TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5385, 1 July 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press AGENCY.) ' ■ Auckland, Saturday. The brigantine Lady Don, bound from Oamaru for Waitara, with grain, was driven out of her course by stress of weather, and went ashore on Waikato Heads. The vessel and cargo are so far believed to be safe. She is a brigantine, 68 tons, insured in the New Zealand office for £7OO. The cargo is also insured—it is believed in the National. , -Mr. .Morris Clayton, surveyor, left for the wreck of the small coasting schooner Helen, with a Portuguese named Gomez aboard. This vessel is also believed to be lost. She was insured in the South British for £IOO. The fishing yacht supposed to be lost has returned safely. The row over the grammar'school buildings has been settled by the occupation of the District Court as a school; Wahara, Saturday. Great preparations are being made for providing a free dinner to the natives on Monday next. . His Worship the Mayor has declared the day a public holiday. The meeting has just commenced.Nelson, Saturday. Four tons of copper ore from the newly discovered lode near the old Dun Mountain mine, were shipped by the Tasso to Newcastle to-day by J. Newport, the proprietor, i Christchurch, Saturday.

: While S. V. CroSse. dentist, was experimenting with vulcanite, it exploded, blowing Crosse some distance away, seriously injuring him. It is expected' he will lose the sight of one eye. . i The New: Zealand Shipping Company have received advices of the Wanganui being in the Channel on 27th June. 1 Mr* E. W. Stafford was a passenger by her.

The balance-sheet of the Union. Insurance Company was issued this morning. It shows t.he receipts from premiums to have been £42.355; from transfer fees, £lßs ; and interest, £791 ; total, £43,335. The expenditure has been : Kira and marine losses, £3799; preliminary expenses, £2473; stationery, £1263; re-insurances, £10,516; discounts, commissions, and charges, £11,140; leaving a profit balance of £14,143, which the directors recommend to be carried forward to next year. This report is considered very satisfactory. Dunedin, Saturday.

A complaint against the religious teaching in the South Dunedin school has been received by the school committee and referred to the special committee of management. Mr. A. J. Burns has resigned his seat for Roslya, for which Mr. Hubert Gillies will be a candidate.

Mr. IV. H. Gotten and Mr. W. Snow will contest Taieri. # A meeting of members of the Dunedin Bar met to-day to consider an article in the Times re the administration of justice at the Resident Magistrate's Court. Thirty-eight out of fortyseven attended. The following were absent i —Messrs. Denniston, Buchanan, and A Bathgate, who ar- connections of Judge Bathgate; Mr. Macasaey, the two Cooks, Mr. Sievwright, and Mr. Stout (Attorney-General). The meeting was not open to the Press; but it fs understood that a resolution was carried almost unanimously to the effect that there was ground for the ai'ticle, though owing to the difficulty of specific proof, no recommendation will be made to Government in the matter. Lawrence, Saturday. Another unusually heavy fall of snow took place this morning. Mining operations are consequently, in the present state of the weather, at a standstill.