LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1411, 23 August 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [eeuter’s telegrams to the press AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, August 22. Molita is still first favorite for the Cup at 100 to 8. The public are backing Swiveller 41 largo co«w»is9iouß, and and First

Lord at 100 to 20. Betting is dull. The ring are absent at tho Hawkesbury meeting. In the Stevenson prosecution, the jury were locked up for six hours, disagreed, and were discharged. Tho defendants wore bound over to appear when called upon.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS,

[PBB PBESf! AGENCY.] Wellington, August 22. It is intended to bring one or two tons of the D’Urville Island ore to be smelted at some local foundry in the presence of all who wish to see the quality of the ore. Nelson, August 22. A fire last night totally destroyed Newton’s livery stables, in Hardy street. The fire broke out in a loft which was full of hay, and the whole stables were a mass of flames when it was first discovered. Five horses were burnt to death, and two so seriously injured that they had to bo shot. One of the latter broke adrift with its clothe burning, and galloped wildly down Trafalgar street, and made a dash at tho door of the Club, smashing (he glass entrance. The harness and saddlery were all destroyed. They, with the horses, were insured for £3OO in the National, and £3OO in the Norwich Union. The overseer’s house and furniture, totally destroyed, were uninsured. Reefton, August 22. An influential and very largely attended public meeting was held here re West and East Coast railway. Resolutions were passed similar to those adopted at Christchurch. Six inches of snow fell to-day, and the storm continues. The weather for the past five months has been of greater severity than ever before experienced here. Ktimaea, August 22. The heaviest fall of snow here this year occurred to-day. Four inches are now on tho ground, and it is still snowing. Oamae.f, August 22. To-day the football match took place between the Oarnaru club and Christchurch College boys, the boys having the best of it, winning a well-contested game by two touch-downs to one. Dunedin, August 22. From private telegrams received in town to-day, it appears that the Government have abandoned Mr Macandrew’s plan for sites for tho railway station. The passenger station will remain in its present position, and the goods station will bo placed near Stuart street. Inveboabgill, August 22. At the Waste Lands Board this afternoon Professor Black’s application for 1380 acres of the Bluff Harbor Board endowment wm refused by the unanimous decision of the members. A letter from Mr Spence, chief surveyor, stated that the block was the key to the rest of the endowments of the Harbor Board, and he was prepared with evidence to show that the land was exceptionally valuable, with lots of limestone and splendidly sheltered, A fire occurred this evening on the flat, destroying a small house, occupied by Healey, a carpenter. He lost all his clothes and a sum of money that was in a box near tho fireplace. The house was built on the site o£ one burnt last year. [peom the coeeespondents of the peess.] Auckland, August 22. Further investigations by the police as to the late outbreak of fire at Devonport Hall leads to the belief that it was an act of incendiarism.

At the inquest on the body of Mrs Spencer, of Marati, whose remains were found in the bush recently, the evidence showed that the wounds on her throat had been made by some animal after death, also that she was subject to fits and mental aberration. The jury returned an open verdict. The schooner Atlantic, twenty-two days from Patea for Manukau, with a cargo of sheep, is missing, also the schooner Kaiuma, from Waitara, with sheep. It is feared that a wreck has occurred, as the Natives brought word that a quantity of wreckage was washed ashore at the South Head, Raglan. A constable, on going to the place, found thirty carcases of fat sheep bearing no brands, which the Natives said came ashore on the previous night, also a small ladder and semi-circular box with 7 by 2 battens, 2ft. 3in. in length, painted with Prussian blue and white alternately. The box is of the kind used for covering the rudder shaft, and is now in the constable’s possession. Constable Bulford was also informed by a settler living at Ruapuke, distant eighteen miles from Raglan, that on Friday last a portion of a false keel, quantity of onions, box of candles, and several sheeps’ carcases had come ashore upon Ruapuke beach. The yacht Foam capsized at Northern Wairoa, Kaipara. The owner, Antonio Souge, was drowned. He had swum nearly ashore when he turned back for a coat floating in the stream, and was unable again to reach the bank. Dunedin, August 22. A man named Hicks, suffering from delirium tremens , strayed from Clifton section, where he had been employed, into Balclutha on Wednesday. He was taken to the Crown Hotel by the police, but next morning left in a state of semi-nudity, and has not since been heard of. The Otago Football Team will be Allan, Cargill, Orawshaw, Mills, Murray, McKinnon, McLean, Nichol, Robb, Rose, Smith, Sweet, Thomson, Turton, Westenra, Wyncks.