LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1446, 4 October 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. [eeutee’s tblegeams to the peess AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Melbouene, October 3. The betting on the forthcoming races is very dull. For the Cup, Melita stands at 100 to 10 ; Calamia and Chester, 100 to 7 ; Democrat, 100 to 6 ; Woodlands apd Swiveller, 100 to 5. For the Derby, His Lordship and Bosworth, 2 to 1; Vulcan, 100 to 5. Sydney, October 3. The latest Noumea news says that over thirty more settlers have been massacred by the revolters in Poya district, including Youadille, whose body has been found. The Government are arming the convicts and deportes. Arrived—Tanjore at the Sound. Beisbane, October 3. The Cup race was won by Premier ; Sydney, 2 ; Olivia, 3. Won easily in 3min. 37sec. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS, , [Per Press Agency.] Alexandra, October 3. There is a large Native assemblage at Kopua to-day, called by Tawhiao. All the Ngatimaniopotos in the district will be present with the chief Te Wainui, for the purpose of considering the present state of affairs, the result of late meetings, &c. Major Mair left here this morning en route for Wellington. New Plymouth, October 3. The following was received by the police from Hawera this afternoon : “ Armed parties of Natives and Native police are on and in the vicinity of the Mountain road. If there were any other armed Natives there they would have been reported here (Hawera).” The general opinion in New Plymouth is that the parties who have been stopped have been needlessly frightened, as it is unusual for armed Natives to be seen on the Mountain road. The police are making active enquiries. Napier, October 3. The inquest on the fire at the Spit _ was opened this morning before Dr. Hitchings, coroner, and a jury, consisting of the principal merchants at the Spit. The only evidence tending to implicate any person in the commission of incendiarism was that of the wife of Constable By ran and of the daughter of Benkers, both of whom stated that they saw a man without a hat jump over Benkers’ fence just when the alarm was raised. The inquiry was adjourned till to-morrow afternoon. Hokitika, October 3. The Supreme Court opened to-day. W. T. Fowler pleaded guilty to larceny from a dwelling-house, and was sentenced to six months. Charles Nygrew was acquitted on the charges of maliciously wounding Elizabeth Campbell and Magnus Nicholson. The Grand Jury threw out the bill for criminal libel, Davis v. Potts, of the “ Reefton Times.” Great anxiety is felt here about the steamer Waipara. She had over a dozen people on board besides the mails and twenty-five tons of cargo. Letters from Okarito, dated 30th September, report heavy gales, high surf, and flooded rivers in the locality where the Waipara was last seen. There is a very small insurance oa the steamer. The “ Times ” suggests that the Government should send a steamer in search from a Southern port. Captain Turnbull, harbor-master, went South in the Lioness with the search party on behalf of the owners, Balciutha, October 3. The township is still under water to an average depth of two feet. Only throe dwelling houses are gone, but several buildings are undermined, and in great danger. One small store was washed away, one fancy goods shop was washed into the stream, also a blacksmith’s shop. Gravel and mud pits were formed in the street, and garden fences broken down and washed away. The current was very strong in some parts. The streets are full of large holes, making them extremely unsafe for horses. A man and horse went completely out of sight in a hole to-day. Both were ultimately saved. Sand spits, etc., prevent boats plying. Only a few families remain in the town. Almost all have gone to neighboring settlers. The railway is much damaged. The station building is still standing but undermined. Both bridges are safe. In Clutha, Sterling and Kaitangata are submerged. The greater part of the stock was saved, but are as yet in a very precarious position. No human lives were lost. The river has fallen very little. Dunedin, October 3.

A meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery was held to-day to consider the new Bill introduced by the Attorney-Q-eneral, which has for its object to deprive the Presbyterian Synod of the right to appoint those Professors of Otago University whose chairs are endowed out of certain church funds, the third of which the Synod is compelled by law to expend for educational purposes. The petition submitted, and which it was resolved to forward to Messrs Macandrew and Holmes for presentation to Parliament, expressed regret at the action of the Attorney-Q-eneral in introducing a Bill to denude the Synod of the above-mentioned power. The Presbytery was not aware of any reason why the said Bill, which seriously affected the rights of the Synod, should have been introduced without due notice to the parties interested, and protested againwhat it submitted was an unjust and arbitrary proceeding, done in violation of the first principles of justice, and one which, if sanctioned, would produce a feeling of insecurity with regard to vested rights throughout the colony. A somewhat bitter discussion followed, in the course of which the Attorney-Q-eneral’s action was severely criticised. The report of Professor Black on a sample of brawn from Oamaru, and which was supposed to have been the cause of the poisoning cases there, states that it showed an absence of all mineral poisons, but under the microscope vibrionos in great quantities were detected. It is well-known, says the Professor, that vibriones are evidence of putrefactive changes, but the seasoning present was sufiicient to hide them, though putridity had advanced considerably.

[from the correspondent of the press.] Dunedin, October 3.

It is raining again pretty steadily, and another rise of the Molyneux is anticipated. Last Tuesday’s mails from the Clyde reached town to-night. Boats were put on the river at Roxburgh to-day to the great relief of the inhabitants of the district beyond, who had been out off from communication for nearly a week. At Miller’s Flat some houses were flooded to a depth of seven feet, Telegraphic communication with the Lake district was resumed to-day.

A telegram just received from Queenstown says that the extremely heavy rainfall last Saturday produced the heaviest flood ever known in the district. T ll o whole country moved with landslips. The Shotover was ten feet higher than during “the old man ” floods, and the Late itself rose three feet higher than ever before known. On Sunday the lower part of Queenstown was submerged to a depth of nearly eight or ten feet. The damage is not known, but the owners must bo great losers, both as regards buildings and stores. Business is removed to the high ground. The publication of the local “ Mail” had to be to the depth of water in the office. It will cost the Corporation of Queenstown a very large sum to repair the streets. The roads to Moke Creek and Skippers were swept away. At Skippers, Soulhberg’s stables wore swept into the stream, and his residence smothered by landslips, the family barely escaping with their lives. Quartz machinery is comparatively uninjured. The Arrow district being much higher has not suffered greatly. There is so little communication with the outlying districts that it is difficult to estimate the loss. The Lake went down seven inches this morning, but as it was raining again another rise was feared. No mails had reached Queehstown for a fortnight.