LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 721, 21 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedin, January 20,

On Saturday night Peter Rutherford’s store at Caversham was destroyed by fire. The stock was insured witV the New Z aland Company for £IOOO, and the buildings for £IOOO in the same company. The furniture was insured for £IOO in the South British. The loss, io excess of the sum covered by insurauce, is estimated at £IOOO. Dr Roseby. at the Congregational Church last evening, advocated the introduction of tho Bible into schools.

Additional railway sidings are to he made at the south end of the Dunedin station. In all, 1600 feet additional will I e la;d down to meet the requirements of traffic until the new station is built.

Shipping.—Arrived : Hinemoa, from Wellington, wiih San Frai.ci.M3o mail ; Hawea, from Lyttehon.

Christchurch, January 20. The racehorse Javelin has hueu taken to Taimuiga in the s.s. Taiiiro, A little boy, four years old, was mu over oti Saturday at Kaiapoi, and sustained a compound fracture of the thigh. The English mail reached here at 12.25 p.m. on Sunday, j or s.s Tuiaroin

The barque Signs, from New York, arrived here with a cargo of American goods on Saturday. A man in the employ of James Bassingthwait“ the man who filed his schedule under such extraordinary circumstances the other day at Rangiora, has committed suicide hy hanging himself. Mr H. Moor, the editor of the Globe, died this morning. Fie had not long left the New Zealander.

A passenger of the Mary Bannatyne, from the West Coast to Lyttelton, jumped overboard and was drowned his name was Foster, and he is supposed to have been of unsound mind.

Mr Chadwick, chemist, who recently attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself, was sufficiently recovered to appear in the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, when he was committed for trial.

Bishop Pvedwood preached here yesterday to a crowded congregation. At the end of the service he announced a sum of £22.5G had been subscribed in limam for the Catholic schools there. Father Chataiguer give- half an acre of land wmth £620.

A man name 4 John Lee had his hand seriously mutilated by a circular saw at Waimate on Friday.

Wellington, January 20. It-is proposed to entertain the Governor at a farewell l>anque». A bakehouse in Courtney Place was burned this morning. It was insured for £loo in the New Zealand office. lh |j house of a cooper at Karori was also burned through a lamp exploding, Auckland, January 20. Cap'ain Derborn, of the San F>anciso mail steamer, has paid a visit to the Bay of Islands coni mines. - Thomas William Brown, arrested on a charge of attempted rape on Mrs Erinson, Scotia was remanded. In connection with the Kumara fire the South British insurance on the hotel was £IOO, not £IOOO ; total loss in connection with the fire £3OO, not £IOOO. At, the WeJeyau Conference to-dav, the Rev. Mr Tinsley, Primative Methodist, was received unanimously, LATEST UNPUBLISHED. [press agency.] Wellington. Tan nary 21. Mr T). M. Luckie, newly appointed as Commissioner of Annuities, entered upon Iris new duties yesterday.

The last of the Q uanntine immigrants at Bournes I-land are to be released to-day. The Hon. J. Martin is cutting up the ( state lately owned by the HV»u, Mr Waterhouse, and will offer about 40,000 acres in small farm sections bv July next. The estate is very much overrun with rabbits. The land will be sold on defat red payments. The Union Steamship Company has jn-t completed arrangements with the Postal Department for testing the proposed new scheme in connection with the San Francisco mail time table. The new proposal is to employ more fhan one coastal steamer. The result of this change will be to give Inv3"cargill, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, Taranaki, and the upcountry districts connected with them at least a day later for mail correspondence, besides admitting certain ports to a benefit not previously enjoyed by them. Napier alone will he loser of a day.

The young lad Bacon, who stole the bundle of notes amounting to £265 from the Anchor Line office, was brought up before the Resident Magistrate this morning, and fully committed far trial at the next Criminal Session. Bail was allowed, tho boy’s father in £2OO, and two sureties in £IOO each.

Auckland, January 21. Four tradesmen were fined at the Police Court this morning for having unstamped weights and measures in their possession.

The valuations of the Citv of Auckland for 1879 amount to £155,047 as compared with £140,503 for 1878. Several properties being exempted bv Acts of last session prevented the increase being much larger.