TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5720, 30 July 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(from obr own correspondent.) .. New Plymouth, Tuesday.

Considerable satisfaction is expressed every where at the result of the division, and at the Grey Ministry being in s« largo a minority. A meeting is being held at Inglewood to consider Mr. Carrington’s conduct in deserting his colleagues and voting with the Government. No report of the result of the meeting has reached me yet, but knowing the feeling of the people in that district on the question, there is little doubt but that similar resolutions to those at Waitara will be passed. A petition has been drawn up to be presented to the House to the effect that as Mr. Carrington does not represent the electors, he be requested to resign by the Governor, that the district may be represented by some one in whom they have confidence. It is being numerously signed by the electors of Grey and Bell. (PHU PRESS AGENCY). Auckland, Tuesday. A meeting of MoMinn’s former election committee is being held at Waikato to consider what future action should be taken.

An influential meeting has been held at Auckland, and it was resolved to form a political association, to be called the “ North Auckland Association.” Lord Loftus was a passenger by the mail steamer, and was welcomed by the Mayor. In the trans-continental journey, at Michigan city, the train in which his Lordship and his two sons wjre travelling ran off the track, and the party narrowly escaped a serious accident. Some passengers were slightly injured, but the car that contained the vice-regal party did not leave the rails. Christchurch, Tuesday. s A boy named O’Connor fell overboard from the barque Dochra on the passage from Glasgow, and was drowned. \ A farmer named Gordon is supposed to have -been lost in a snow storm on Saturday week, near Ashburton, Barnard was remanded to Kaiapoi. The landlord of the Albion Hotel was fined £lO for permitting gambling in his house. No trace has yet been discovered of the missing farmer Gordon. He leaves a wife and fourteen children. The nominations for the Canterbury Cup, Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap, and Welcome Stakes close at eight o’clock on Friday evening. Westport, Tuesday. The community is somewhat excited over the question as to the site of the new post and telegraph offices. The Government having remitted the question to the Mayor, a public meeting resolved to put the question to a vote, but the Borough Council, at a special meeting yesterday, passed a. resolution by five to four, that the corner of Brougham and Palmerston streets, being close to the wharves, railway, and Government Buildings, was the most convenient site. The lower township residents are now opposed. Timabu, Tuesday. _ A man named Laurie with a serious accident to-day. He, with four others, was working at a pile-driving machine on' the beach, and when the monkey fell the handle of the winch struck him on the head, inflicting a ; nasty wound. He now lies in a precarious state. There is no news yet of the two men missing in the Mackenzie country. David Owens, lately storekeeper at Timaru, was charged at the Resident Magistate’s Court to-day with fraudulent bankruptcy, and remanded, Dunedin, Tuesday. A shocking accident occurred on the Southern railway this afterneon, a woman having been killed by the train near the rail way bridge, at Henley. The woman appeared to be middle-aged. One of her legs was severed from the body, and carried a distance of nearly a chain. The body was conveyed to the Dunedin hospital, where an inquest will be held.

A fire occurred at Mount Pleasant, near Caversham, this afternoon. A house was destroyed, owned by Henry Kippo. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £240.

The City Council to-day voted £2OO towards the experiment with Ashbury’s system of heating and ventilating buildings.