TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 485, 19 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FKO.M TIIK INiKSK AOKNCY.)

WELLINGTON. November IT.

The Mayor lias received a communication from ihe Government to the elicet that in future all sums forwarded for the Indian Famine Relief Fund will be teljgranliod to L mdon free of charge. In all 'L2OOO has been telegraphed Home from here. An attempt h being made to establish a Deep-sea Fishing Company. It is intended to carry on trawling at Port Underwood, and to have a curing aud smoking shed there. It is stated on good authority that the value of property destroyed by the Gishorne fire is equal to the total amount of fire insurance premiums paid to the vr.rioiis insurance companies at Gisborne and Napier during the las; two years. Only two candidates were nominated for Mayor to-day—Mr. Joe Dransfield, three times Mayor before, and Mr. George Elliott Barton. Mr. Hutchison, the present Mayor, declined tiie contest this year. November 19.

The chairman of the Wallace County Council has telegraphed from Riverton to the Colonial Secetary, stating that the mining-population at Onepuki, owing to the late bad weather, c >uld not communicate by boat to obtain provisions, and were in consequence in great distress for want of the commonest necessaries of life. He asked that the Siella might be ailowi d to take provisions to Onepuki. Col. Wliitmore has telegraphed to Capt. Fairchild to do so. NELSON. November 19. A fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon to Mr. M-tjoribank, a resident at Wainiea, who, w.ien driving home, stooped f >rward to whip Lis horse, but lost his balance, and fell from the box of the vehicle, lighting on his head, and uipturing a blood-vessel in lis brain. He was driven home, aud died two hours after. T le salmon ova is all hatched, and the fish are strong and healthy.