TELEGRAMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4342, 24 March 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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AUCKLAND, Maboh 23. The Brogden claims, amounting to £400,000, will be investigated at the Supreme Court to-morrow. The Attorney-General will represent Government, and Messrs ifdward Hesketh and Robert Stout the Messrs Brogden. Mr Bellgrave, of Wellington, is also engaged in the oase. The Ponsonby Bowing Club has ordered a string test gig from Donneliy and Sullivan, of Sydney, for the AU>oomers Bace at their regatta on Easter Monday.

Mr Hogg, chief officer of the ship Oxford, narrowly escaped drowning last night, being pushed over the wharf by the crowd at the departure of tho Te Anau. A seaman of the steamer jumped overboard and rescued him. Mace made his first appearance at the Theatre Boyal to-night in his statuesque illustrations, to a full audience.

The painters have resolved to take steps to form a trade union.

Colonel Beader, after conference with the officers, recommends the abolition of the Auckland Bifle Battalion, and the reversion to independent companies, pending the reorganisation of the Volunteer force.

The Wellesley street east public school was burglariously entered, and a small sum taken from a teacher's desk.

At the ( adjourned annual meeting of the Providential Assurance Society, the balancesheet was adopted, and the officers for the ensuing year elected. In the course of a discussion on the present position of the Society, it was Btatod that death claims to the extent of £55 were unpaid, and there was only a balance in hand of £22. It was agreed to carry on the Society for three months, when it is expected it will amalgamate with the New Zealand Accident Insurance Society, j NAPIEB, Mahoh 23. j W. H. Clayton was arrested to-night on a oharge of passing valueless cheques. He has been working on Mr Williams' Edenham Btation. The valuations in some road districts being notoriously too low, the County Oeunoil deoided to object, but Judge Denny yesterday ruled that the Council had no locus ttandi. There will be an appeal. NEW PLYMOUTH, Mabch 23. The Directors of the Public Hall Company have accepted the plans for a theatre sent in by Mr Edmonds, late of Wellington. The building is to be sixty-five feet long inside, forty feet wide, and thirty feet high ; the stage forty-eight by thirty feet deep ; proscenium twenty-four feet wide by seventeen feet high. There are to be three shops in front. An accident ocourred at Manutabi North yesterday, to Mra Curd, wife of a platelayer. She was riding and fell from the saddle to the ground. Her jaw was completely shattered, and several of her ribs were broken. Mrs Curd is 70 years of age, and her injuries are likely to be serious. Mr B. H. Govett, of Wellington, writeß to the Taranaki Herald regarding a statement which appeared in the papers to the effect that Te Wetere did not receive him well on his recent visit to Mokau. Mr Govett writes : — "This is entirely incorrect. Te Wetere was from the first most courteous and hospitable. He at once gave us a pass and a guide to the Waikato. I have written to Te Wetere expressing my sorrow that his feelings should have been hurt by the thought that two strangers whom he had treated to kindly should have had the meanness, not to say the wiekedneas, to afterward* malign hitr, but it is only justice to him as well as to Mr Marshall and myself to publicly contradict the charge in question." WELLINGTON, Maboh 23. When the disabled cablo aoross Cook Strait is repaired, it is expected that a deviation from the present oourae will be adopted. At present appearances are in favour of a deviation to the southward and eastward, so as to avoid a troublesome farrow in the Strait. It is stated that Mr Alexander Brogden, M.P., has received a cablegram, asking him to return to England without delay, owing to the unsettled state of politics at Home. The Chatham Islands have been proolaimed a special licensing district. The notice of the appointment of He K. Eranel to be Consul-General for the German Empire at Sydney, with jurisdiction in New Zealand, has been received, and is notified in the Qazettt. GBBYMOUTH, Maboh 23. Some time ago the Direotors in Langdon's Company sent 25cwt of antimony ore to Melbourne to be tested, and about ten tonß Home for the same purpose. A telegram was received from Melbourno to-day as follows :— "Mr Coßmo Newbery reports : 42 per cent of antimony; gold equal to 1 oz 12 dwts 16 grains per ton ; no silver. DUNEDIN, Maboh 23. The Tipperary Company at Macetown has sent down a cake of 294 ounces.

For 6000 acres, open on deferred payment, on run 106, Lawrence, there were 110 applicants at Lawronce alone, covering a total area of 30.000 acres. The deposits amounted to over £2000.

To-day being the 34th anniversa y of the foundation of the Province was observed as a general holiday, but the weather took a bad turn in the afternoon.

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AUCKLAND, Maboh 23.

The Serald says .— " Within the last few days Government have discharged three line inspectors on the Auckland railways in a manner which seems harsh and unjustifiable. Messrs Millinger, Beckett, and Alcocks suddenly received notioo that their services were to be dispensed with, being simply informed that tho line was rough and it was thought better there should be a change. We are informed that the line waivery rough in places originally; that tho rails used were never meant for the rate of speed nowYroquently adopted ; and that the permanent way is being gradually improved wherever practicable. The decision as to the state of the line has been come to by men who know nothing of how it was formerly. The men havo all been in the service for many years. Not a word can be said against their characters, and yet they are now ditmissed without warning. It is probable the matter will be brought before Parliament when it meets, so that an inquiry may be made. It is hinted that such changes aro sometimes made because tho higher officers in Wellington aro constantly besieged by office-seekers, and they must occasionally make room for some of them."