TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 956, 30 May 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

1 [pee PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] New Zealand Land Companies. t Auckland, To-dsy. i Wahanui, Taonui, and other leading • Kingite, chiefs hold aloof from the East f Coast Land Company. Nows has been ’ received by the mail that a projected 1 London Company will amalgamate with 1 the New Zealand Land Company. Earl 1 Shaftesbury, and the Bishops of London, I Liverpool, and St. Asaph are said to be 1 amongst those interested in the London 1 Company. A False Accusation. The report of the Commission of Enquiry into the charges made against the master, Mr G. P. Hogan, by several female inmates entirely exonerates him. 1 A Disaster. Gisbobnb, To-day. ; Whilst towing a punt at Tologa Bay on [ Sunday, containing goods from on board ’ the schooner Gisborne, a struck i on the bar and swamped goods valued at L LSOO. The boat went down. A Maori Bella Tua Nihoiho, on behalf of the Noatipirau, presented a greenstone patu to His Excellency. T his relic had been handed 1 down for twenty generations. Fire. 1 Dunedin, To-day. Aynsley’s Mosgiel Hotel was burnt ; down last evening. Immediately after ■ the fire George Cardozo was missing, and his trunk was found among the ashes. s The fire is said to have been due to the bursting of a kerosene lamp. The insnr- ; ances are—Liverpool, London, and Globe, L 1,400 on the hotel, L7OO on the stock and furniture. The Standard had a risk of L1&0 on Brown’s., the adjoining shop, which was pulled down to prevent the spread of the jflames. Half of the Liverpool’s risk was re-insured in the HamburgMagdeburg Company. Laud in Otago. Nine sections were taken up under the perpetual leasing system, at prices ranging from LI 12s to L 7 6s per acre. Escaped from Gaol. Charles Vickers, sentenced to five yean last session, effected his escape from gaol this morning. Two hours afterwards he called at the residence of a. Mornington settler and, threatening to shoot a Mn Warrington, got a change of clothing there. The police are in pursuit. Licensing. The Licensing Commissioners are making a personal inspection of all the city houses. The Staff of Life. This city bakers will raise the price of bread from the Ist prox. A Challenge. Young Scott has been challenged by Raynor, of Melbourne, to walk 24 or 48 hours, for LIOO a-side. Scott offers to accept if the match takes place here. The case of the Sheep Department y. Inglis, heard before Mi Whitofoord, R. M., at Eaikoura, occupied three hours. The charge was one of neglecting to take. reasonable means to clean an infected flock. Judgment was given for the Crown, The Magistrate said the weight of evidence was in favor of the defendant, hut the Act could not be set aside. The evidence showed that no Sheep Inspector had ever been iu the country. Mr Fitzherbert appeared for the Crown. The following is the substance of a petition to Parliament which is about to be circulated in Wellington for signature by the Roman Catholics resident in the district:—“ That your petitioners are conscientiously opposed to the system of publin education established in this colony ; that they have in consequence established Roman Catholic schools, and maintain them at their sole expense ; that under these circumstances that they find themselves aggrieved at being compelled to maintain a system of educatio a, from which they derive no advantage, and which pate them at great diqadvantige, and which is practically the cause pf their being sub? jected to double taxation that they are persuaded one of two things should be done (if they are to be treated according to equity and justice), viz., their schools should be put on an equality with the public schools, or they should be exempted from taxation for public school purposes ; that they respectfully pray your honorable Hoqae to tqke the premises into consideration, and devise such measures as will secure to tfao Roman Catholics of New Zealand justice 1 and equitable treatment,” ! *

The members of the Ashburton Quadrille Assembly are reminded that their Usual class meets this evening in the new Oddfellows' Hall at eight o’clock. The Oamaru dredge arrived yesterday, and will commence operations in the harbor to-morrow. The diedge is expected to fully realise the expectations formed of it from its trial in Dunedin. The bottom of the harbor is formed of a material that can easily be deepened t> any required depth.

Forsyth, the patentee of the rabbit exterminator, sued Albert Dornwell for the money due for . having cleared off the rabbits off a farm of 550 acres. Evidence was given by several witnesses that no rabbits survived the poisonous fumes administered in the burrows by the plaintiff, and although rabbits were seen a few days . after the.land .was said to te cleared, they must have come in from the neighboring farm. The Magistrate was of opinion that Forsyth had carried out his contract to clear the land, and gave judgment accordingly. His Excellency was received at Gisborne with great enthusiasm by a large crowd of town and country people, and was entertained at luncheon, and replying to the toast cf his health expressed his pleasure and-surprise at finding Gisborne such a large and prosperous town. Observing that 1 his name had been pronounced by the Mayor as if he were a Frenchman, he said he would tell them a secret. He. was not a Frenchman nor even an Englishman, but an Irishman. Referring to the har-. bor, he said they naturally wanted a breakwater, It was necessary the harbor 'should be' adapted to. the requirements of their splendid district, but it appeared to him that New Zealand was in danger just now of suffecjpg.fcpm an eruption of breakwaters. Daring his trip around, their harbor, he had examined the plans for a breakwater, and ,quite approved of them, and he hoped their'representatives in Parliament would be able te obtain the necessary facilities for so' important a work. If he had a vote he would heartily support the'proposal to construct the breakwater.