantity of wet straw had been lying: in the shed for some weeks. This would undoubted by generate heat and as fresh straw was placed upon it the previous day, this may have caused the fire. Nothing can be known for certain as to the intentions of the company until the directors met, but it is most probable that, temporary appliances will be put up so that as many of the hands may be employed as possible, and the works kept from remaining at a standstill." The police to-day secured convictions for raffling houses, and intend proceeding against the managers of the Benevolent Carnival for holding lotteries. The Forbes banquet to-night given to him under the auspices of the Caledonian Society, was attended by 60 or 70 gentle- | men. Amongst those present were Hon. W. H. Reynolds; Messrs Bathgate, Fish, Bracken, and Rutherford, M.H.R.'s; Messrs Larnach, Stout, and many leading men of the city. Mr Bathgate proposed the toast of the evening in a happy speech, referring to many gifted men of the Forbes family for generations past, Mr Forbes in reply made a humorous speech which was greatly applauded.