TELEGRAPHIC

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7432, 29 November 1892, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC

«, . i [Per Press Association/! COROMANDEL. AUCKLAND, Nov 28. Beeson's Island, Coromandel, has been sold by Mr J. H. Witheford for £1529 to a resident of the Friendly Islands. EFFECTS OF DRINK. FEILDING, Nov. 28. On Saturday afternoon Harry Dunn, a wrestler, jumped off the mail train when near Makino. He ran into the bush and afterwards stripped and put his clothes on the .metals. He waa caught yesterday morning at 4.30, and brought before the Justices and remanded to Wanganui for medical treatment; He was evidently suffering from the effects of drink. ALLEGED ARSON. WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. Aman named William Henry Smith alias Philpot has been committed for trial on charges of arson and breaking and entering at Otaki. It is alleged that he broke into a place and stole £32 10a belonging to the contractor who removed the ship Weathers-eld off the Waikanae beach, and set fire to the building to hide the crime. PRISONERS' AID. DUNEDIN, Nov. 28. At the annual meeting of the Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society the report stated that the income amounted to £423 and the expenditure to £417. Some 450 persons in need had been assisted in variouß ways. GOLD-MINING. The following returns from Mining Companies have been received : — Sew Hoy Biff Beach " Company, 119oz 18_xa of gold; Jutland Flat Company, 220z 15dwt of gold; Upper Waipori Company, 41oz Bdwt4grs gold ; Roxburgh Dredging Company, 12oz ; Ettrick Company, lOoz; United Hercules Company, 330z 19dwt 12grs; Six-mile Beach, 540z 7dwt of amalgam. There is a good deal of activity in gold dredging on the Clutha, near Clyde and Alexandra, and three private parties or syndicates are about getting dredgeß to work there. Fire at Wheatstone!— About noon on Saturday a two-roomed cottage at Wheatstone, owned by Mr P. Hyland, of Flemington, was burned down. The building, which was insured for £65 in the Liverpool and London and Globe Office, was looked at the time. The origin of the fire is not known. Society op Arts.— At a general meeting of the Canterbury Society of Arts, held last night, the legal position of the Society waa taken into consideration, and it wao deemed desirable that it should be reconstituted under a new memorandum and articles of association. A Committee, ; consisting of the members of the present i Council, /was elected to carry this into 'effect and to report to an adjourned general meeting, to ba held on Dec 15. •The Czar's private expenses are £2,000;00p a year. A This is one million and a half more than' RusbiVs annual appropriation for common schools.