General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 193, 22 March 1878, Page 6

General Intelligence.

o The Hon. W. J. M. Larnach's resignation is gazetted. Floods in the Yarra have done great damage to tVI el bourne. The meeting of parliament has been postpoued till Thursday, May 23. A mprried Avoman and a domestic servant are missing in Wellington. A fire at Hobart Town the other daydestroyed property valued at L 12,000. The authority to frank letters, granted to the Chairmen of Education Boards, has been cancelled. The Oamaru papers record the death of Mr G. T. Fenwick, an old resident, at the age of sixty-three. Mr Joseph Clark, of Moa Flat, has given a donation of LSO to the Dunedin Young Men's Christian Association.: By a fire in Auckland on Sunday night, a brewery, a boot and shoe shop, and a dwelling-house, were destroyed. There were two outbreaks of fire in different parts of Auckland, last week, but they Avere speedily extinguished. An explosion of gas took place at the Government House, Auckland, last week, hut no serious damage was done* A rich specimen of -gold in quartz has been found in making a creek near Mr Halcombe's residence at Fielding, Manawatu. A man's foot was caught' in a threshing machine at Whau, on Monday; The leg was amputated, but the man expired shortly after the operation. Mr"F. J. Moss, the new M.H.R., for Parnell, is about to make a stay at Napier for some time in connection with Mr Ree's Native and law husiness. Major Atkinson addressed his constituents at Patea, on Friday night, and received a vote of confidence. He also received a similar vote at Manutahi; An order has been promulgated by the Sydney Government in accordance with the resolution of the Assembly prohibiting members acting as land agents. . ' In the District Court, Nelson, on Monday, Judge Board, Florence Josephs pleaded guilty to the charge of .-indecent assult, and Avas sentenced to six years' penal servitude. A man named Andrew Morrison was sentenced at the Dunedin Police Court on Saturday, to three months/ imprisonment with hard labour, fbr stealing a number of shirts from a clothes line. The whaleship Splendid, owned by Messrs Cormack, Elder,- nnd Co, of Dunedin and Port Chalmers, has returned to port with 55 tuns of sperm oil, the result of a three months' cruise off the Chatham Islands. Thirteen appointments are at present open in connec.tioii~Avith the Otago Education Board. Amongst these are . an assistant schoolmistress for Tokomairiro, and schoolmistresses for Tapanui and Greytown. It is stated that the Government has directed tbe Agent-General to make a large reduction in his department, and that should he resign in consequence of puch instructions, his place will be filled by Mr Reader Wood. A fire, resulting in the total destruc- ; tion of a wooden building belonging to Mr M'Caughan, occurred at Jbsephville A. on the 11th instant. Damage, to the extent of L4OO was done, and no- clue j has yet been found to lead to the origin A of the fire. - .. -. * A His Excellency thp. Governor is ex- A pected at Grahamstown. about. Friday, i to formally open the new county*; road A to Ohinemuri. The local bodies are A preparing to receive him. ., Probably a 1 citizens' ball or banquet will take place. I The Maoris will take a prominent part. Mr Allen, a Baptist, minister, held | forth in Hyde Park, Sydney, onSunday | last, against the , Roman Qatholics. 1 Fifteen thousand people assembled. A 1 secretarian riot was feared, and a hnn- | dred of the police were -present. The ! military w were ready to be called ont. % An Auckland telegram says : — The § Rotorna survey party 'from,; yVaikato f have been taken prisoners ,by* tiie Na- 1 tives at.. Toborua:" Their" .theodolites | arid -chains were taken, and' tbey' were 1 ;seized about naidnight, \vhile surveying Jj -by,moon%hh '■■ iThjaT.Njfiti^^^ very 1 indignant at 'what th'ey/eallJaXbarpfaced 1 attempt to deprive them of their lands. M