LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1772, 5 June 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

MEETINGS OF GOLDFIELDS AND WESTLAND AND CANTERBURY MEMBERS. [special to kumara times.] Wellington, June 3. This morning a caucus of Goldfields members was held. Twenty-two were piesent, at which Messrs Seddon, FitzGerald, De Lautour, Weston, Pyke, J. C. Brown, and Sheehan were appointed during the session to watch over goldfields matters, and also to draw up a report for the consideration of the Goldfields members on Monday ; the report to deal with the questions—1, prospecting; 2, diamond drills and rock and drift-boring apparatus; 3, taxation of miners and mining iudustry; 4, laws relating to mining; 5, matters affecting goldfields gem-rally. Afterwards a caucus of Westland and Canterbury members was held, at which 25 were present. The following resolutions were unanimously carried i “ That a standing committee of the Westland and Canterbury members be appointed to watch over the interests of Canterbury and Westland, in the event of a new loan being raised ; such committee also to report what'amount of the loan should be appropriated to Westland and Canterbury. The committee to consist M Messrs Wright, Seddon, Hoi meSy/Pustleth waite, M*ll- - and GyStewart. A — [new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Jane 2. The following telegram has been received by Sir Maurice O’Rork'e, Speaker of the House of Representatives i—- “ The promoters of the New island International Exhibition present their compliments, and wifi be glad if you and the rnemlfers of the Assembly will honor the Exhibition with a visit, and will be glad to know the day and hour, in oider to give visitors a suitable reception.” To this Sir Maurice (THorke replied ;—“ Th > House has not yet expressed any opinion' about visiting the Exhibition. Personally, I hope we shall be afforded opportunity of doing so. The Nelson is under orders to be ready for sea on Saturdiy next, and his Excellency will probably" leave for iriji on Monday week. It is understood that Hiroki, lying under sentence of death for the murder of M*Lean, has confessed his guilt. A Christchurch man, named Ralph Reading, was working at a circular saw it Parvitt’s yards, Sydenham, this morning, when a portion of the saw flew off and struck him on the head, cleaving it open from the crown to the chin. Death was instantaneous. June 4. In the Court of Appeal yesterday, a new trial was granted in Connor v. Mackay on five issues dealing with timber transactions, and a new trial was refused on the other issues. Dunedin, June 2. A new boat for the Union Steamship Company was launched to-day at Port Chalmers, where she has been put together, She is built entirely of milled steel, and was turned out in Messrs Denny Bros, yards. She was named the Waihi, by Mrs George M‘Lean. She is 80ft. long, 18ft, wide, and Bft. depth of hold, and is intended for the river trade in Fiji, where she will act as a feeder to the company's bouts trading between Fiji and this colony, A project is on foot to form a tunnel from Dunedin to Kaikorai Valley, beneath I lie Moruington Hill, entering at the top on the Serpentine Avenne, Bishop Neville intends establishing an Orphanage for the Church of England children, to be conducted under his owu and Mrs Neville’s supervision Christchurch, June 2. The outbreak of diphtheiia in St. Alban’s is very serious. The borough school has been closed by the Board of Health, who have ordered all the Sun. day Schools also to be discontinued, and the Health Oilicer advises the residents for the present to avoid vigitino one another as much as possible. In one family three deaths occurred in two days.

Jouhertand Twopenv, who acted as commissioners at the Paris Exhibition, 1878, for New South Wales and South Australia, have received medals from the French Government in recognition of their services.. F. H. Williams, clerk in the Railway Goods Department, has been committed for trial on three charges of embezzling money. The frauds weie committed during the last few weeks, and the money taken amounted to a heavy sum. A sum will he placed ou the Estimates for the continuation of the northern line across the Huinnni, to a point where the traffic from the Amur! and Kaikaura district converges.

Auckland, June 2, Prom the 4th to the Slat May, 23$ cases of measles, two typhus, four scarlatina, and two scarlet fever are re-' ported to the city sanitary inspector.A number of school touchers are now absent from their duty, having measles’ or scarlatina in their houses. At Cambridge West, the ratepayers' poll being in favor of an increase of menses, a man applied for a license for the sixth time for his hotel. Bench refused, on the grounds that the license was not necessary,-