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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 5, 25 May 1883, Page 9

News of the Week.

FfiIDAY. The colonial wool sales opened in London on Wednesday. There were a good attendance and fair demand. James Fitzharris has been found guilty of being an accessory to the Phoenix Park murders, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Daniel Delaney and Thomas Martin have confessed, and been sentenced! to death. At a meeting of the Irish National League a resolution was passed protesting against the Pope mixing in politics.— If he has done so, quod ett demonstrandum. In consequence of the defeat of the rebels in Afghanistan, the tribes who hitherto refused to give allegiance to the Ameer are now tendering submission, and it is believed that the pacification of the kingdom will shortly be completed. News received in Auckland states that Mr. Redmond will not arrive here for two months. The Mataura, at Auckland, has filled up with her cargo of frozen mutton. Coleman's Hot Springs Hotel, at Te Aroha, has been burnt down. The boarders had just time to escape. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is £2200, and the insurance £700 in the Victoria, and £410 in the South British. J The Christcburch Gas Company have resolved to reduce the price w A gae to 10s. for lighting purposes, and to Bs. 4d. for cooking and engines ; also to increase the capital by 8000 £5 shares. Four of Mr. Jacobsen's diamonds have been pronounced genuine by two experts from South Africa. The North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association to-day resolved to request the Government to take steps to prevent the introduction of stock diseases to the Colony, by imposing quarantine arrangements of at least two months. J. Louth, accused of embezzlement, has been committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on both counts. The manager of the Elenborough mine at Eaglehawk, Victoria, will be tried for manslaughter in connection with the death of two men who were crushed by a fall of stone in that mine last month. The statement that Mr. Berry intended to proceed to Wellington is incorrect. He has undertaken to write fully to the Government regarding the decision of the Australian Colonies to join the Postal Union. It is stated that a bank manager at Eaglehawk has made nse of £3000 worth of scrip deposited by customers. The name of the manager, however, is withheld. The two youths, Ogden and Sutherland, who were committed for trial for the atrocious murders in Eppping Forest District, have been found guilty and sentenced to death. The reported discovery of a headless corpse at Wart Hill Creek, Teriot, was incorrect. The bones of a man who had died there some years ago, supposed to have perished in the snow, were what was in truth found. Mr. Graham Tawhai, son of the Bay of Islands chief, and who is still very young, has distinguished himself by a speech made by him in admirable English, at a meeting of the Salvation Army in Auckland. The Christchurch Press reports tbat Mr. T. O. Kelsey has taken Home with him 2,200 supposed specimens of diamonds, weighing 15 carats, to be tested. An infernal machine has been discovered at Ballina, and six men have been arrested in connection with the discovery. The Land Leaguers are said to be dismayed at the Pope's circular. Mr. Sexton, M.P., contends it does not apply to the laity, and no doubt so contends correctly if he so contends at all. Tbe Agent-general for Queensland, Mr. Archer, in a letter to the HiTies^denies that the Colony has any desire to enslave the Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea under any form of labour traffic. — That is, we conclude, until their capabilities as labourers have been tested. — The Queensland planters would work an angel, if they could clip his wings. The goldfields escort brought to Dunedin last evening £25,000 worth of gold. The salary of the chairman of Vincent County has been fixed at £150 per annum. A letter was received by the Dunedin Education Board yesterday, informing them that free education in the High School will be given to pupils making over 50 per cent, of marks at the Senior Scholarship Examinations. The Queenstown correspondent of the Cromwell Argus reports > ■}& tobacco grows remarkably well in his district. The Chinese firm of gardeners are thinking of erecting drying-rooms and kilns for its manufacture. The same correspondent says that something like dummyism is suspected at Maori Hillocks, Dart River, where two of Mr. John Butement's shepherds have applied for two {areas of 320 acres each, the runholder, who bad, co far, always opposed the sale of this particular land, favourably consenting. A shipment of Victorian apples has been received in London in good condition. Joseph Mullett and E. M'Caffrey have been found guilty of participation in the Phoenix Park murders, and been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude ; Thomas Doyle received a sentence of five years'; Edward O'Brien, William Moroney. and Daniel Delaney, who pleaded guilty, have each been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The Special Commission for the trial of the Phoenix Park prisoners is now closed. Mr. Marshall's Myrtle won the Derby at the Oamaru coursing meeting to-day ; Mr. Dalgleish's Dead Shot being runner-up. Mr. •Gemmell's Psycho won the All-aged stakes.

