TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5768, 24 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Dunedin, Tuesday. Mr. Stewart, being engaged in professional business at Waimate, will not reach Wellington before Friday. Christchurch, Tuesday. At an adjourned inquest on the body of the child found in the Avon, the jury returned a verdict that the child had been stiil-born. Forty-two of the unemployed were sent to the Weka Pass railway works to-day. A conference of the resident magistrates of the district has recently been held on the subject of the scale of Court fees. It is understood that they will recommend several reductions, particularly iu reference te the issue of judgment summonses. The barque Messenger was insured for £3OOO in the New Zealand office, the coals being insured for £275 in the same office. The vessel had been partially surveyed while unloading, and it was the intention of Mr. Turner, the owner, to have had a more detailed survey made, on her return from Newcastle, preparatory to insuring her for £4OOO or £SOOO.

At Kaiapoi to-day Jane Mahoney, charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £lO, was committed for trial.

For contempt of Court at Kaiapoi W. Gingarven, who first neglected to obey a summons as witness, and when riprimanded, laughed at the Bench and refused to apologise, was fined £2 or 48 hours’ imprisonment. Palmerston North, Tuesday. It was reported in town to-day that one of a party surveying 12,000 acres at Fitzherberton reached the top of the range on Sunday, and distinctly saw Masterton in the distance. The news created much excitement, as it has always been believed there was a low saddle across the hills. New Plymouth, Tuesday. Edward Evans was this morning committed to take his trial at the Supreme Court for feloniously firing a pistol at his wife and child, with intent to kill, Tiharu, Tuesday. David Leach, who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of being concerned in the recent fire at Temuka, was released the same evening as be clearly proved that he was at Geraldine at the time the fire occurred. The Borough Council are considering the possibility of reducing the salaries of the staff, with a view to practising all possible economy in order to retrieve their financial position. The weather has improved again. Oamaru, Tuesday, Tne telegram published a few days ago stating that two men were drowned in Ohau river is incorrect, but a JMrs. Morrison and child were drowned through the upsetting of a trap in the river. A man named Morrison, with bis wife and child, were leaving their Ohau station for Omarama, en route for Oamaru, Mr. Stronach, station manager, consented to take them across the river iu a trap, and while in the river the trap capsized. Stronach and Morrison got ashore, but the woman and child were drowned.

Gr.uiamstowx, Tuesday. Intelligence has just been received here that the disaffected tribes are erecting two large pahs in a strong position. ■ A meeting of the Liberal Association was held last night at the Pacific Hotel. Mr. G. N. Brassy was elected chairman by 42 votes, against 29 for Mr. Carpenter and 5 for Dr. Kilgonr. The following resolutions were passed ;—“ That no member of the association is eligible to hold office or to be a member of .niuuttes unless he be a supporter of Sir G. (livy and his policy as now declared.” “ That in addition to the policy enunciated in the Governor’s speech, this association takes cognisance of all anti-promoters measures of a liberal character which may be introduced into Parliament, and will bring them before the public for discussion in public meetings.”

The meeting then closed, and shortly afterwards Mr. S. Stephens gave public notice of his intention to move at the next meeting,— “That the native policy of the Government is vacillating and humiliating to the colonists of Xeiv Zealand and a direct insult to the British Crown, in that her Majesty's laws are set at defiance, the lives of her subjects endangered, and threatened by the natives, and that the present Government are unwilling or incapable to enforce the statutes for the protection of life and property.