TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5054, 5 June 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Dunedin, Monday. Mr. Blair, District Engineer, has been instructed by the Government to make a reconnaissance survey for a railway to the interior, ami report on the relative merits of the various routes. The Caledonian Society’s classes are closed to new pupils. The attendance now amounts to 400. The preliminary examination at the Otago University for medical students commenced on Saturday. Only one candidate was present. A stable containing five horses, in Maclag-gan-street, the property of Mr. Fitzgerald, was destroyed by fire last night. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £IOO. The estimated loss is £3OO, Blenheim, Monday. The Marlborough Racing Club ou Saturday evening declined to adopt the New Zealand rules. Masterton, Monday. The Rev. J. C. Andrew resigns his seat in the House at once. Mr. Geo, Beetham will stand, and two others are expected to come forward. Christchurch, Monday. The Governor on arrival at Lyttelton will he received by the Volunteers, a guard of honor, Artillery salute, &o. On arriving at Christchurch his Excellency will be met by the Mayor and City Councillors, by whom he has been invited to luncheon. The Mayor requests the citizens to observe a general holiday in honor of his Excellency’s visit. Serious complaints are made here against the dilatoriness and inefficieucy of the money order department of the Post Office. Steps are being taken to establish a coursing club. A large number of members have been already obtained. Gheymodth, Monday. A digger named Watson, working ou the North Beach, in the course of a drunken melee bit off the nose of a mate named Williams, and then burned down the tent. Williams is in great danger, as he had been previously beaten over the head with a billet of wood by the same party. Watson has been committed for trial at the District Court. The Wealth of Nations Quartz Company yielded 486 ozs. 12dwts. smelted gold for the month of May. A dividend was declared of three shillings per scrip. A trial was made during the week of Joseph Kilgour’s patent gold saving brush at the GoldeuEleeceßxtended Company’s works. The trial was thoroughly satisfactory; the result being a saving of lOozs. 12dwts. amalgam per week, which would have beeu carried off by water in the usual manner and lost. Auckland, Monday. The Commissioners of Inquiry into the Gaol Department report tuat the buildings are unsuitable. It transpired that the prisoners are occasionally allowed matches. The report points out the danger of fire, owing to want of space, and the prisoners being associated in cells at night. The report recommends the erection of new buildings, and expresses approval of the task system audof exertion money. Returns by the (governor are attached to the report for the year ending March 31st, 1576, which show a total value of prison labor of £9939 ; expenditure on salaries and contingencies, £5362 ; surplus, £4576. David King, Hugh McKenzie, and Duncan McKenzie were charged with rape ou a woman aged seventy, and remanded. The missing barque Glimpse was seen off Kaipara Heads. The Kate McGregor, which went ashore on Point Waikato, has beeu floated off, aud is now alongside the wharf for repairs Cable news has been received in the colony of the floating of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand. The husi ness will he similar to that of the Loan aud Mercantile Agency Company. Capital, two millions. A number of shares have beeu reserved for the colony. Its hankers are the National.