In connection with the resent fire At Waihenga Hotel, Edward Tolly has been arrested on a charge of anon. A big fire occurred at Moa Flat Estate last night. Incendiarism is suspected. Three nine-roomed houses belonging to U. and W. Ball, carpenters, Wound road, Sydenham, were burnt down at 4 a.m. to-day. The cause is not known. The houses were insured in the Standard Office for £900, in the Union for £300, in the Norwich for *BCO, and in the Northern for £200. The Halls lived in one of the houses, and their furniture was insured in the New Zealand Company for £400. Another house was occupied by Mr. Kelly, whose furniture was insured in the National Office for £300. The third house was empty. The fire began in Hall's kitchen. Joseph Brady's brother, who was committed for trial on a charge of sending a threatening letter to the foreman of the jury who convicted Brady, has been found not guilty, and discharged from custody. The CronueeU Argus says that the Dunstan Jockey Clnb have found that the horse Pathfinder, otherwise The Joker, was improperly entered for the Grand-stand Handicap at the Clyde Summer Baces, and they award the stakes to the owner of the second horse, who at the time entered protest. They also resolved to disqualify the owner for dishonest practices, from ever entering or running a horse on the Dunstan course, and they also disqualified for ever the horse Pathfinder, late The Joker. A three-roomed cottage in London street, Dunedin, owned by Gordon M'Dowell, and occupied by John Dwyer, caught fire by the upset of a kerosene lamp last night. There was damage done to the amount of about £70. Insurances :— furniture and effects, £160, I building, £75. Mr. J. Simpson, of New Mexico, formerly of Cromwell, writes to the Argut warning settlers against following his example in leaving New Zealand. The climate, he says, is inclement, business at a stand still, work hard, and wages low. There is, however, a fair opening for men with capital. Mr. J. T. Brown's saw-mill, near the gas works, Sydenham, was burned down early this morning. It was insured in the New Zealand Office for £750. The origin of the fire is not known. Saturday. The report of the Comte de Chambord's death has been confirmed, and the Comte de Paris is consequently the representative of the kings of France. It has been decided in Sydney tbat steam engines cannot legally be used on the tramways, where they are the only motors. Six hundred people have joined the Blue Ribbon Army at Christchurch during the week. Since the 10th inst. it is estimated that 454 tons of potatoes have been landed at Auckland from southern ports, and more consignments are coming. Buling prices are £4 10s. to £5 per ton. A man named Thomas Hamilton was killed to-day by a fall of earth at the excavation of the Sugar Company's works at Northcote. Deceased was married only five weeks ago. Shareholders in the Colonial Bank at Napier are incensed at the frequent changes in the managers of the local branch — there having been seven managers during the eight years of its existence. A meeting is to be held on Monday to take the initiatory steps to start a woollen factory in Wellington. It is proposed to form a company with £100,000 capital, in £5 shares. The Aborigines Protection Society urge that New Guinea may be made a Crown colony— animadverting upon the outrages which are alleged to have been committed by the Queensland police upon Natives of tbat colony. Daniel Curley, the second of the Phoenix Park assassins, was executed yesterday. There was an immense crowd of people outside the gaol, and much sympathy with the murderer was expressed. Several officers of the Imperial Guards in Petersburgh have been arrested, charged with being members of a secret revolutionary club. The Evening Star understands that Mr. B. E. N. Twopeny (late editor of the Telegraph, Chriatchurcu) has been appointed to the editorship of the Otago Daily Times, and will assume office in September next. The Tapanui Courier states that the skeleton found at Wart Hill, is conjectured to be that of a man named Bonald Stronach, who was lost in a enow storm in that locality some years ago. A shepherd named John Butcher, who fell into a barrel of carbolic acid about a week ago at Cottesbrook Station, Strath Taieri, died this morning in the Dunedin hospital. The number of persons relieved by the Committee of the Dunedin Benevolent Institution for tbe week ending 19th May was 675 — viz., 41 men, 170 women, and 464 children, the outlay being £65 8s exclusive of coal, clothing, etc. The number in the institution is 95— viz., 53 men, 13 women, and 29 children. Ml the single men and women by the Westmeatb fonnd employment at Auckland. Many ot tbe Bangitikei's passengers were also