TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 978, 25 June 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per prkns association.] Death. •> ' Auckland, To-day. The Rev, Mr Hobbs, the oldest Wesleyan Missionary in Australia, and the father of Mr Hobbs, M.H.R., died last . .night in his 86th year. He arrived in New Zealand with the Rev. Samuel ; Marsden in 1823. The Fire. . , The losses by the fire at Hesketh’s and Aitken’s Store, Durham street, are wholly covered; by insurance. The fire is sup- . posed to have originated by spontaneous .»combustion in a bale of flax. -■ Blue Bibbonism. The Blue Ribbon Army opened with a ' great field day in the Theatre Royal to- • ■ ‘day, papers advocating temperance being 7 read by various clergymen. ? ' Floods in Nelson. - ' ■ ' NeLson, To-day. There was heavy rain from Saturday •night 'till early this morning, when it ,j cleared. The heaviest flood occurred in the' Tukaka district yesterday that has •bOeii r known for the last seven years. i The tramway is considerably damaged, tthe' bridge approaches partly carried awayj and the traffic stopped. Arrived from Home. Dunedin, To-day. The ship Forfarshire is at the Heads. She comes from Glasgow with emigrants, all of whom «re well. Football 5. The Rugby Union passed the following [resolution“ That Otago send a team to 'Wellington to take part iu the tournament at the end of July, provided that: Canterbury Union express their willingness to play this year’s fixture between •Qtago,and Canterbury in Wellington.” The lonic. ~ Crowds went into Port j esterday to see the lonic. 0; - An Ashburton Offender At the Port Chalmers Police Court Frederick Parsons was charged with larcflny of a watch and chain, and remanded |o> Ashburton. —,f- " The Gaol Enquiry. Atifae Prison Commission Mr S.out > read: correspondence on behalf of Mr Caldwell,/protesting against the nature of I the Commission. He said it par- , took of the - nature of a political enquiry with the object of preventing Mr Caldwell obtaining a well deserved ■ pension. He strongly objected to the proceedings being open to the Press, also to the proposal of the Commission to take the evidence of, prisoners in the Lyttelton - dnd Weltington goals. Whilst giving every !* credit to the geqtlemen comprising the Commission being actuated by a desire to . do jtfitioe, the Commissioners were dffloenf of' the Department of Justice, whibh 'iQ this matter was acting the rdle \ eft!’prosecutor. The Commissioners inti- y mbted they would pay Mr Caldwell’s ex- . p&ues’if he saw fit to accompany them to fc and Wellington. v