TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 964, 8 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] The Old Campaigner. Auckland, To-day.

Sir George Grey probably goes to Waikato to-morrow. Wahanui wishes to-con-sult him about land. Sir George Gray goes to Wellington on Tuesday next, -r

Death of a Bagman. New Plymouth, To-day.

Mr W. H. Taylor, a commercial traveller for the firm of Messrs Butterworth, Bros., Dunedin, died at noon - to-day at Cottier’s Criterion Hotel, from congestion of the lungs. It appears he got wet in crossing the Manawatu a fortnight ago, and caught cold. Doctors O’Carroll and Leatham attended him, and he has had an experienced nurse since being ill, b’Ut-he was seized with convulsive fits this .morning, and died about noon. His wife is in Wellington and she has one child. Fire. Palmerston North, To-day. # A house owned by a man named Granby, at the Terrace, was burned this morning. The family were saved with difljculty, and the effects and furniture were all destroyed. The latter was insured in the Northern for Ll5O. The ForeshoreWellington, To-day. The City Council has refused the Harbor Board’s request for a portion of the unreclaimed foreshore at Te Aroha for dock purposes. Ball at Wellington. About 350 guests were present at the ball given last night by the Wellington Club to His Excellency the Governor. Lady Jervois was too unwell to attend. Major Atkinson and the Friendly Societies- ■ ; T Nelson, To-dayi Major Atkinson last night had along conference with members of the friendly societies regarding national insurance and the friendly societies business. . The following resolution was passed by a large majority—“ That in the opinion of this meeting the scheme .of national insdxnnce as propounded by the Hon. Major Atkinson has much to recommend it; but. that In its preliminary state it is premature to pass any decisive resolution. ” An unanimous vote of thanks was given to Major Atkinson. r,: ■

Licensing. The Licensing Bench have reduced all 12 o’clock licenses to 11 o’clock. 1 .i-j ■ ■ t ■

Accepted. Tender. Dunedin; To-day. The tender of Mr Walter Carlton for the Dunedin goods shed for L 2,165 has been accepted. A Lively Meeting. A lively meeting took place at South Dunedin last night, and kept up till nearly three this morning. The presence of twelve policemen, prevented any display of rowdyism. The gas dispute remains in statu quo. •

The Manawatu Railway Company yesterday received a cable from Sir Julius "Vogel, announcing that their debentures, ptpqunting to L 200,000, have been taken nip ,by a London syndicate. The deben-' tures, bear 5 per cent, interest, but the Directors refuse to i state at what price they have been, disposed of, beyond the general statetncnt; that it is a satisfactory one. By the Act they cannot sell at a price which will give the purchasers more; than 6. per cent. The reserve, L 30,000, have .also been taken up in London on the same (terms as the shares held in. the colpny. ..The Directors now intend to, PUah on the construction the line with; "tEip greatest possible rapidity, v The labor question in Fiji, judging! from the following, which we take from the Fiji Times, is getting complicated ; “ Things are progressing with the planter, and there is every prospect that before long he will have a high old time of it with his laborers. Amongst a plantation; .of Ra men engaged on a. Windward plantation was one who acted as chaplain of; the .gang, and one Saturday this man; fMlad.tn turn nut with the others. • Ho- 1 tioing his absence from the field, his eraployer went to look for him, expecting to dad him sick. Instead of this, hq found him: lolling on a mat in his bare, blowing 1 a fragrant cloud from his seluka, evidently ~in the rudest of rude health, but appatently lost in pleasant abstraction of mind. ‘ .What in the thunder are you 'doing there V was the irate planter’s not : o oyer polite. Inquiry, ‘Go away and don’t disturb me’, was the dignified response *1 am composing my. sermon for Sun-j day.”’ The late John Brown was far from 1 fond of boating, as a hitherto unpublished anecdote will ‘show. When at Loch* ' Maree Brown assisted 'the Queen and Princess Beatrice into a somewhat frail; craft for the.purpose of rowing them out 1 Ib a spukll island in the loch. Boarding! the boat himself, he did it so clumsily thaths very nearly gave the Royal party ‘‘ How awkward you are,j Drown 1”! , exclaimed Her , Majesty.) ** r said the imperturbable Scot, “ ItLwas yary far from my wish to come inter this boat at all.’' The death of; Brown reminds thp ‘ World ,of a story. ' A gpntlemhn in Highland dress, going to; ■6jx,o pf the .Courtfunctions," was spotted! .by tha street-boys, whc, as the carriage, [drew; into, line, surrounded it, crying; , lucre’s John Brown !’’ The in-| .dividual inside, lowered the window, in l great dudgeon, and said : “ I’m no John, Drown ; Cameron o’ Lochiel 1” '.' According to the following paragraph, taken from the -Nieto Zealand Herald, the! ■notorious.'labor agitator, who wooed the; Suffrages an -Auckland constituency at the general election, has be-n getting into -trouble again Yesterday,.Mr Wm. Q. Gartardwaa arrested by the police (on ■ warrant) on information laid by his wife, iThirisa Garrard, for assaulting her ‘*by (striking her on the head with his clenched then and there threatened to kill iher,i holding a tomahawk towards ’her,’ and she states ' that in consequence of his 'threat* and violent' conduct towards her she is afraid he will do her some grievous - bodily harm if he be not restrained, and farther she is now afraid to return homo.’ It must be admitted that, this is a serious indictment''against a candidate for -Parliamentary' honors, but to all and .every , charge Mr Garrard gives a com-, plete denial. Of late he has been; 'giving less attention to politics, and' -been workitlg hard at the silt punts., It seems- that on Thursday evening; be, returned' to hia home, when some; words ensued between him 'and his wife,' as to her' domestic training, of Garrard and also as to aorne questioos of domestic 'finance. He was desirous of; Eetting possession 'of some money he bad; kidaaide for his lawsuit with Mr Ootter,! 'ahd Thirza, as' Chancellor of the Exohe-i , qott, refused to yield up> possession. The tomahawk did come into play, but it was; to break open the box to get the money, j Imttfae search was vain. On Friday morning early, after a little’skirmishing, the htrhgglP'-waß seiionaly renewed between; the i v Mr Garrard endea-; iVOUred to get out a summons to bind his wife to keep the peace, but the pay chest! having been’, secured by the enemy, ■ he! was unable’ to v do so. 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