engaged. A petition will be forthwith lodged agaidst the election of Mr. Edward Shaw for Jnangatraa. Four grounds are alleged. The Wellington correspondent of one of our daily contemporaries hints at the probability of Mr. Bryce proceeding to England for the purpose of prosecuting Mr. Busden, author of the " History of New Zealand," in which Mr. Bryce is so badly slandered, for criminal libel. A five roomed house, St. Asaph street, Christchurch, owned and occupied by Mr. Alfred Buckley, was burnt down at half-past 8 last night. It was insured in tbe National Office for £600. The Southern Jtree Press states that on Thursday two labourers at work on Mr. J. Hoffman's county road contract, near Mr. M'Pherson's, Chatton, were buried by a fall of gravel. One of them, named Hefikie, a German, was conveyed to his own home ; the other, Michael Walsh, was brought to Gore, and conveyed to the Inveroargill Hospital by the afternoon express. He appeared to suffer severely on being carried into the train.

A post-office, with all the et cetera* will be opened at Macandrew Road, South Dunedin, on Monday. At the Marton-Rangitikei Steeplechase meeting, held at Bulls yesterday, Lady Bab won the Maiden Steeplechase, Ueform the York Farm Steeplechase, Abolition the Consolatio 1 Stakes, and Bata the Marton-Bangitikei Handicap. A man named Henneley, suspected of horse stealing in November last, escaped from a train going full speed between Middleton and Addington, on Thuisday,— Detective O'Connor jumping out after him. He has uot yet baen f >und. A limited liability company •will be formed to conduct the ironsand works at Onehunga. Mr. O. P. Eeogh, of Moa Flat, has let lands for cropping for a term of years as follows :— Messrs. M. McCarthy, 600 acres ; J. O'Brien, 400 ; A. Barron, 640 ; B. Oaffell, 600 ; T. Wilkins, 200 ; O. M'Donald, 303 ; and D. H«ugh, 400. Another fire, resulting in the destruction of about 1,000 bushels of oats, occurred on the farm of Mr. John Finlay, Crookston, last Thursday morning, sayß the Tnwpeka Times. The oats were in bags in the paddock. They were seen to be all right by Mrs. Finlay, who was up at the time, shortly before four o'clock in the morning ; but a ; little after four a man named Anderson, who had been sleeping in the barn and who had seen the glare of light from the fire, came and reported the matter to Mrs. Finlay. About fifty bags were saved by being dragged away before the flames had caught them. The grain, | we learn, was uninsured, and the loss, which is estimated at £125, I will fall heavily on Mr. Finlay, the owner, who is at present an inmate of the local hospital, suffering from a broken leg. Constable Greene, who visited the scene of the fire, found no suspicious circumstances attaching, and no clue as to the origia of the fire has been discovered. The guard's van of the Kaipara train was jerked off the rails at ?jppbend in the railway yesterday, but no serious results followed. The Premier has given the following reply to a deputation of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce :— l. Railways. — A large supply of additional rolling-stock has been ordered Borne time ago, and part of it is now in course of arrival. 2. The non-political management of railways is still under consideration of the Cabinet, and a decision will be come to before the session, and either a bill will be introduced or the reason given early in the session why the Government cannot propose such a measure. 3. Inspection of Machinery.— The railway machinery is inspected by proper officers as carefully as is done in the case of machinery owned by private persons, if not more so. 4. The other suggestions made by the deputation Lave been specially brought under the consideration of the Railway Department. 11. San Francisco Mail Service. The negotiations are concluded. An answer from the Company accepting the final propositions of the two Colonies of New Zealand and New South Wales was received to-day. 111. Minister of Agriculture.— The Government will propose to the Assembly that provision be made for a Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Bowron has been appointed to impart information in reference to the manufacture of cheese, butter, and bacon, and is now at work. The appointment of an inspector to " grade " wheat exported appears at present premature. IV. Bankruptcy. — A bill dealing with this question has been prepared and will be introduced early in the session. Monday. At a meeting held in Invercargill, on Saturday, it was resolved that the Farmers' Co-operative Association should be wound up and reorganised under the Joint Stock Companies' Act as the Southland Farmers' Grain and Produce Export Company (Limited) ; the capital to be £50,000, in