LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1357, 5 February 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedin, February 4. It is reported that gold has been found in the bed of the Clntha, near Balelutha. There is a small rush of diggers to the locality.

The Tablet forwarded by the outward mail £37 odd, sent to it in aid of the Parnell defence fund.

Christchurch, February 2. Dr Davies, late house surgeon of the Christchurch Hospital, was, this evenings presented with a handsomely illuinitiated address, and a gold locket by the hospital officials. • * ' Wellington, February 2. Considerable dissatisfaction was excited on the course to-day by the action of the police under Superintendent Sherman sternly suppressing all games of chance except the two totalisators on the lawn. The racing club had sold the right to the games for £22, and twenty tables of various kinds, including two with monkeys to draw tickets from a box, were bn the ground ready for action, when the police interfered. The stewards interviewed Sherman to induce him to permit what has always heretofore been allowed at race meetings, but he absolutely refused. Auckland, February 4. The Auckland cricketing team are Settling down to practice in anticipation of the visit of the Australians.

The police made a raid on sly grogfieilers. Julia Wilson and Annie Frank Street, were fined £5 and costs. In the case of Newton’s Working Men’s Club the plaint was dismissed, Thb Kawa Kawa Race Committee fined Golton, Owner of the horse Race, £lO, and not allowed him to run at Kawa Kawa for two years. Stewart, the jockey, was disqualified for two years for pulling the horse;

THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. N6lson, February 4. The remaining business at the Wesleyan Conference yesterday was as follows:—Resolved, “That when attafrelling preacher was not acceptable; oi: so inefficient as to be no longer useful, the Conference might ask him to request a location, and on his refusal, the Gomference at its first meeting thereupon should, without trial, locate him without his consent.” Agreed—“ That a book of discipline be provided by the General Conference, suitable for the people.” Other resolutions bearing on the constitution of quarterly meetings, the desirability of Methodist Union Church rules, &c., were discussed. Votes of thknks were passed to the Minister of the Nelson Circuit, and Reception Committee and others. It was decided to hold the llext Conference (1882) in Christchurch', aftd thus closed one of the most important and interesting Conferences held in N6w

WELLINGTON RACES. Wellington, February 4. Hutt Park Stakes—Rand wick, 1 ; Luna. 2 ; Mischief, 3. Hurdle Handicap Clarence, 1 ; Grey Momus, 2 ; Agent, 3, Racing Club Handicap—Libeller, 1 ; Norseman, 2 ; The Governor, 3. Ladies Purse—Billingsgate, 1 : Miss Domet, 2. Consolation Race—Dan,T ; Mischief, 2 j Cassivelaunus filly, 3.