LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1334, 10 January 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

♦ [new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, January 7. A crowded meeting was held to-night, re West Coast railway. Resolutions were passed, urging the Government to assist any company which might be formed, and according vote of thanks to the movers in the matter and the engineers. Patrick Cain, keeper of a boardinghouse, was charged with selling liquor without a license, and fined £SO on two charges. Dunedin, January 7. The Australian Cricketers commence their first mutch in New Zealand at Invercargill on the 17th instant. It is understood tint application has been

made to the Minister of Railways for free railway passes for the team over the Colony. January 9. Edwards; the pedestrian, completed his .180 miles’ walk in 48 hours, on Saturday night. The statement that the Te Anau bumped on the bar at the Heads, when entering on Thursday, while drawing 14ft. lOin. is denied. It is said she was drawing 16ft. Wellington, January 7. Mr Bolleston does not accompany the Governor on his North Island tour. The Hon. Mr Dick accompanies his Excellency as far as Auckland, where he (Mr Dick) meets the Sydney steamer, and proceeds to Australia to represent New Zealand at the Intercolonial Conference. January 8. The Commissioner of Crown Lands has been applied to, and has issued a protection license for a quartz reef prospecting claim on the Tararua ranges, near Palmerston North. The applicants are expei’ienced miners, who have been prospecting for some time, and now think they have hit upon a payable reef. At the inquest on the body found in the harbor yesterday, a verdict of “ Found Drowned” was returned. A notice in the Gazette authorises the Premier to summon the Executive Council, and pieside during the absence of his Excellency. The following were the race-horses sold at Buckland’s :—Farmer’s Florence, 37 guineas; Major George’s Eewi, 120 guineas; Joseph Banks’s Parawenna, 161 guineas; Joseph Ellis’s Lara, offered 95 guineas, withdrawn a reserve 125; Hilda, offered 88 guineas, withdrawn for 150! Sportsman, offered 186 guineas, withdrawn for 250 ; Lone Hand, offered 150 guineas, withdrawn 350. Auckland, January 7. The following are the principal winners at the settling of the Auckland Club:—-John Smith, ,£291 ; Farmer, £lO9 ; Walter’s, £320; Gallagher, £69 ; Butler, £150; Lance, £332; Hunt, £190; Lunn, £66; Allan M‘Donald, £184; Walrnsley, £lO4. The body of a man, greatly decomposer!, was found on the beach at South lie id, Kaipara. It is believed it is the remains of one of the crew of the wrecked brigantine James A. Stewart. Robert Hale, broker, died from the effects of an accident received while jumping recently from the deck of the Rotorua on to the Queen’s street wharf. A gum digger, named Nicholson, committed suicide, owing to his hut being burnt down, destroying a sum of money and a quantity of gum. A public meeting was held in connection with the Good Templar Conference. Addresses were given by S. Hemus, Speight, (M.H.R.), and Price, of Wellington. January 8. The wreck of the Lady Don was sold to Mr Cairns for £25 10s; the cargo of totara pines to Michelson for £2O. At the Good Templar Conference the Political Committee’s report recommend, in view of an early general election, that a grand Electoral Deputy be appointed, with District Electoral Deputies in each centre of population, to concentrate the political power, in order that any candidates who vote for the popular control of the liquor traffic being adopted, are to be .supported. The report was adopted. The store of (’harles Bell, near Church Hill, Waikato, was robbed of £IOO worth of drapery. It is supposed by a native.

The fair in aid of the Young Women’s Institute was successful.