TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5770, 26 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(per press agency.) Auckland, Thursday. The discovery of gold bearing 1 stone is rumored at Cambridge, Waikato. A man named Sheridan Hall has been arrested, charged with forging a telegram, for the purpose of defrauding Caultou of the Albert Hotel, of £4O. The case was remanded, the accused being too ill to take his trial. Iharara, a very influential chief of Ngatimaniapoto and Wharau, nephew of Kewi, died at Rotorua last night. The natives report a valuable find of petroleum springs at Te Paeroa, Lake country. Grakamstowx, Thursday.

A correspondent writes to the Thames Advertiser “ That he learns one of our local candidates is recommended to this electorate by an Auckland evening contemporary, on the score of services rendered and honors won as a borough representative at Wellington. What the services referred to are perhaps may be known in Auckland, but the Thames residents have failed to evince their sense of them as yet, but doubtless will do so should the gentleman in question go to the poll.” Dr. Kilgour has positively declined to stand for the vacant seat.

John Leydon, auctioneer, has been elected a member of the Harbor Board, vice Captain Davies, the late chairman, now harbormaster. The contract for the railway bridge at Kaueranga has been accepted. Mr. Alexander Watson is the successful tenderer at £763 10a.

An engineer named Gubb yesterday rose in good health, but broke a blood vessel while coughing, and fell down dead. The supply of arms sent from here to the out-settlers about Waitoa has arrived safely. Turakina, Thursday. The Rangitikei Adcucate announces this morning that Mr. McMinn, the editor of that paper, has instructed his solicitor to demand an apology and withdrawal of certain statements made in the Wellington Chronicle, alleged to be malicious, defamatory, and false, otherwise legal proceedings will be taken against the proprietors Messrs. Curie, Anderson, and Anderson. Hokitika, Thursday. A sad accident has happened at Greek’s Gully, Ahaura, by which two boys named Wilson, aged respectively 6 and S years, lost their lives. They were playing on a terrace 45 feet high, when the bank gave way and they were buried under the fallen earth. An hour and a half elapsed before they were extricated, when life was found to be extinct. Christchurch, Thursday. Messrs. Gapes, Ayers, and Ick (the present Mayor) will probably be candidates for the Mayoralty. Two others are mentioned, but they have not signified their intentions. The imported English mare Petroleus last week threw a fine colt foal to Leolinus at Russley. This is the first progeny of Mr. Stead’s horse. Acceptances for the Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap are due before S p.m. on Wednesday. Some 2800 trout are to be liberated m various streams throughout Canterbury, in terms of resolutions passed at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society. The Eakaia branch railway is progressing. The engine travels over twelve miles already. This railway opens up a large country on the The annual meeting of the Canterbury Cathedral Guild was held to-night. Last Saturday night Mr. Duckworth, grocer, Hi"h-street, was returning home to his residence at Sumner, and when some distance on the road he was attempted to be stuck up by a man masked, who presented a pistol at him. Mr, Duckworth and his companion escaped by the speed of his horse. Lyttelton, Thursday.

The immigrant ship Waitangi arrived this evening, all well. During the voyage out a second-class passage steward and the cook s mate broached stores, and had a naked light on the top of the powder magazine. Both have been put under arrest. One of the passengers is charged with a breach of the Bth and -Ist clauses of the regulations, and will most probably be proceeded against. J Dcnidin, Thursday.

The Education Board decided that the new scale of teachers’* salaries come into force on Ist of October. . , , , At a meeting of the Education Board to-day it (was decided that an amended scale of salaries for teachers should come into operation on October 1. . , , . A telegram was received m town to-day that good stone had been struck in the Golden Fleece mine at 620 ft. from the surface. True if true, overthrows Dr. Hectors dictum that deep leads would not be found m hew Zealand. . . , ~ .. Aloes’s method of raising and distributing soil has K- n adversely reported on by the Harl j'o ;. V s engineer at the Harbor Boar '; ■ ’ P to-day. A letter was read from;. t , . n.m aster, who requested[the Board to ask Government to give publicity to the Nautical Assessor’s objection to the trate’s decision in the ship Benares case, the reason for making the application h e - D S tnat the decision as at present stood before the public rendered his action in carrying oat the

duties of his office very much hamper-d. The Marine Departm-nt have pfini-d to s-n l it to the JJ >.»rd as m-:i a-> tiny received it from the magistrate.