The Globe. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 211, 11 February 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1875. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

([Frets Telegraph Agency.') AUCKLAND, February 10. Charles Madder, solicitor, has been arrested on a charge of larceny as a bailee oaa warrant from Hamilton. Another fall of 40s per ton on flour is announced. Auckland superfine is quoted at £l3 10s, The Hero has sailed for Sydney. She takes 5858 ounces of gold, valued at £24,318, of which 1556 ounces paid duty at Nelson, At the sheep fair to-day there was a gplendid show of rams; the best realised £3O to £45 each. Twenty rams offered by Mid dleton averaged over £l9 each, several fetched over £40.„ All the prices were very good. „ , Sailed—Wonga Wonga for Sydney. GbahamstoWN, February 10 In Warden’s Court this morning Richard Stokes, carter, was fined Is and 18s costs for being engaged in raining operations without a miner’s right. Defendant bad been carting quartz from the Prince Imperial to the Battery, and had to load his own dray. The 4ociiioo of the Warden wai that this cm*

ployment came wilhin the mearing of mining l operations, as defined by clause 3 of the Gold Mining Districts Aot. 1873 TaupO. February 10 The native meeting at H'ort Galatea has just terminated All the open lands in tinneighborhood (excluding Troutbeck Run) have been acquired for Government. The area is over a quarter of a million acres, including extensive belts of totara forests Liberal reserves for native cultivation and residence have been carefully made. The last business done by Mr Mitchell and Captain Mair at the meeting was the fixing of a site and making arrangements for a school and industrial college for that district. Tinnatives give the necessary lauds, besides goodly subscriptions in money. One hundred and fifty children, it is said, will attend the school when opened, besides many adults, who express anxiety to learn the rudiments of European knowledge. The site fixed upon is on the Rangitatiki River, centrally placed for the settlements in the valley and on the borders of the Uriwera country. Wanganui, February 10. Messrs W. Watt, J. Ballance, of the Wanganui Herald , and W. Hutchinson, of the Wellington Tribune, are now canvassing the Rangitikei district to contest the seat to be vacated by Mr Fox. The Mairarapa Standard is to be issued three times a week in future, instead of twice a week as before. THIS DA T’S TELEGRAMS. Auckland, February 11. At the ball to the volunteer representatives about 250 persons were present. Sir Donald McLean was present, and said that so long as the volunteer movement was carried out with earnestness and zeal it would receive his support. He thought the annual colonial competitions were calculated to do great good, by bring people together and promoting friendly feeling.

[FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, February 10. Commenting on the prevalence of disease on board the Rakaia, the Star says :—“ In all the annals of emigration on any systematic scale, there has never been an illustration of such long-continued negligence, wilful misleading, and bungling incompetence, as has been furnished from the first to the present time by our own immigration office. Time does not improve it; and that immigration to New Zealand has survived in competition with other fields for colonisation is due to our own matchless attractions. ” Miss Christian, the distinguished contralto vocalist, has announced her intention of giving singing lessons while in Auckland. She is understood to be waiting for the engagement of a new concert company in Australia to make a New Zealand tour. Mr and Mrs Darrell (Mrs Robert Heir) give a short season here. The rush to Ohinemuri is fairly setting in. One hundred and fifty diggers proceeded there within the last ten days. No discoveries are reported, and there is nothing to justify the rush as yet. [FROM OUR DUNEDIN CORRESPONDENT.] Dunedin, February 10. The accident at the Chain Hill tunnel happened at the top end. The first shift, consisting of thirteen men, under the charge of Thomas Kerr, were in the tunnel at the time. At eight o’clock, after having been an hour at work, seven or eight feet of blue stone fell from the roof of the tunnel, covering Kerr, Patrick Dempsey, George Turnage, and Wedlock, The two last mentioned were immediately got out, and went into town to the hospital, where it was discovered that they were both severely injured, each having his legs broken. Kerr’s body, when found, had the s ! <ull split open and the neck broken. Dempsey’s head was almost severed fvom his body. Kerr was forty years old, and had resided fourteen years in the dis trict. He leaves a wife and seven children. Dempsey was thirty years old, and it is believed unmarried. The tunnel was timbered to within five feet of where the men were

illed, and bricked to within twenty feet. Dempsey, Turnage, and Wedlock only went to the work for the first time an hour before the accident occurred. The work in the tunnel was immediately suspended. Land in the Tuapeka district is much sought after. Deferred payment sections on Macnab’s run are likely to be rushed. At a sale of lots at Beaumont to-day sections only fit for grazing purposes fetched 24s to 41s per acre.

The Wanganui Rifle Association challenged the association here, but there happens to be none in existence. The matter stands over till the return of the representatives.