TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5837, 13 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

i (PER PBE33 AGENCY.) ! Auckland, Friday, t A telegram has been received announcing that Father Chiniquy will leave Sydney for 3 Auckland on the 23rd instant. Mr. Dempsey’s laborers and carter- 1 , failing , to obtain payment of their overdue wages, have struck work. They have engaged a solicitor, with the intention of seeing for the money in the Resident Magistrate’s Court next J week. The aggregate amount of their claims I is £771. Mr. Hanna, President of the Glasgow ChamL ber of Commerce ; Mr. Mason, of Glasgow ; and Mr. Clark, the well-known thread manufacturer, arrived by the Rotorua. They are making a tour of the colonies. ’ Rewi is said to be so ill as not to be likely to recover. Preparations for raising the steamer Taupo are still being pushed on, and the trial trip may be expected shortly, when the sand and rocks have been cleared away by the divers from the inside of the vessel. The California pumps will be started, and if, with the assistance of a few men, any advantage can be gained ou the water, powerful engines will be obtained, and it is expected that by these means the vessel will be safely raised. The Chinese cook of the steamer Argyle was arrested to-night on a charge of robbery of a gold watch and chain, £5, and other property from the mate of that vessel. Gbahamstown, Friday. The Alburnia mine struck gold in the lower level. There are brisk sales of scrip at 80s., 825., and 855.; buyers, 82s. 6d. Palmerston, Friday. It is stated that Mr. Piers Warburton, the coroner for the district, intends to lodge a complaint against Constable Price, of Feildiog, for not reporting the late case of incendiarism, with the view of holding an inquiry. Wanganui, Friday. Cagliari Antonio was committed for trial for assaulting Dr. Earll and setting fire to the racecourse fence. A movement is on foot to erect a memorial fountain to Mr. W. H. Watt, for his gift to the town of Weatmere Lake. Christchurch, Friday. The first sod of the first section of the Canterbury tramway from the railway station to Cathedral-square was turned ye-terday. The contractor will work by limelight to get finished by the 15th January next. The tramway cars are expected to run about the first week in February. Yesterday, at the Good Templars’ meeting, a resolution was passed calling attention to the continued breach of the law forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors to children sent by their parents to public-houses. As there was a large amount of drunkenness owing to this, a

resolution was passed urging' the necessity of strictly attending to the matter. It was resolved, at last night a meeting of the Grand Templars’ Lodge, that next meeting should be held in Wellington on the second Tuesday in December. The Good Templar Grand Lodge concluded its session this morning. The last of the season’s agricultural shows was held to-day at Courtenay, and was highly successful. At the celebration of the golden wedding of the Primate to-day, a silver gilt service, bear-

incr a suitable inscription, was presented to Mrs. Harper by the ladies of Canterbury. The Sports Committee to-day voted £25 as a Christmas gift, to be divided between the hospital, industrial school, lunatic asylum, orphanage, and old men’s home. If the sports are a success financially the committee promise to consider favorably an increase in the grant to £SO, or £lO to each institution. There are now 1236 children in daily attendance at each of the Christchurch main schools. Dunedin, Friday. The annual exhibition at the School of Art opened to-day. 'I he Art Society’s exhibition will be opened to-morrow by Bishop Neville. Among the bankruptcies is George Atkinson, proprietor of the Evening Tribune. The Acclimatisation Society liberated 2000 trout in tbe Pomabaka Biver. At the public schools breaking-up for the holidays to-day there was a good attendance. Certificates m'v were given at the Dunedin schools. A bo;:iu_- at the Temperance Hall by professionals is the sensation for Saturday night. Township section speculation re-commences to-morrow.

Ashburton, Friday. At the meeting held at Chertsey yesterday afternoon, resolutions were passed denouncing the property tax and thanking Sir George Grey for his eft-vts in resisting the passing of the Bill