NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1549, 5 February 1879, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[TER TEEBB AGENCY.] A uckland, February 4.

A frightful accident has just happened at Holdship’s m ills, Newton. A boy named Alfred Howies, aged thirteen, was caught by the bolt and entangled in the machinery, both legs being broken in several places. He was removed to the hospit 1 in a state of utter collapse. The insurances on the Clyde were: —Hull, £SOO ; cargo, £360 in the South British ; .£225 in the New Zealand, £i3Uinthe Colonial. Wellington, February 4.

Intelligence has been received from Capo Campbell that the ship Southminstor is broken up, and the wreckage is strewing the beach. Mrßoardman, acting for the underwriters concerned, has saved a large quantity of cargo, namely, >orae 2000 cases kerosene, 20 organs, and between 200 and 300 cases of miscellaneous merchandise. Mr Boardman bought the hull of the ship, on account of the South British, for ,£7O. He has saved about .£7OO. Both evening papers to day have very strong articles denouncing the lenient sentences passed on the Glasgow B aik directors. The “Chronicle” says: “The whole thing is monstrous, and it will make the heart of every honest man throb with indignation, that infamous scoundrels like these directors should not have had their proper desert served out to them.” The “ Post ” says the intelligence (of these sentences) caused an absolute thrill of astonishment and indignation to run through the whole community.

[from our own correspondents. 3 Timahit, February 4. The decision of the hospital commission re Cassidy’s death, in blaming the vi-iting surgeon fo'- not stating the nature of the disease and exact dietary scale to the steward, is not looked upon as satisfactory. An opinion is expressed that the commissioners put in warders and nurses who are not fit for the post, and do so without first consulting the surgeon, whom they blame if anything goes wrong. ’4 he insurance rates on vessels visiting Timaru has been raised another one per cent., and is now at 2-J, which is almost prohibitive. Very bitter feeling exists_ on tbe matter, and a local insurance company is talked of. The potato pest is increasing its ravages, and being discovered in all parts of the district. It has also appeared at Oamaru and elsewhere. A writer in the “Herald” this morning (a gardener) says it is the larva of a beetle or cockchafer. The weather has taken a turn for the better, and the glass is steadily rising. Invercargill, February 4. One recent arrival at Invercargill ns an immigrant proves to be an old settler, who has come out in the character of a new chum at the Government expense. The Ministerial party went to Queenstown today, and will return here on Saturday. They were heavily deputations! at Riverton yesterday. For tho municipal offices in the new municipality of Campbelltown there are sixteen candidates for councillorshipa, and two for Mayor. Two are also contesting one seat at tho Bluff Harbor Board. [Press Special Wire.] Auckland, February 4. Tho prisoner Fidget, charged with setting fire to several hay and wheat stacks, was brought up to-day. There are thirteen witnesses. The case will not he concluded to-day. The poor boy, Alt’. Bowler, who was mangled in Hold.ihip’s sawmill this morning, died Ibis afterno n. 'J ho police have given the following addition il particulars Deceased was employed at tho mill, and this morning, with another boy, named Thomas Harrison, he was attending the machine. He ha i ground so me pu l ty, and was in the act of placing the belt on the sir ft when bis clothes became entangled between them, which drew him against a beam. He was then Carried round several times by the m icbinery until his clothes were completely torn off a d his body frightfully mangled. He was finally thrown on the floor of the mill. The only other person working in the same department was a man named Ben Holmes, who did all in his power to rescue the boy. The son of Mr Bartley, a builder, war poisoned by eating matches this afternoon, and is lying dangerously ill. Greytown, February 4. An inquest was held on tho late fire to-day, before Mr Spratt, coroner. The witnesses were

examined at great length. T lie Vi filic! was that there was not sufficient evidence to show how the tire originate''. vYelLtnqion. February 4. Twenty six persons npp led for the secretary ship t ■ the Sydney Kxhi iiion Cotmms doners, W. Callis. late 1 11 vty and Cahi , w s . lio- cn. At a meeting of the Sydney Exhibition Commissioners this evening the onairman Hated that three rooms in the Assembly Buildings were placed at thei- ,’,i posal. 'J he memorandum tom the Colon al Secretary stand ih t tlie übinet approved of the expenditure of a sum not exceed ng two thousand pounds by the Commission Busiiuashad ben delayed owing to the programme of the Sydney committee rest bavin , r come to hand. Cireui r- wid be distribute j throughout the colony as soo i as full particulars arc 'to hand a’, d lo> al commute's will bo appointed. The Cross will he admitted to all meetings mid notice given. Answers to intending exhibitors arc postponed pen ing ’be arrival 0£ tbe programme. The chairman also said he hoped to be r.bic to send a “ Maori house” as an exhibit. The average price per foot of the reclaimed litul. exclusive of the Section that sold for J 2154 per foot, was £4B. Fie ldino, February 4 A Coroner’s inquest was hold to-day at the Denbigh Hotel, ou the body of Coitior, an old Miumwatu settler, who was killed yestei day in a gravel pit at Kiwitea. Do was working for Powell, a contractor, when a fall of gravel struck bis shovel, forcing the handle into the man’s abdomen. A verd ct of accidental death was returned. Nelson, February 4. The Nelson College was opened yesterday with a larger number of pupils than were ever on tho roll before, including forty new bo s. Applications arc so numerous that the governors have decided to build a new wing, comprising a largo class room and several bedrooms. Blenheim, February 4. The first meeting o- creditors of S. Budge, hotelkeeper, late of Wellington (tobacconist), was held to day. Mr Horton, of Fell and Co., was elected trustee. The creditors present agreed > o accept a composition of 3s 4d in the £, the debtor to bo discharged on payment. Dunedin, February 4. The ministers’ conference, embracing most of the clergymen of all denominations in tho city, at their meeting yesterday, passed a resolution generally npp-oving of He constitution of the proposed New Zealand Alliance, for bringing about an amendment of the laws regulating the liquor traffic in this colony. The Alliance is similar in character to the United Kingdom Alliance in the home country, and seeks, by a combination of abstainers and non-abstainers, to secure a popular veto on the granting of licenses A deputation waited upon the Minister of Public Works this morning to get an advance of .£IOOO towards the erection of a general traffic bridge at Balclutha. It was forciblyurged that the work was of colonial importance, and affected Dunedin just »s much as Balclutha. The difficulty of tranferring stock from the districts near Balclutha to Dunedin had c maed a rise in the price of batchers’ meat in the city. Mr Macandrew promised to give au answer to-morrow.

The following paragraph appears in the “Star” to-night:—The Chinese question is exciting attention bero. One hundred Mongols arrived for Proudfoot and McKays railway works, and the laboring classes do not like it. The returns of immigration and emigration for the p ist month show a balance in favor of Dunedin of 1019. In chambers this morning Mr Justice Williams, on the application of the plaintiff’s solicitor, granted leave on Te first day of next term to move for anew trial in tho case of Richmond v Hepburn. Invercargill, February 4. John Patterson, who declares he was subeditor of the Melbourne “Argus,” and who arrived from Victoria in the Arawat.i yesterday, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of lunacy. It seems he att. rapted to drown himself it the Bluff, and on being p'evented, placed himself in front of a train and narrowly escap- d being run over. He is now awaiting medical examination. The vital statistics for the month of January are—Births, 38 ; marriages, 10 ; deaths, 7. The Customs revenue for January amounted to .£4460 13s lOd.