TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4842, 28 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Wednesday. A man named Hugh Rae, formerly proprietor of the Good Templar Hotel, Onohunga, was fined £IOO on two charges of sly _ grog Belling. He is supposed to have gone South, and a warrant has been issued for his apprehension. ■ • ' Arrived ; Hosannah Rose, from Dunedin, viaMoeraki. • ‘ Grahamstown, Wednesday. A distressing accident occurred thismormng. Ah infant;child, named William Seager, was run over by a tramway truck while' crossing a street,' and killed ' instantly. There was a driver and a breakman in charge, neither of whom saw the child.

An inquest an the body of a child run oyer on the tramway to-day was held at the Governor Bowen Hotel. After a long deliberation a verdict of accidental death was recorded. A rider was attached recommending that the rails be removed further from the footpath to allow the driver to walk nearer the side of his horses, and the breaksman on his own side.

Wanganui, Wednesday. The election passed off quietly. The following are the returns received up to 7 p.m. Wanganui : Fox, 181 ; Morgan, 116. Waverley : Fox, 37; Morgan, 24. Morangi : Fox, 7 ; Morgan, 6. Upokangaroa: Fox, 27 ; Morgan, 8. The Maxwell returns are not in. Westport, Wednesday. In the operations on the Matau yesterday the propeller was broken, and will need replacing before the vessel can be floated. She is so far in the water as to float fore and aft at high tide, but the weight of her engines amidships prevents her floating clear. Nelson, Wednesday.

At the Fire Brigade’s annual dinner a presentation was made to William Cooksey, by all the insurance companies of a handsome gold watch, on the occasion of his completing ten years’ service in the brigade. Christchurch, Wednesday. The East Christchurch School Committee have formally protested against the action of the Government in levying a rate of lid. in the £ for sohoolbuilding purposes. A new Presbyterian Church is to be built. It will cost £BOOO.

Dunedin, Wednesday. De Murska opened to a splendid house last night. The University buildings have again been offered to the City Council for £30,000. Messrs. Macandrew and Stout state as per Guardian this morning, that they would have obtained a most important and satisfactory compromise, that would have neutralised all the worst evils of abolition, had it not been for that wretched manifesto procured by the centralists by gross misrepresentations, and transmitted to Wellington, just at the time when many were wavering as to whether to support or oppose the desire of the representatives of Otago. It appears that arrangements are not yet complete for the lease of Forbury by the Jockey Club. The club threaten to hold their meetings at Taieri. Port Chalmers, Wednesday. Sir Julius Vogel will be presented with an address by the leading residents before leaving. Invercargill, Wednesday. The following memorial to the Premier is being largely signed:—“ We, the undersigned inhabitants of Invercargill and neighborhood, having heard that seventeen of the' Otago members of the House of Representatives have requested the Government to proclaim the whole of Otago a single county, beg respectfully to represent that such a step would be detrimental in the highest degree to the interest of the Southland district, the commercial centre of which is Invercargill, and its shipping port the Bluff ; and earnestly hope that the Government will oppose to the utmost this mischievous proposal, the result of which would be to entail upon the district for an indefinite period of. time all the worst evils from which it has hitherto suffered under the system of provincial centralism, and from which wo hope we are now 'about to escape dnder the promised system of real local selfgovernment which your memorialists understand the Government desire to substitute for the provincial regime." Upwards of 70 signatures were appended in two hours.