shares of £5 each. A correspondent of the Thames Advertiser states that the brother of the late Mr. Costley is about to take steps to upset his will. The funeral of the late Mr.. Rutherford, M.H.R., took place at Kaitangata on Saturday, and was largely attended. The Dunttan Times says that McQueen's big iron dredge at Alexandra has again got fairly to work, and is on splendid gold. Scott's dredge has shifted her position, and is now just above the bridge. The gold she is getting is of a very coarse character, some of the pieces being fully 2dwt. Amongst the stuff dredged is a quantity of cinnabar ore, and, strange to say, at nearly every wash-ing-down of the sluice-boxes more or less quick silver is obtained. The manager has got fully 4oz. of quicksilver, and he has been only on the ground about a week. The Evening Post's correspondent at Nelson telegraphs : — " Mr. Shaw has just returned from Reef ton. He says the petition against his election is all bunkum." A young man named Edward Darling, a station hand, was killed at Teani on Monday by a fall from his horse. Hennelly, accused of horse-stealing, and who jumped from a train at full speed, has been retaken. He was not hurt. A cyclone passed over the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. Many lives were lost and much damage done to property by the storm . It is believed that the Pope's recent decisive action in reference to Irish affairs is due to the instigation of Mr. Errington, M.P., and Cardinals Manning and McCabe. The clergy in Ireland tacitly acquiesce in the decision of his Holiness, but the leaders of the Land League assume an attitude of defiance. — Our readers will, of course; understand that we must wait for the Irish papers to learn what the Pope's encyclical really has contained. It is not likely his Holiness has been guided by Mr. Errington, hirasilf an arch-evicter, and deservedly condmned by all Irishmen throughout the world, and Cardinal Manning is known all along to have sympathised with the Irish movement. The Wcnganui Herald says that a native named Uru te Angina, resident at Parihaka, has set up as a healer a la Milner Stephen, and scores of Natives are visiting him to be cured. The Western, Star says that the Orepuki Coal and Shale Company are supplying the Caversham Gasworks- with five tons of Bhale, with a view to testing its suitability for gas-producing purposes.

The Papanui Town Hall, built about two years ago, has been sold for £1075, not half the cost price. At a meeting at Cbristchurch of shareholders in the Diamond Company, it has been resolved to apply for a lease of 600 acres already secured by miner's rights for six months. We hear, says the Wakatipu Mail, that landholders and the Government are very busy just now poisoning rabbits throughout the district, and, as a consequence, the rabbitskin industry is thriving remarkably well and many hands are employed collecting skins. Amongst others employed in destroying the ipest, we are informed that eighteen men are employed by Government on the Upper Shotover country (but they will be removed to Bushy Creek next week), at Mount Nicholas there are 14, en another run at Wanaka there are 34, and at Mount Pisa station no less thanforty hands in full work. The accounts of W. Cuthbert, late treasurer and secretary of the Longbeach Road Board, Canterbury, show defalcations amounting to about £400. The Board have taken steps regarding his fidelity policy, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Thefirstfraces of the Auckland Bicycle Club took place on Saturday at the Domain Cricket-ground, when 1500 persons were present. The Slow Race, of 100 yards, wasjwon by K. Service. The Club Championship, five miles was won by Wm. Service ; P. Llewellyn, 2 ; Fitton, 3 ; —time 20f minutes. Fancy Riding.— Nears, 1; Fitton, 2. Open Handicap, one mile. — F. Llewellyn (scratch) 1 ; Ashton (160 yards), 2 ; Bottle (100 jards), 3 ;— time, 3§ minutes. Mounting and dismounting, half-mile.— F. Llewellyn, 1 ; Nears, 2 ;— time,2J minutes. Consolation Handicap, one mile.