SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5181, 30 May 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[Pkr Press Assooiatioh.J ; Auckland, Friday!. Sailed: The Lochlinne, for Calcutta, Arrived: The Waratab, from Port Victoria ; Herald, from Greymouth,. Charles Hoy, an old man, dropped dead in Otahuhu from heart diseuee. He* had been drinking, "~" The steamer McGregor was eucceasfully floated off the rocks at Kawau,' and beached at Bon . Accord harbour, where she will be; ..repaired and 'brought into Auckland. ■ ■ The City North Licensing nave notified no less than six houses of objection to- renewing licenses on the ground of Sunday trading, insufficient accommodation, and not ropuired in tbd neighbourhood. ....... Steps are being taken to canvas the city re the establishing of a company, with a suggested capital of £60,000, lo work La Monte's patent for gold Baving. Mr Thomson, M.H R. for City: North, addressed his constituents to ; night,' •He expreseedhis regret; that' the "present Government was not formed on purely party lines, and saw no hopes of it next session, or, indeed, in the present Parliament. He bitterly denounced: the district railway purchase and the enormous defence expenditure through the war scare.' which, he thought,' should have been extended over a series of years. He was averse to the annexation of Fiji to New Zealand, and preferred the federation of ■ the _ Empire to the federation of the Australian Colonies;: : A .vote of confident -was unanimously;accorded,himrM-;

• - ' WmisaTON,•Friday,;' A passenger by theFostpD'Coacbj-whb ;ot' in, at ; Foxton yesterday, was fonn'd lead lost night wheni ' the .coach arrived*in lown. From papers found, it is surmised [hat the deceased ia John Wilding,,who had been . engaged 'overseer on the Wellington-Manawatu Railway., a dadghter, ia ia Marton, .and, it ; is believed .that he has friends in Oamaru. Wilding was on his way to the Wellington ; Hospital. * At:the inquest on the body a postmortem:showed that death resulted'from the diseased condition of the heart'and lungs, find a veY' 3ict was returned in; accordance Hvitli thi nedical testimony. ' ' '' i

(Joyerament have received'pfficmFintination that the New Zealand loan Has been placed on the London, market' ata'miniraura of .. A, „ • ,

. Gisborne,.Friday.;-; r Anxiety- is felt here for -the safety-of the barque Lochnagar, which left here 142 days t ago for London, laden : with wool'; nothing has been heard of.her.,; There was only ono passenger, Mr Ralph' Arthur. • , ; ;; Donbdin,Friday,. At the City; Court,. to-day,,' Sydney Knight was sentenced to two months with hard labourforasaaultingaChiriam'anr The qvidence discloßed a shocking state of immorality: the prisoner obliging his wife to live with the Chinese. He is \vell ; connected in England, and is understood to be a~ remittance man. • His children appeared id Court yesterday .charged'with theft, • : - Andrew-Dalziel, one of the -original Otago settlers, died yesterday, aged 80 years.; ■ ' ' . A man named W. B. Stanley, while cleaning the spouting on the roof of .the City Hotel, slipped and fell through asky.light, falling a distance of 35 feet on .to the asphalt in the back yard, vHe is ijot expected to live. ' ';