LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1617, 26 April 1879, Page 3

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. [SBUTBR’a TELEGRAMS.] London, April 23. Wheat is 6i lower. April 24. Consols, 99. Obituary Hon. George Hawker, Mr Monckton Synnot, and Mr White, of Holmes, White and Co. AUSTRALIA. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Melbourne, April 25. Arrived —Bingarooma. Sydney, April 25. Patna rice, £2O to £22; sugar, £3O ss; candles, 7id to Bd. Pour hundred and seventy carpenters at the International Exhibition held out for an increase of 3d, namely Is 6d an hour. Sir H. Farkes refusing the concession, the strike is gradually collapsing. Adelaide, March 25. Plour, £ll 5s to £ll 10s. Parliament has been prorogued to 29th May. Hobart Town, April 25, The Treasurer has introduced his financial statement. There is an estimated deficit of £36,000, exclusive of £73,500 interest on railways. The deficit is to be covered by an increase in the property and income taxes of two and a half per cent. NEW ZEALAND. [PER PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, April 25. Two more boys were charged with absconding from the Industrial [school. The evidence showed that these boys bad bolted twelve times within three months. 3he Bench sentenced tbe delinquents to be flogged. The Corporation of Parnell was mulcted in three hundred pounds and costs in an arbitration case for injuries to the property of George Leahy. Wellington, April 25. A resident in Wellington has just received a letter from one cf the moat influential chiefs at Parihaka, stating that the natives there held a meeting, and after mature consideration came to the conclusion that on no pretence whatever would they resort to violence over the Waimate plains affairs. Qeeymouth, April 25. A fire broke out in Howie’s Masonic Hotel at 2 o’clock. By the time the alarm was given the building was enveloped in flames. The brigade succeeded in preventing the flames spreading to other buildings. Ibe hotel is almost a total wreck. The furniture and effects were injured in the National for £3OO. The loss is £OOO. Dunedin, April 25. Cooney and Fuller, two old offenders, were to-day committed for trial for robbery. [prom our own correspondent.] Timaru, April 25. This morning a lad named George Gullick, about thirteen years of age, working at Brace’s saw mills, met with a frightful accident, which since resulted fatally. It appears that the boy was helping a planer named James Ellis at the planing machine, and they had occasion to go below to mend tbe lacing of the belt, which was attached to the main shaft. Tbe boy was bolding the belt whilst his mate was lacing it. By some means or other he got entangled in the main shaft, and was hurled round and round with considerable force, the floor of tbe mill being about 2ft. or 3ft. above shaft. Both arms were torn off below the shoulder socket, and the legs severely crushed. On the doctor proceeding to the scene he saw wh .t a hopeless case he had to deal with, and had the sufferer t.ken immediately to the Hospital, Dr. Williams remaining with him for an hoar. Despite every attention, the lad died about one o’clock this afternoon. The reception committee to-day resolved to invite the Governor to a banquet on the evening of his arrival. At a special sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday evening last, a man named Rogers, a boarding house keeper, who owes a large amount of money, was charged with intending to abscond. The magistrate not deeming that there was sufficient evidence, refused to put him under restraint. The result is that the bird is now flown. [Press Special Wire.] Auckland, April 25. The brigantine Meg Merrilies was sold to-day to Mr Cole for £2209, and will be employed in the Fiji trade. Judge Gillies proceeds to New Plymouth on Circuit Court in a day or two, and thence South to attend the Appeal Court. In a case against Thos. Walker, charged at the police court with exposing meat for sale without its having been inspected and approved, the town clerk proved the by-law, which had been duly acknowledged by the under-secretary. The inspector proved that he had not inspected the meat in question. Mr Hesketh, for the defence, said there was no evidence that the corporation seal had been affixed to the by-law, and he contended that the Council had no power to make a by-law for the inspection of meat, as the Legislature hai not given the power. He considered the by-law had not been authorised by statute The case was dismissed. David Moss writes to the “ Star,” stating that he fell in with a number of racing men at an hotel, who booked fictitious wagers to draw him in at 3to 1. The owner of two horses in a race induced him to lay odds against one on condition he stood in, and then allowed the other to win and repudiated his obligation. Moss said he paid £283 in wagers, and> had given his jewellery to meet debts which he had since had reason to believe were a swindle. Ho gave cheques on his father in Melbourne, but a gentleman in business telegraphed advising him not to pay. At a meeting of the Auckland Coursing Club to-day it was resolved to hold the first match under the auspices of the Club on Wednesday, 28th May, when the following stakes will be run for: —All ag d stakes, at £2 each dog; puppy stakes, at £2 each ; bitch puppy stakes, at £2. Wellington, April 25. The Insurance Companies int nd to give farther pecuniary assistance to |the Fire Brigade.;

The Wellington Volunteer Pme Brigade received, ex Wave Queen, a large consignment of working plant, &c. This consists among other things, of one fire suit of latest construction, in which the fireman may enter any building full of smoke. Attached to this suit is a life line and an air pipe, nl-o a whistle for communication purposes, which acts something after ihe manner of a telephone The Corporation finance committee will, next week, decide what steps they will take to place the hundred thousand loan on the London market. Mr Mansford, R.M., has been seriously indisposed for the last couple of days. Plans for the Supreme Court Buildings are now ready. Kumaba, April 25. A crowded public meeting was held here last night regarding the education reserve, and resolutions condemning the action of the Government in not acting on the report of the goldfields committee last session, were carried unanimously. The principal speaker was Mr Barff, M.H.R. . , , , It is intended to give a public banquet and testimonial to Warder Price, on his being transferred from this district. Dunedin, April 25. Mr Ferguson, a large storekeeper and Mayor of Tapanui, was to-day charged at Tapanui with having burned down his premises, with intent to defraud the Insurance Companies, The evidence was held to be insufficient, and accused was discharged. In the Supreme Court to-dayfa decree was granted against Mr David Proudfoot, at the suit of the Harbor Board, compelling him to take up leases of certain sections on the reclaimed land. On Thursday next Captain Hammersley, of the Timaru volunteers, will appear at the police court to answer a charge of creating a riot in the Dunedin arcade, when the volunteers were returning from Invercargill. The following is a return of cases tried at the City Police Court, Maclaggan street, Dunedin, for the quarter ending March 31st, 187 H : Criminal cases : Dismissed for want of prosecution or evidence, 74; dismissed on the merits, 69 ; summarily convicted or held to bail, 614; committed for trial, 11; neglected children committed to Industrial School, 10; lunatics committed, 11; protection orders granted, 2: total, 791. Invercargill, April 95. The Governor held a levee this forenoon at the Athenaeum, at which some forty gentlemen attended. His Excellency afterwards went through the Government Buildings, the Immigration Barracks, and walked about the town. At half-past one the vice-regal party proceeded to Riverton by special train. They returned in the evening and afterwards attended the citizens’ ball held in the drill-shed. About fifty couples were present, and the whole affair passed off successfully.