TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Western Star, Issue 282, 1 February 1879, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Friday. The Rev. Mr Fifchett, formerly Wesleyan Minister, who resigned rather than leave Dunedin in accordance with the circuit arrangements, having been duly ordained to the Episcopal priesihood, preaches for the first time at St. Paul’s on Sunday. At .he Citv Police Court to-day a man named Frank South, who has been several times arrested for drunkenness and who declares himself to be of unsound mind, was sent to gaol for three months for habitual drunkenness, after kicking, hauling, and tearing down his shirt. The Attorney-General is criticised in the “ Herald ” for presiding at Charles Bright’s (the free thinker) farewell soiree last evening. The Mayor, who was also present, comes in for a share of the abuse. The “ Herald ” says it abhors the teaching of Bright as it does the devil and all his works.

quarryman named Mead hid both his legs fractured at Anderson’s Bay this afternoon by a piece of stone falling on him from the top of the quarry. Christchurch, Friday. At the meeting of the Board of Governors held last night the Chairman stated that 5000 acres had been received as an endowment for the Medical School.

A public meeting to take steps to aid sufferers by the Glasgow Bank failure will probably be held on Wednesday evening next. The Return a, from Melbourne, brought the first specimen of Chinese woolien cloth. It is hoped to establish eventually a market in China for these gootls. At a meeting of the Canterbury Rifle Association yesterday an accident happened to one of the buglers, by a leaf of one of the targets falling on him. A boarding-house iu Sydeniiam was burnt to the ground last night, and two adjacent cottages. The cause of fire is unknown.

A heavy south west gale was raging all day yesterday, but this abated somewhat to-div.

Mrs Fitzgerald, the owner of the boarding house burnt down, was insured £3lO on furniture. The house was also insured. She puts her loss at £SOO. Sixteen cases of typhod fever have occurred in Christchurch since Jau. 17.