— Allen, 1 ; F. Waites, 2. The events were well contested, especially the Championship and the Consolation. By the outgoing mail, nominations for 604 immigrants, equal to 519 adults, will be sent Home ; the total amount received on whose account is £1809 2s. Since the resumption of immigration, nominations for 6584 souls, equivalent to 6813 adults, have been forwarded Home ; and the amount received has been £183,000 15s. 9d. Of these nominations, 2573 have been for English, 2365 for Irish, 1638 for Scotch, and 173 foreign ; while the single men number 1429, and the single women 2254. A Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into the management of the Dunedin Gaol. One of its members being Mr. O. Curtis, M.H.R., and the other a southern magistrate who has not been, in any capacity, connected with the Gaol. There is a dispute between the Auckland Board of Education and the Grafton School Committee about the appointment of a teacher. The committee deßire to have one Mr. Richard Talbot, against whom grave charges have been made, appointed in place of Mr. Healy, 8.A., chosen by the Inspector. The Pope has issued circulars to all the Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland, commanding them to forbid the congregations under their charge from subscribing towards the Parnell fund. — This is an absurd statement. Neither Pope nor bishops would dream of doing anything of the kind, which would be quite outside their province.^ The attempt of the Colonial Press to injure Mr. Redmond's mission in this way is idiotic. Charles Marison, lately married, twenty-four years of age, and in comfortable circumstances, drowned himself in the Manawatu river on Saturday, having written to explain to his wife, at Sandon, that he had a heavy weight on his mind. Dr. Croke, Raman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, who was summoned to Rome for the purpose of holding a conference with the Pope on affairs in Ireland, is returning, his visit having terminated somewhat abruptly. — We do not suppose it terminated a bit abruptly. It iB intended to send Kavanagh, James Smith, O'Hanlon, and Peter Carey, the approvers in the Phoenix Park murder cases, to Australia.— Just as we said. James Carey, however, is apparently to have private appartments and a suite of attendants at the Castle. The Grey mouth correspondent of the Oamaru Mail telegraphs that Mr. Wakefield's friends are reticent as to the exact grounds of the petition against Mr. Shaw's election, but the impression is that they are impersonation on an extraordinary scale, as well as other contraventions of the Act. More will be known in a day or two. In consequence of evidence recently obtained in connection with the inquiry into other crimes, the Irish police have arrested seven men on a charge of having been concerned in the murder of Mrs. Henry J. Smith, who was shot dead, near Bat-barilla House, County Weatmeath, on April 2, 1882, while driving home from church in a carriage in company with Mr. Barlow Smythe, her brother-in-law, and Lady Henrietta Monck. The Southland Times says that the following telegram has been received from Major Atkinson by Mr. J. P. Joyce, M.H.R., in answer to his communication asking if the Government could do anything for the workmen defrauded out of their wages by the absconding contractor, Matthew L. Bennett :— " Regret the delay in replying to your telegram in reference to the position of Bennett's contract. I find there are no funds available for the payment of wages due by the late contractor. The contract having been re-let at the risk oc his sureties it is impossible to tell, until the work is completed, whether any moneys will be available or not. I much regret the hardship to which the workmen have been put through working for a dishonest contractor." . The police yesterday visited the various hairdressing and tobacconists' shops at Wellington, ordering them to close their premises. It is understood that this action has been taken under an English Act of Charles 11., which provides "that no person shall follow their ordinary vocation on the Sabbath unless for cuanty or in case of necessity." The police will prosecute any shops open next Major Withers, Officer-in-charge of the Auckland Volunteers, died on Saturday of bronchitis. He was seventy-six years of age, and arrived at the Bay of Islands in 1847 with his regiment, the 65tb, being then color-sergeant and pay-sergeant. A Mr. Shippington, lately arrived in the Colony, has been robbed of £ 1,500 worth of jewellery either at Wellington, at Faikoura i or on board the b,bV Wakatu,

A reply has Ceays the Western Star) been received by Mr. Boniface, of Riverton, as to the' terms upon which a sculling match can be arranged between the New Zealand champion Hearn and G. Harrington, of that town. The terms are that the stakes be £100 a side ; that £20 expenses be paid on either side to the visiting man ; and that the course be three miles and a-half. Harrington has some very enthusiastic supporters, and there seems but little doubt that satisfactory arrangements will be made to ensure the match coming off. Tuesday. Mr. George Cliff, who was for many years Mayor of Timaru and a leading citizen, was yesterday presented with a purse of sovereigns en the eve of Mb departure for Taranaki The Emperor and Empress of Russia, with their family, have arrived for their coronation at Moscow, where they have received an