TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1056, 22 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■ " ■. f [per press association.] Sports. Auckland, To-day. The Eight Hour Demonstration Committee have received large number of en-. tries for the sports. Mr Mitchelson. Mr Mitchelson, Minister for Public Works, has left for Wellington by the Takapuna. The Napier Borough Council. Napier, To-day. The Borough Council having declined to advaince monies for charitable aid the Covernmeut has appointed a resident almoner. A letter offering the appointment to Mr A. Smith, charges the Borough Council with refusing to support the hospital. The charge is untrue, as the Cetiuoil has voted LIOO annually since the erection al the new hospitah - Tho. Hospital Committee yesterday elected E. W. Knowles chairman, vice Mr" Sutton, M.B.R.

The Government and Mr Donkin. • New Plymouth, To-day

Mr T . Dapkin, C-E., who for the last three years' has been prospecting at Mokau, at his own expense, is in Neyr. Plymouth, and states thathois 'id a’position .to point out a good route .for the railway between Taranaki and Te Awamutu. When Mr Bryce passed through Mokau he told Mr Ponkiu his experience should be made use ofi but for Government have ,not thought proper to give him thejibarge of ~a party,, so that.ha might get what kudos there would be of the discovery. JMrDnfikia > s well-known' in Melbourne, Dunedin, and Christchurch, having beeh' engaged in large 'hrorka in those places., ; ; t; i r"j , , The Aorangi Dinner, o f'/' ;j. j r t a At the djnner on,/board theAorangi last night Mr Q. S. Cooper pointed out a singular coincidence thatthe meaning’ of Aorangi was the first dawn of dayo The first immigrant. ship which ; artiySSdij .in Wellington, forty-four yearsago,,wasi called the Aurora, which meant exactly the same, while the French frigate which was so near planting the French flag at Akaroa was called the L. Tul,. another syuonynom. The .Aorangi has come out under a permit from Glasgow, and will not jbe formally registered until she reaches Lyttelton, where she will be placed ;on the Zealand.register.as hailing from that port ' It wasmeptidopd last night that Captain Turpin, a total etranger to the port, had'brought his ship into harbor -and alongside'the wharf without even a pilot on boardJ Ur J. S. M. Thompson also statedwthat although the Aorangi only arrived on Thursday evening his, firm had' goods by her delivered' in their • store and sola again on Friday, an instance of despatch which ha did not think could be equalled in any other port in the colonies. Wellington Begatta--

The weather having cleared up the Regatta Committee decided to start the programme- The drat event, the yolnntoer Boat Race/ was won by the 1 WeUiqg| ton Naval Brigade. . , , - Wesleyan Conference. At the Wesleyan Conference this morn* ing the following probationary Ministers, Revs Brooke,- Dukes and Griffin, underwent their final examinations before the Conference, and were admitted into fall connexion as Ministers. The Revs Watkin and Kidd were thanked for their services as principal and tutor ofjWesley College and were re-appointed. Rev J: ; Smalley, a supernumerary, was re admitted to fall work. Five students for the Ministry were appointed to receive tuition at Wesley College.

Police Statistics. . Dunedin, To-day,

The police statistics for the Dunedin district show in 1883 that 3,703 offences were reported, resulting: In 3,427 arrests and prosecutions. In 1882 there'were 3,667 offences and 3,382 arrests and prosecutions. The increases are in drunkenness and petty larcenies, but the depresses are in serious offences.

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