TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7235, 3 February 1892, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

Per United Press Association.

■WELLINGTON,

February 2. Beferring to the question of Legislative Council appointments last session, (the 'Post' says it has good authority for Btating that tbe Governor has promised the Ministers to make fifteen appointments to the Legislative Oounoil. The names will be submitted on his arrival in Wellington. The list will almost oertainly include Mr Fraser, but not Mr [Jellicoe. The Premier on the other hand assured an interviewer to-day that it was as likely bs not the names wonld not be submitted to Lord Onslow, but to his successor. The Government had absolutely oome to no determination as to names, but the number would be considerable, very likely as many as fifteen. Among these would be a proportion of labor representatives, striotly drawn from the ranks of the actual working oiass of the Liberal Association in the course of formation here.

The report of tbe Commission to enquire into the oharges against the Rev DeOartro, of the Publio Works Office, is to the effeot that his conduct had not unfitted him for employment in Civil Service, but that he had bettor not return to the Public Trust Office. As Mr DeOastro has completed a term qualifying him for a pension this report Will entitle him to receive it.

The amount of Customs revenue collected in the Colony last month was £184,810, to which Auckland contributed Wellington £26,416, Ohristohurch £20,825, and Dunedin ' £84,946. The returns for the previous month showed a total of £181,881, and those for January, 1891, £115,044. For the ten months of the financial year there is a surplus of £84,182 9s 5d over the Oolonial Treasurer's esti* mate. Last month's Beer duty paid in the Colony, was £4,885, as against £6,950 for the preceding month, and £4,840 for the corresponding month of the previous year. The estimate for the ten months was £50,000, but the amount collected up to the present only reaches £47,018 17s 3d, leaving a deficit of £2,986 2s 9d. The amounts collected at the principal ports were : Auckland £1048, Wellington £489, Christchurch £828, Dunedin £429.

The Anokland Ammunition Company has offered, a prize of £25 to be competed for "with sniders at the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting, Ihe Association will add £20, and the matoh will be fired at 500 yards, ten shots. It will be inoluded in the book programmes, and oalled the Auckland Ammunition Company's match. Major Somerville estimates ihat the number of competitors at the annnal gathering willbe 800. A proclamation issued by the Governor pf New South Wales, prohibiting, the importation of New Zealand cheep into that Oolony, is published in the Gazette. DUNBDIN, January 31. James Seoiek, a laborer on the Otago Oentral Railway, near Taieri Lake Station, committed suicide by outting his throat with a' razor at eleven b'olock last night. Deceased appeared to have suffered great pain internally, and had expressed a wish that God would take his life. While being attended to by his mates last night, he seized a razor and out his throat, pointing to that part of his body where the pain was. Death was almost instantaneous. Deceased was married, a native of Sweden, abont forty-seven years of age, and had been in the Oolony some twenty years. He had no children, and his wife resides at Balfour, Southland. The Chinese i eookya^ theyTeViot station was kioked in the abdomenlby a horße, and died in an hour aiterwards.

' TheTarawera'epaeeenger list for the third Sounds exoursion is full, and a good many names haye been given^n for a fourth* -A,i:rr,. . ;•.■?*■§ At a meeting of the Dunedin Jookey Club to elect officers, the t position of starter was ftgwa offered to fttr Driver,

but was declined by him, and it was ' deoided to advertise for a gentleman to , fill the position. The other officers . were the same as before. ;- The question of erecting a cool chamber for dairy produce was brought forward at the Harbor Board meeting, but was adjourned. February 29. The Hon. J. G. Ward arrived in town to-day from the Bluff. About 200 tiokets have been disposed of so far for the banquet to the Governor on Saturday. :' r -iV Two oases of smallpox have, broken out among the orew of the barque . Umfoti from Mauritius, who are now onthe quarantine island. The men; were taken ill yesterday. One is reported to be better to-day, but the other man is said to be covered with pustules! and very feverish. ATJOKLAtfD, mt Februarys. ■■ The man who was ran over on the tramway at Epsom last night, and who died afterwards in the hospital, has been identified as a pensioner named Patrick Dunn. He was a man of eccentric habits, and had no settled place of above. The first sheep fair of the season was held to-day by Messrs A. Buokland and Sons at their Remuera yards. The/attendance was the largest seen et these fairs for some years. Abont twelve thousand sheep were sold, and prices were ' satisfactory. Those for Linooln ewes reaching 20s 63, given 1 for some bred by Mr Robert Hall on : Tree Hill, whilst £12 each were paid ; for ram hoggets bred [by Mr Baird of 1 Otahuhn. At a meeting of the Auckland. Pres- \ bytery to-night a motion was passed i expressing sorrow at the death of the late Mr Spurgeon. t The Amateur Ohampion WhaJeboat . Race, of J865, was won by the Waite- . mata crew, the North Shore orew being , second, and the Hauraki crew third. > Four boats started. The North Shore \ crew have entered a protest; c BLENHEIM, ' January 30. s At a meeting of the shareholders in the Wakamarina Gorge Goldmining Company, it was resolved to approve s of the action of the Directors in offer--0 ing to dispose of one-half of the mine c to Australian capitalists for £2000, and the sale of the mine, there being 1500 unallotted shares, has in the meantime been suspended. » "■ ■ •»' ' ■ ,1 — —^i**—^—^— ■