enthusiastic welcome. Sixty-three people were killed by the recent cyclone in the United States. I Tynan, who is now in New York, and who is alleged to be implicated in the Phoenix Park and other murders committed by the Dublin " inner circle," has offered to surrender himself, if required, to the British authorities. It is suspected that there is a youth in Dunedin who has devoted himself to the destruction of bicyclists. He spilled two of them at the Oval on Saturday night, and is supposed to be the same individual who a little time ago placed a rail across the path to upset them. May he meet his deserts in due course. Mr. Bradlaugh is organising a monster meeting to be held in s#&falgar Square on August 6th. The capital sentence passed on Patrick Delaney, who confessed to complicity in the Phoenix Park murders, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. Typhoid fever is prevalent in Victoria. 100 cases have occurred at dunes, but without fatal results. J. Bourke, of the telegraph-office, Russell, rescued a Maori child by jumping off the .wharf and diving for it. . Colonel Lyon has been appointed to succeed Major Withers as officer commanding the Auckland Volunteers. An inquest was held yesterday at Auckland oh the body of T. Hamilton, who was killed by a fall of earth at the Sugar Company's works. A verdict of " Accidental death " was returned. Deceased had just left the Parnell drainage works, as he regarded the work as dangerous. The body of Matthew Clough, who was drowned a week ago while crossing the Mongonui River, was recovered on Sunday morn- 1 , ing. Two divers were engaged in the work, which was rendered extremely dangerous in consequence of the quicksands. At the inquest the verdict was " Accidentally drowned." A man named James Thompson has been found dead in a survey'". camp at Waiau, Coromandel. It is believed he died from heart-^ disease. The friends of Mr. Thomas Allan are about to make him a presentation, as a recognition of his action in bringing such charges before the Dunedin City Council, re the ex-town clerk, as placed them in a position to discover his delinquencies. The Captain of the Salvation Army was very roughly treated by 600 or 700 larrikins at Cbristchurch on Sunday. He says that not even among the roughs of the East End of London has he seen anything like their conduct. In compliance with the request of a deputation, the Dunedin School Committee have granted the use of the school buildings, for religious instruction, from 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m., on five days of the week. — Let us hope the half-hour Christians will do credit to their various sects. A trial was made on Saturday night at Lyttelton Harbour of the electric light. The moon was, however, unfavourable to the trial, \- The Dunedin School Committee have passed a resolution* making 1 attendance at a public school compulsory on the children of the Juvevile Opera Company now in Dunedin. The subscriptions to the Parnell fund are increasing largely, r Archbishop Croke has, since his return from Rome, taken occasion to assert that his political sympathies are not changed. A Bill has been prepared to legalise the use of steam motors on tramways in Sydney. There was another animated meeting on the gas question held last evening at South Dunedin,— -Or. Clarke declaring that he meant to protest until he was " blue in the face," at which Or. .Carey drew the attention of the Mayor to that gentlemen, fearing that he had " gone wrong." At a meeting of influential citizens held yesterday at Wellington the establishment of the Wellington Woollen Manufactory Company, 1 Limited, with a capital of £100,000 in £5 shares, was resolved upon. The following gentlemen were elected to the provisional directory :— Messrs. G. R. Johnson, M.L.C., W. H. Levin, W. Hutchison, and C. J. Johnson, M.H.R.B, and Jacob Joßeph, James Smith, and J. B. Harcourt. The Blue Ribbon mission at Christchurch closed last night. Eight hundred and nine persons have taken the pledge since its commencement. Mr. Isles, manager of the South Pacific Petroleum Company reports that the bore was down on Friday 160 feet, going well through tub soft sandstone. Shares are tight at 4 s., paid-up shares being quoted at Bs. 6d. Messrs. Sydney James and John C. Morris were re-elected to-day city auditors for Dunedin, for the ensuing year. A young man named John Tomlinson, whose knee got jammed and severely lacerated while he was uncoupling a railway waggon on Saturday, so that his leg had to be amputated, died last night in the Invercargill Hospital. At a meeting of ,the Invercargill Jockey Club yesterday the receipts from the last races were shown to be £525, and the expenditure £348, leaving a balance of £177.

