TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5434, 27 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) - Auckland, Monday. William Kinley, a steerage passenger by the Lady Jocelyn, but not one of the Vesey Stewart party, went to bed last night helplessly drunk, turned on hia face, and was suffocated. Mrs. Robert A. Dargaville, sister-in-law of Mr. J. M. Dargaville, dropped dead to-day, while returning from Parnell Hill, of heart disease. . John Thomas Young has been committed for trial on the charge of uttering a forged order with intent to defraud Thomas Adair. The National Mortgage Investment Company has declared a dividend of 2£ per cent, for the half-year. A meeting was held at To Awamutu to-day for the purpose of urging Government to bring the railway terminus into tho township. It was resolved unanimously,—That it is very desirable that tho railway terminus should bo brought into the township, instead of being located, as proposed,at a distance of four miles therefrom. That tho meeting respectfully requests the Government to send an engineer to inspect tho locality, and report upon the subject. A committee was appointed to communicate the resolution, to Government and to Mr. Mo Minn, M.H.R. for Waipa. Napier, Monday. Yesterday a man named Thomas Hall attempted to commit suicide in the Wnipawa lock-up by cutting his throat. He severed the

windpipe, hut did not cut the artery. Ho was brought down to the Napier Hospital to-day. Ha(i had been taken to Waipawa from Hampdou on suspicion of being insane, but neither the doctor nor police .thought him so. Grahamstown, Monday, A fisherman named John Loby was found dead in bed to-day. A young man,.named Huly, whilst practising gymnastics," fell off' the horizontal bar on to the mattress beneath, and so injured his spine that he is not expected to recover. A meeting is being held to-night to urge the construction „of the Thames, Hamilton, and East Coast railway, surveyed some years ago, and appearing on maps of proposed lines laid before the House in 1876. The meeting is a very large one. Hokitika, Monday. The steamer Waipara went ashore on the south side of the new channel this morning. She is now discharging cargo, and will be got off on this evening’s tide. The Kennedy, which was off the bar at the time of the accident, would not venture in, and returned northwards. Christchurch, Monday. At a meeting of the Farmers’ Club on Saturday the following resolution was carried, — That this meeting protests against the action of the Government in remitting the duty on imported grain and flour, while retaining at the,same time the duties on timber, (jornsacks, &c., and they also think the duty will be very injurious to farmers. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce takes place on the same subject this afternoon. At the same meeting of the Farmers’ Club it was shown that the browing interest is endeavoring to secure the aid of other local industries,in bringing about ;a remission of the beer tax.

Special peace thanksgiving services were yesterday held in all the English churches. The Canterbury football team left Christchurch for Dunedin by first train this morning. The match is fixed for Wednesday. The following is the team chosen by the selection committee Baker, Bolton, Chapman, Fields, Goodman, Hamilton, Hamersley, Hamerfcon, Lewin, Milton, G, Potts, Peeves, Tavender, and Verity ; emergency—McArdell, Jones, and Lack. Dunedin, Monday. The ceremony of linking the last rail on the Dunedin and Christchurch line took place today, between Waikouaiti and Palmerston South, in the presence of 200 people. The ceremony was performed by Mr. Blair, assisted by Miss Macandrew and the Mayor of Dunedin. A luncheon took place afterwards. At a numerously attended meeting at Amberley oa Saturday night it was resolved to urge upon the Government the necessity of continuing the railway line from that place to the West Coast, and also to set apart reserves along the line of route, to pay for the cost of the work.

John Reynolds was to-day committed for trial on the charge of incendiarism at Courtenay. The Railway Department intend to open offices in town for the sale of railway tickets on the American system. The Railway Commissioner intends to visit America early next year in order to obtain a practical insight into the working of the American lines. The through train from Christchurch to Dunedin, with the members of both Honses and a body of invited guests, will leave here at six o’clock on Friday morning, and is to arrive at Dunedin at six o’clock, the same evening. The time of travelling will be about ten hours, allowing two for stoppages.

A man named John Gleoson was drowned at Dunedin jetty yesterday, while attempting, when in a state of intoxication, to cross to the vessel to which he belonged. Arrangements are to be made for holding a grand annual musical competition in Dunedin,

Thanksgiving services for the preservation of peace were held in all the Dunedin Anglican churches yesterday. Invercargill, Monday.

About fourteen pounds of quartz, both fine and coarse, the refuse of prospecting trials of Hare Bros', reef, were brought to town to-day. Portions of it were pulverised in a mortar and washed out at the Club Hotel. The gold obtained indicated a general return of 12oz. to the ton.