COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 3098, 9 April 1878, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

[special to the herald.]

THE PATEA HARBOUR BOARD.

Patea, April D.

The new Harbour Board assembled yesterday. Mr Sherwood was unanimously re-blected chairman. The plans of a new wharf and a largo store prepared for the Board. The local steam company will float.

[per press agency. I Wellington, April 8.

The following tenders have been received at the Public Works office for the Carterton contract of the WellingtonMasterton railway: — Accepted : Richard Dixon, Auckland, £51,954. Declined : J. Jay, Wellington, £53,501 ; A. Tawsc, Wellington, £54,657 ; H. Reid & Co., Dunedin, £59,587 ; Davier, & Co., Wellington, £59,747 ; W. Stocks, Christchurch, £59,879 ; D. Fallon, Auckland, £61,182 ; M. Laice, Christchurch, £62,192 ; Denby & Rowe, Wanganui, £62,499 ; E. O'Malley, Wellington, £63,997 ; Collie, Scott and Co., Wellington, £65,467; Loclde and Dunn, Wellington, £67,076 ; Taylor and Dennaher, Auckland, £67,322 ; Proudfoot and McKay, Dunedin, £67,800 ; J. Brown, Wellington, £71,000 ; D. Ross, Auckland, £73,607 ; Topham and Angus, Invercargill, £77,018 ; Scoular and Archibald, Wellington, £81,072. Mr Crawford, Resident Magistrate, has demanded from the Government that an inquiry be made into the charges made by Mr Gr. S. Barton against the officials of the R.M. Court. The application was sent on Saturday.

A fire occurred on the Terrace this afternoon in -a house which is insured for £600 in the Standard office, and the furniture for £350 in the South British. The furniture was partly saved. Damage to house, £100. In consequence of the protracted drought the water is becoming short. The Primitive Methodist Church was j broken into on' Saturday or Sunday night, and the mission boxes robbed. Mrs Brewer, whose husband died a few days ago, made a statement in the R.M. Court to-day to the effect that she believed her husband died in consequence of the inefficient treatment of the two medical men who attended him. She says her husband would have lived had he Tseen attended to properly. It is said that an order has been given to exhume the body. The following are the insurances on the sawmill recently burned at Carterton : — National, £200 on building and £400 on machinery, £200 of which was reinsured in the £outh British, and ,£l5O with the Phoenix. April 9.' In the Supreme Court this morning Mr Barton obtained leave to postpone his motion for an attachment against the Argus proprietary at the suit of E. T. Gillon. The cases comes on again Friday next. New Plymouth, April 8. The Harbour Board to-day appointed

the Bank of iS r ew Zealand as its agent to raise a loan.

Christchurch, April 8.

In reply to enquiry, the Lyttelton Harbour Board received a telegram from, tho Government to the effect that no warning had been received from Home to protect the harbours of the colony. A man named O'Leary reported to the police that he was garrotted early on Sunday morning, and rubbed of about £10.

About two o'clock on Sunday morning a cab driver was stuck up near the river Styx, North Road, by two men, but giving his horse a vigorous cut with a whip, he managed to escape.

April 9.

Tho Tramway Co.'s share list closed with sufficient applications to justify them to commence operations. Subscriptions are being raised to pay the Primate's expenses of attending the Lambeth Conference.

A man named " German Charlie" has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the recent garrotting ease. David Adams, of Mount Hastings, had 2,000 bushels of oats destroyed by an incendiary fire.

Auckland, April 8.

. Mr Alfred Porter's house narrowly escaped destruction by fire this morning through the servant placing a pan of hot ashes near tho water closet.

Sir George Grey and the Hon. Mr Sheehan proceed to Waikato to-morrow. They will be entertained at a banquet at Hamilton by settlers. The Hon. Col. Whitmorc will be replaced by the Hon. Mr Fisher.

Five boys bolted from the training school on Saturday. The -meeting between Sir Geo. Grey and the Maori King will be held on the 16th inst. at Hikurangi. Several tons of flour have gone up, and the meeting is expected to be large and important.

The Hon. Mr Sheehan has ordered a re-hearing in the 4 case of the Poutou block, in consequence of a statement made by a native prisoner named Ringi, who is uhderarrest for horse stealing.

The Government have ordered search to be made at Tauranga for the body of Potia, who was supposed to have been drowned therein August 1876, is Bingi told his fellow prisoners that it did not matter about his having killed Potia, as ho had suffered punishment .for it. He said he killed Potia with a heavy piece of iron, in a boat, and then tied the iron to the body. John Henon Lamfra, employed in Crowthcr's stable, fell from a loft, a distance of 14 feet. He sustained concussion of the brain, and died in a few hours. An inquest was held to-day, and • a verdict ; of accidental death returned. , ' ' Blenheim, April 8. The census returns give Blenheim 873 males and 817 females. In 1874 the population wbs 494 males and 441 ■ , females. Increase, 757. i-^.The population of Pictonin 1874 was 393 males .and 339 females. - There are now 351 finales 'and 357 females. .Decrease 24. Province-r-In 1874, 6,144 ; now, 7,55&. : Dunedin, April 8. Yesterday Bihhop Moran delivered a discourse on the marriage question. He explained that marriages by a registrar, though sinful, and carrying with them tho -penalty of excommunication in the case of Catholics, yet were valid, and no power on earth could dissolve them.