TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5342, 11 May 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PUB PKE33 AGENCY.) Auckland, Friday. The Rev. Mr. Hazelton arrived _ by the Zealandia. He is delegated by the Irish Wesleyan Conference to collect subscriptions to liquidate the balance ot the cost of the Dublin Wesleyan College. He has been very successful in America. A serious collapse occurred on tho extension of the Helenaville railway station at liaipara. 700 ft. of double piling, driven to support the earthwork along the river bank, gave way. The structure contained 200,000 ft. of totara, and was intended to carry 30,000 yards of earthwork, hut has given way under the weight of the first hundred tons. Oheistohdkoh, Friday. Connected with the agitation here for increasing the strength of the volunteers, a telegram was sent to the Government to-day with the view of ascertaining what facilities would be offered. A reply was received stating that until war is actually declared the Government do not feel justified in taking any steps regarding the volunteer or militia question. The Drainage Board to-day decided to adopt Mr. Clarke’s scheme for the drainage of Christchurch. The employes on the railway have decided to form a fire brigade. The yeomanry cavalry from Christchurch and country districts proceeded to Ashburton yesterday for six days’ drill. Dunedin, Friday. A meeting of the members of the Church of England was held last night to consider whether they would accept Bishop Neville’s offer, that if the diocese purchased the Little Bam estate of ten acres he would erect an episcopal residence on it at his own expense. It was resolved that, considering the circumstances of the diocese, the offer could not be accepted. Eighty tons of stone from the Gladstone Company’s reef at Arrow yielded 305 ounces of gold. A man named Power has been sentenced in the Police Court to three months’ hard labor for disobeying the order of tho Court to contribute to the support of his children in the Industrial School. William Patterson, a surface man, while working on the Blueskin railway line to-day, fell down from the cliff, and died in half-an-hour.