His' Excellency the Governor formally opened' the Auckland University Fast night, at the Choral Hall, by an inaugural address. The Governor of Massachusetts has ■ appealed to President Arthur, urging him to adopt immediate measures for the prevention of the indiscriminate immigration which is now going on. French troops have been sent to support De Brazza on the Congo, at which the Natives and Portuguese residents are said to be displeased. It is officially reported that Russia has commenced to fortify the Palish frontier. Wednesday. . The Opawa, being loaded with meat at the Bluff, will also take' Home 1000 dozen frozen oysters. The North Otago Times reports that the coursing clubs of the district mean to {i suppress " a certain sportsman who courses wilh from Bto 15 dogs. ' Cr. Clark, of South Dunedin, pursues his anti-gas demonstration in the columns of the Otago Daily Times— hoping, perhaps, to write out the blueness that he has talked into his face, and'which, probably/ the broad light >of day has shown him |,to be unbecoming when mixed with the natural hue of his complexion. He ■ denounces dreadful things against the Mayor for declaring the monopoly resolution carried, but do«s not favour the public with an example of the strong epithets which le says are " freely indulged in."— By the way, what was that old saying at Home ? " Orange and blue is loyal and true." , Mr. MacDermott has written to the Argus .contradicting the report of his address to the Brunswick Bench. He says : "My statement, which I know to be correct, had manifest reference to magisterial appointments generally, and not to the Brunswick I Justices. I know nothing of the latter." A fire broke out at 4.30 o'clock yesterday morning in the. premise! *< of Clifford, herbalist, Auckland. It is supposed to have originated in the consulting-room, among chemicals. The stock, was insured for £200 in the Colonial, but the loss over that is £100.' The tender of F. Morgan, of Benmore, has been accepted for Lumsden-Mara'roa branch permanent way contract. — Amount, £1172.' An official enqiry has been held at Auckland by the Collector of the Customs and Captain Fraser, nautical assessor, as to the "abandonment of the Schooner May Agatha,, the crew of which were picked up by the ship Rangitikei. The evidence of Robert Owens, master of the May Agatha, showed that the vessel was .dismasted. As there was two and a" half tons of dynamite on- board, there was a risk of an explosion. The vessel could not float' 24 hours after her abandonment. She was insured in the Port Maddock Insurance 'Company, for £2000 and was valued at £2500. The master could not tell the Value of the cargo, which was consigned to order. - Great preparations are being made by the Natives at Tauranga to give Tawhiao a royal reception. He will be presented with £900 in notes, as well as with mats and curiosities worth £600. The Marquis of Lansdown is to succeed the Marquis of Lome as Governor-General of Canada. Work has been resumed at the Milton Pottery Works, and the Bruce Herald speaks highly of the new management. Mr. Creighton, agent for the ' New Zealand Government,: haa completed arrangements with the United: States Government for the continuance of the Pacific mail service, and expresses himself confident that the New Zealand Government will ratify his action. Deferred-payment settlers owing the instalments of rent now due, and whose first three years of tenancy have expired, are warned to have their arrears capitalised before June 15, under penalty of the forfeiture of their licenses.