TELEGRAMS

Southland Times, Issue 12009, 1 April 1892, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, Marcii 31. The body found in the harbour has been identified as that of Jane Drummond, a single woman, a native of Belfast, Ireland, and aged about 65. A new trial of the action Customs v. Sharland and Co. is to be applied for. Gregory Nicholla, a carpenter, employed in building a shed at Hellaby's slaughter- ■ house, Cox's creek, was killed to-day by the fall of some timber through a derrick giving way. The man was a widower and leaves a family. WELLINGTON, March 31. Mr T. K. McDonald has been re-elected chairman of of the Woollen Company. \ln connection with the statement published by the Dunedin Star that the Hon. P. A. Buckley intended to resign and contest an Irish constituency Mr Buckley stages that it is true that he has received ft request that he should stand for an Irish constituency, but he has not accepted the invitation or decided upon any course of action. PATEA, March 31. A girl named O'Brien, aged ten, was terribly burned last night through her clothes catching fire, and has succumbed to her injuries. CHRISTCHURCH, March 31. The annual report of the North Canterbury Education Board states that the expenditure on buildings during the year was L 761 2; on teachers' salaries, L 53,091 ; and grants to committees and incidentals, L 6989. The average attendance was L 17,514 ; the cost per 'head for teachers' salaries was L 3 Oa 7&d, atid the total cost of maintaining the schools L 3 8s 7Ad per head. DUNEDIN, March 31. The Evening Star states that the Hod. P. A. Buckley will shovtly resign his seat in thu Cabinet, and seek election in the House of Commons for an Irish constituency in the National interest. Mr Dugald .Popplewell, solicitor of Gore, who is a' native of Milton,: is to be presented with a requisition to stand.: for the vacancy for.Bmce- •..-.., At a meeting of the Harbour -Board today the Lyttelton Board applied for an extension of the charter of the big dredge. Xt

' was agreed, subject to the concurrence of the ] Welliugtou Board, which has chartered the I dredge from the end of May, to extend the i charter for a month. It was resolved to minute the Board's appreciation of the brave conduct of Pilot Milne and his crew in connection with the accident at the heads by which a seaman on the barque Sardanah had lost liia life, and it was agreed to vote the amount earned by the Board for the service to the men^jPilot Milne receiving L 5 and each of the crew L 2. It was resolved to consult Mr Napier Bell on the lower harbour proposals, owing to the death of Sir J. Coode. The compensation case Borton v. Minister of Public Works, a claim for LIOOO, was continued to-day when Sir R. Stout opened the case for the respondent. The defence is chiefly that the condition of affairs which resulted in damage had accrued prior to the date of the proclamation of the Maerewhenua river as a channel for tailings, and that the mining that had taken place subsequently had made no appreciable difference. It was also stated that respondent would rely upon a prescriptive right, acquired by over 20 years' use, to discharge tailings and upon tho fact that the claimant's land or portions of it was divided from the stream by Crown Land. The Maerewhenua not being mentioned as the boundary but Crown lands ; that the water rights claimed did not exist, and that tiie bulk of the damage complained of was not consequent upon mining operations, but was common to rivers in the Waitaki valley.