NEW ZEALAND.
[PER PRESS AGENCT.I Auckland, January 23. At the Wesley an Conference yesterday the following seven candidates for the ministry were accepted : —Messrs J. Pinford, W. Brooke, R. Hudson, 0. Abernethy, W. Sladc, J. Paries and L. Isitt. Mr Oliver Deans' offer was not accepted on the ground of ill health. The schooner Transit, from Oamaru, and the Albatros, from Wellington, arrived this morning. The latter vessel made the run in three days 14 hours An accident which narrowly escaped being fatal, occurred during the launch of the schooner Madonna, to-day. A line was passed to an adjoining schooner which, when the vessel went off the ways, was suddenly drawn taut. A lady speculator, standing in front of the rope, was caught by it and thrown several feet into the air, and thence overboard. Two men sprang into the water to her assistance, but great difficulty was experienced in saving her, owing to the mass of floating wedges and beams. Wellington, January 23.
The steamer Lyttelton arrived this morning, bringing about 'fifty tons of copper ore from Durville Island. The ore will be shipped to Newcastle to be smelted there.
The tramway is to be shortly extended _to Newtown, the residents of that suburb taking up a number of shares in the company. Dunedin, January 23.
Tho University Council having declined to accede to the formation of a chair of moral philosophy and political economy in the Otago University, such chair will be endowed in the college of the Fresbyterian Churcb. The railway picnic fixed for the Ist prox., will owing to the large number of employes on tho Otago section, be divided into two. One picnic will be held at Hampden, tho other at Melton.' The Synod has approved of the action of tho University Council in endeavoring to get a separate charter for the Otago University. iNVEKOARGiJiL, January 23.
The report this morning on Mr Conyers is that there are slightly more favorable symptoms, but that he still continues in a very precarious state. Dr. Skae and two other doctors are in attendance.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1539, 23 January 1879, Page 2
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