TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 2072, 19 January 1883, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PEB UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION".) G-REYMOUTH. January 10 The s.s. St. Kilda was towed in this morning. The damage consists of the combustion box having fallen in, aud it is expected that repairs will occupy a fortnight. .OHRISrcHURCH January 10 A rumor is current that Messrs Robinson and Lance intend to proceed against the stewards of the C J. Summer Race Meeting for the recovery of stakes of the Midsummer Two Tear Old Handicap, on the ground that they were improperly awarded to the owners of Helena The Handicap was a sweepstake of 10 sovs. each with £2OO added, January 17 The Rev. Eraser, who wasyesterdav cited before the Presbytery, failed to appear. He was deposed, and a committee appointed to confer with the congregation as to his successor. Further deficincies have been discovered in the Kaiapoi Muuicipal accounts. All books relating to the Dog Tax Account are missing, except one, which shows receipts to the amount of £4O 10s for the first half of 1882, while the cash book aud ledger give the receipts for that period at only £37. The Harbor Board have given their engineer, Mr Napier Bell, a present of £250, in recognition of his services in connection with the dock. The Board are favorable to the establishment of a Humane Society for the colony. The Board are going to distribute two hundred photos of the opening ceremony, as a meaus of ad vertising the dock. A tender has been lot for the Sailors' Home at Lyttelton, to cost £2400. January 18 Charles H. Nelson, master of the American barque Mount Lebon, was fined £2O and costs yesterday for harboring deserters from two vessels in port. The mate it appeared took them on board without the captain's knowledge, but the other man states that he spoke to Nelson himself, who promised to give him passage to Newcastle.

DUSEDIN January 10 A man named W. E. G. Heath was arrested yesterday on a charge of committing a criminal assault on Lucy Brown, aged 8 years, at West Taieri, on the 23rd instant. He was brought

up at the City Police Ootirt ia the afternoon. "' A man named Benley, for a s'milar offence committed on a girl twelve years of age, near the Botanical Gardens, has been committed for trial. This afternoon two lads employed in a butcher's shop, at Port Chalmers, j had a quarrell over a knife and the dispute ended in one named driving a knife through the thigh, ofthe other, named Harnock. White was arrested and he expresses sorrow for his hasty action. January 17 The boy White, who stabbed his companion in a butcher's shop at Port Chalmers, has been remanded. January 18 Wm. Foreshaw, who yesterday pleaded guilty to two indictments of stealing sewing machines, was sentenced to six months for each charge, to run concur rently. It is stated that the prisoner was the tool of a gang cf men, who,, by misrepresentation, got possession of machines let out on hire, and against whom proceedings will also be taken. TIMAPvU. January 18. The heat yesterday morning and afternoon was most intense, the thermometer at one lime registering 150 degrees in the sun Several cases of sunstroke are reported, one being fatal. In one case a man named Sullivan, belonging to Oamaru, was stricken down in a harvest field at Makaka, and was carried to the hospital, where he is in an unconscious slate. In a second case a young man named David Hutchison, who was working in a field at Tkeo Flat, was struck down, and died in a few minutes A number of minor cases are reported An old man named " Yankee Sam" fell into a tire at Waihi Bush and was seriously burned. His life is considered in danger. OAMARU. January 18. A Dairy Factory Company has been successfully floated here and as soon as the necessary buildings can be erected • aerations will be commenced

The Woollen Factory has accepted a tenders for the erection of a suitable building, and it is calculated that within six months the Company, will be able to place their manufactures in the market.

