TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4546, 15 October 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Gisborne, Thursday.

At a dinner given by the Celtic Club at Ormond about 500 people were present. Fifteen waggons left Gisborne for the scene, and on the way one upset, breaking the legs of tivo of the passengers, who were brought to town immediately, and placed under the care of Dr. Gold.

The prize-fight between Paul Prou, a thorough Hauhau, and a Chinaman, occurred through the Celestial proposing the health of the Chinese people. The Chinaman was frightfully punished. A war dance took place afterwards, at which about fifty natives took part. Alexandra, Thursday.

There was a great rush here to-day from Te Kuiti. No fewer than thirty-eight canoes are now at the beach with large cargoes of wheat and maize.

New Plymouth, Thursday.

The Waitara and New Plymouth railway was opened to-day. Miss Carrington christened the engine "The Fox." The first train started at 9.15, taking about a hundred people. Onitsarrivalatthe Waitara theDeputy-Superin-tendent declared the railway open, and in his speech spoke eloquently on the benefits to be derived from the public works policy of Sir Julius Vogel. The train then took the party back to town. To-day was proclaimed a public holiday, and trains ran free during the day. The first free train took 400 people to the Waitara. The Brogdens give a ball this evening, to which a large number of persons are invited. All the public offices were closed except the post and telegraph offices. Cheistchurch, Thursday.

Reports submitted at the annual school meeting just held,* show a widespread and very strong dissatisfaction at the management of educational matters by the present Minister for Education, and there is a general desire to see the Board of Education reinstated. Dunedin, Thursday. A serious accident occurred at the Dunedin railway station this afternoon. One of the railway porters named Andrew Drake was engaged at the goods shed assisting to discharge goods into the delivery drays, "when a box, weighing about half a ton, which Drake had on a truck, overbalanced, and fell back on him. The box struck him on the leg and broke it.

A meeting of the Guardian shareholders was held yesterday. It was resolved that a further call of £1 per share should be made, which would produce £3OOO, and make the amount per share called up £4 10s. on £5 shares. The shareholders expressed their approval at the literary improvement in the paper, and considered its position on the whole satisfactory. The balance-sheet shows a loss for the year of £I7OO, and outstanding debts due to the company over £3OOO. Invercargiix, Thursday.

The Local Board of Health met to-day to consider a letter from one of the medical men, to the effect that six children in one family were suffering from scarlet fever. The family in question number fourteen, and occupy a small house near a quantity of stagnant water. The Board resolved to cleanse and quarantine the "house and take other precaxitionß. The case of scarlet fever formerly reported is progressing favorably.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Donedin, Thursday.

A large and influential meeting of the Guardian shareholders was held in the lower hall of the Athenoeum yesterday, when it was unanimously resolved that a further call of £1 per share be made, amounting altogether to £3OOO. The explanation made was that, in order to raise the tone of the paper it was necessary to make some outlay, and that when the price of the paper was raised a penny few if any subscribers had left, while the increase of revenue would be considerable. The statement was received by the shareholders as a satisfactory explanation of the loss last year. The shareholders expressed their approval at the literary improvement in the paper, and considered its position on the whole satisfacfactory.