LATE TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3761, 13 March 1875, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

_ "Welllkoton, March 13. rue , .Tubes’ comments upon, the Naval Training Schools Act,.and regrets there has been such a sorry outcome since the Act has been in operation, as present appearances show the Act is likely to become a dead letter. It asks “Is it the fault of R.M.’s or the police that the young roughs of Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Auckland are not brought up. Notwithstanding the many larrikins and vagrant and neglected children in the, Colony, there ate still only nineteen inmates of Kohiinarama, while there is accommodation for sixty times the number.” The ‘Times’ sag-! gests as a remedy for such an unsatisfactory state of things, that instructions might be issued to. the RrMJs teasaist in carrying out the Act, and to obtain through the Superintendents the co-operation of the police for the same purpose.' March 13. Despatches from the Agent-General have been and they state most searching inquiry will be made into the origin, of the Coapatrick fire. , -• By the last San Francisco mail the Hon. W. H. Reynolds ordered lanterns and apparatus for the six new lighthouses to be erected on the coast j but it is not anticipated that they will arrive here under eighteen months,; ai only two firms in England make lighthouse apparatus, and it takes - a long time to manufacture ; but all the preliminary work is r being proceeded with. The Soukar brought out the lanterns for the Cape Foulwind and Tory Channel bghthouses. - Cromwell, March 12. The Crown and Cross Company has obtained 87 ounces from 66 tons of stone.