WELLINGTON January 11 Gamble, the Auckland ageut of the Pacific Mail Company, and Ormstead, special agent sent from America to make arrangements relative to- the renewal of the .San Francisco ' Mail contract, arrived by the Ringarooma this morning. They will have an inter view to-morrow with the Premier and the Postmaster-General, but it is understood that a defiuite agreement cannot be come to until views of the New South Wales Govt, are distinctly pro nounced as the matter must largely depend on the action of that Colony. New South Wales objects to loss of time experienced in deviating to Auckland, and it is probable that the substitution of Russell as port of call will be strongly urged on the New Zealand Government. The m;m Casey, who met with a serious accident a few days ago whilst working at Kaiwara, is still lying at the Hospital The poor fellow's head is said to bo badly injured by the boulder which fell upon it. George Alston, an apprentice belonging to the ship Lady Jocelyn, met with a rather nasty accident ou board that vessel. He was unconsciously moving about in the freezing room, which is in a constant state of darkness, when he suddenly toppled over the hatchway, a distance of 10 or 12 feet, lauding on some rouga stone ballast, He was much cut about the head and upper lip. In the course of his sermon at St. Marv's Church, last Sunday, the Rev. Coffey preached from the 9th verse of Eight Chapter of Acts, and referred in strong terms of condeuioation to the positiou taken up by Mr Milner Stephens with regard to his alleged powers of healing, and argued that while that gentleman mentioned persisted in attributing possession ol his gift as direct from God, for the good of man and for any special Godly service, he put himself in the position of prophets and apostles, whose gilt of power co work miracles was credential, proving them to be messengers of God, for the exercise of which they dared not, and did not, receive money, and Mr Milner Stephen dare hot take money for the cl this gift (if it be a gift) without putting himself iu the position of Simon, and all who countenanced him by their presence were wholly guilty. The Rev. Mr Coffey mentioned that a number of persons had asked him to certify that they were not in a position to pay the fee demanded by Mr Stephen, namely, 100 guineas, and said he thought such a chargo wi-uld amount in a year to at least £IO,OOO. Rather a grand price for a gift which Mr Stephen asserted had been bestowed upon him for the benefit of humanity at large, while the manner of receiving it freely was to the poor rather a humiliating way of deriving benefit from God's gift. January 16 At the Magistrate's Court to day. Knigge*, proprict ir of the Brunswick Hotel, was fiued £lO and £2 costs on a charge of adulterating beer with sulphuric acid. From the evidence it appeared that there was no intention to adulterate, but that the jar in '

Which'' the beer- jrtut J sold' hak'prevr ously contained sulphuric acid.' "It in* probable that a oH Sunday trading 'will emanate from this case.

. ; Januiry \T The Supreme Court criminal sittings opened this morning. The Judge's charge to the Grand Jury lasted'bn'y two minutes. He congratulated.fchetn, on the lightness of tbe calendar, there being: no cnsos or" a serious character. A true bill was found againqt. Hepry Freeman, housebreaking, and the trial is proceeding. True bills were .found against Sarah Parnel I, . wounding ;, Julia Ahearne, ?attempted.:/, suicide ; Peter Walsh; attempted lai-qeny,/ No . bill was found against Auir.e, (alias Mary) Brown, larceny • frpm tbe person. January 18 Information has been received here from Collingwood that. ■ the \Go'den. nidge had cleaned up one hundred and sixty- two ounces of' .retorted gold from seventy tpW of quartz. .A dividendl of. 6d per share "has' Seen declared.'. The mine is reported to be looking, well. Messrs Gamble' and 6rm stead, the representatives of the Pacific Mail Cempariy, had an interview \vith 'the Premier this morning regarding the 'mail service. Nothing, however, can, be done until it is ascertained whether the New South Wales Government are willing to commence negotiations A cable has been sent to the latter asking what they intend to do in the matter. At the Supreme Court, to-day, Sarah Gurnell, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment ton a charge of wounding The sittings have been ad journed until . Tuesday, when c the charge against Morrison for horse stealing will be heard '"': .>j The ship Parerba, Captain Power, 91 days from London,- arrived this morning.

NAPIER. January 18. The Jockey Club has endorsed the disqualication of Wm. Atkin's jockey of the Laird, for "pulling" at the Onga Onga races The disqualification of Wm. Aikin's trainer, and, the , Laird has ; been deferred, pending the receipt of evidence. A girl of- fifteen, named' Minnie Thomas, was drowned yesterday while bathing in the ..A young lady of twelve stripped and tried to save her but nearly :k>st f her own life.

AUCKLAND 7 '' •'• ' ; January 1G Sergeant Maiten and Detective Stratbearu continued their search in the steamer' -Wellington for the plant of the late jewellery robbery on board that vessel. Further deposits were discovered ?n the bilge water in the shaft tuunel. There is still £3OO worth undiscovered. January 17 The quarterly session of the Supreme Court opened to-day. Judge Gillies, in his charge to the Grand Jury, stated that 37 prisoners were charged with 39 offences, and re marked on tbe increase of crime in tbe district, which he found it difficult to account for. It was a singular fact that when one or two crimes of a particular character happened in the district others followed. He had no doubt the sensational accounts m the newspapers had something to do with it. Such reports' had ; a pernicious effect on young persons and those of an emotional temperament. ".'Referring to the Hamilton- murder case, he said, that while the Magistrate did right in committing the prisoners on the evidence, the Grand Jury would have to be satisfied'that the evidence was sufficient to warrant them in believing the prisoners guilty before finding true bill. They could take ho cognisance of any intention to produce further evidence, however serious the case or strong the suspicion of guilt might be. January 18 The Union Sash and Door Company's annual balaucetsheet shews a profit of £28,313, which with balance, leaves £33,130 available for. divideud. The dividend is equal to £0 per cent per annum, and is payable on February Ist. WANGANUI January 18 A little boy named John Brogan, 8 years old, while fisning off Rockley Side, fell into 30 feet of water and was drowned.