YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 938, 27 June 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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The Wreck of the Ocean Mail

Railway Department Changes.

Auckland, June 20.

To-day Colonel Ilaulfcain commenced an inquiry into the alleged irregidarities in the Old Men's Refuge. The inquiry showed that grog had been clandestinely smuggled into the Refuge. The Ladies' Benevolent Society instructed the manager to search the inmates returning home from visiting town. One man, named Harris, resisted, in the struggle fell, and severely injured his back. He admitted that there was no intentional violence used, but denied the right of the manager to search. Another inmate, Mrs Harris, was proved to have been drunk. Walker, an old soldier and a Waterloo veteran, left in a pet, owing to being abused by another inmate, and was allowed to return.

Several persons have been summoned for using light weights. One baker who had fifty-seven light weights was lined only five shillings.

At the Auckland Institute Captain Broun read a paper on Coleoplera. He believed that New Zealand contained a hundred species, whereas only forty-four had been discovered in Europe. Forty-three species have already been discovered in !N"ew Zealand.

Naitei;, June 20

Mr John Joshua's Kevevu run, a freehold of about 15,000 acres, and Wliana, a leasehold run of 19,000 acres (rental £190), together with 20,000 sheep, and all the station plant, has been sold for £37,000 to Mr Henry Ford, Canterbury. Wellington, June 26.

It is proposed to relieve Mr Passmore from his duties as superintending engineer of constructed railways in the North Island, Mr Higgenson combining this with the appointment now held by Mr Knorpp, who takes Mr Higgenson's present duties in the South Island. Mr Conyers retains his appointment, but his head-quarters will be Christchurch until, probably, the railway is completed to Dunedin. The Government steamer Stella returned today from the Chatham Islands. She left on Sunday, at 4 p.m. She brings the Resident Magistrate (Mr Deighton), and others, as witnesses in the case of perjury against the mates and apprentice of the Ocean Mail. The Stella did not visit the scene of the wreck. There is no chance of saving any more cargo. The wreck lias almost entirely disappeared. About £6OO worth of tallow, dry wool, sails, &c, has been recovered. The schooner Island Lily, with a. eai'go of wool and tallow, sails for Lyttelton in about a week. The schooner Cleopatra took timber to the Cliathams for sheds for drying and storing the wool on the beach. For some unknown reason, she left for Lyttelton without discharging the timber.

Edwards, of the Kaiwarra Hotel, and two others whose licenses were refused on the regular licensing day, had their licenses granted in each case to-day. Dukedin, June 26.

In the Supreme Court this afternoon a rule was granted calling upon "W. J. M. Larnach to show cause why lie should not be committed for contempt of Court, for haying, as alleged, gone to Australia to escape examination in the case of Chalmers Brothers against Clarke and others, in the matter of the Moa Flat Station.