NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7297, 14 February 1887, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS,

PKB FBESS ASSOCIATION. BOAT ACCIDENT AT NAPIER. Wellington, February 14. Captain Edie, of the Mararoa, reported yesterday that he had seen what appeared to be a fatal boat accident when leaving Napier. A telegram from that plaoe says " that in the sailing raoe a boat capsized and another ran into it, but the men were all rescued." COUNTY COUNCIL IN TROUBLE. Gbeymouth, February 14. The Controller-General has instructed a local firm to take proceedings against the members of the County Council, in respeot of certain moneys alleged to have been illegally voted. A formal demand for a refund will first be made.

The Waitara district constable, Mr. Day, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, a position he ought to have occupied some years since. One thousand pauper immigrants, inchHing 75 gipsies, have been sect back to Europe by the New York Commissioners of Immigration during the year 1886. The most eztmordinary precautions, says an English papur, are being taken to prevent aaj tacts leaking out with regard' to the new comic opera, by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Savoy Theatre, which would enable American pirates to aaticipate the author's copyright. Mr. Gilbert himself conducts every rehearsal, taking care to have the house searched ere the business commences. Neither piece cor characters are named, the performers referring to one another ait A, B, C, etc., and all concerned are bound under tremendous penalties neither to whistle any of the airs nor repeat any of the lines to a living soul outside the theatre. The piece will probably be produced early in January. For the past two or three years, says an English paper, the Continent has been deluged with forged Bank of England notes executed in a atyl» defying detection, even by the most txpt ri«nced. From Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna, Berlin, Milan, Borne, all the towns in the south of France, frequent complaints have been made by the victims of these frauds. It is evident that the forgers have either access to the bank paper or have found means of copying it exactly, for the strictest comparison between the real and forged notes fails to show any difference in the water mark or quality of the paper ; and in fact high authorities in the Bank of England say that it ib impossible to detect the difference except by signs and numbers known only to themselves.