TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 722, 2 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. Aug. 1. A Gazette to-night notifies the reservation i-f 000 acres in Waipori survey district for the Corporation of the Borough ••f fit. l\ilda ; and l'j poles of spctiop i. block 27. in the town, or Cromwell for tlie Boroiitrh of Cromwell. It is\iotified that, the Clutha Agricultural and Pastoral Society ia incorporated under the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act. Ciiief Jiif.tica Prenclergast is assigned :o the northerii judicial district, in conjunct'"" with -hi.lu'e <Tii]ie». Ml-. Henry M'Uullocb, R.M., is appointed Judge of the Assessment Court, under the Rating Act for Toe Toe and South Wyndham Road District. Mr. Hanson Tustin is appointed Deputy District Laud Register foy the District of Otairo. ifr. Watt, ii.M.j is appointed Chairman of the Lipensing Court, for the town an.! district of Port Chalmers. The Uowriioi- h;:.s disbanded the Clutha i';iv;:!ry Volunteers. The rate of freight ■>f ri>- 1 material on railways is fixed at Id. P-r !< n pi-r luih-. with iisinlinuiii oharue of os. :v.r truck of five tons load.

AUCKLAND. Aug. 1. There is still no sign of the Hawea, find considerable anxiety is manifested about her. Slie left (iisborne at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, wjrli a large .number of passenger*. A man named Michael Butler has been arrested, charged with kicking a neighbouring settlor named Callagluvn. causing rupture in the howels. Callaghan is d villi;. ♦ T.MABT. Aug. 1. The Customs revenue for tha mouth of •July amounted to L 253? 3s. Id., being an increase of Lll7l 18s. Id. on the corresponding month of last year.

DT7NEDIN. August 1. It transpired during the hearing of a case in the District Court, j-es-erday, in which D, {-rondfoot was thp defendant, that he got paid for nearly 4009 yards of metal on the Blueskin contract in excess of what he actually supplied to the Government. At a meeting of the Chamb.r of Commerce to-day, the qu ;stion oi direct steam communication with Great Britain was disci v»cd. The Chamber re:o'ved that it was not in p -.-session of §ufhcient information to enable it to come to a decision on the matter. The following resolutions were carried :—"That with regard to an insolvent declining to assign his estate or rile a'declaration of his inability to pay his debts, ho should be doelared insolvent on the petition of the bulk of his creditors presented to the Registrar." " That the provisions of the former Bankruptcy' Acts, as to the discharge of debtors in cases where dividends are less than 10s in the £'. shall be reyived." "That notices of bankruptcies shouldbe adyertised in the Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand, pro r viding it becomes a public newspaper." "That the law ought to provide that aj debtor on filing a declaration of inability' to pay his debts, should send a written notice of the same to each of his creditors." " That the recommendations mad

Inst year by the Wellington Chamber of Ciunmerce to the Government for the improvement in the machinery for arresting absconding debtors be again brought under the notice of the Hon. the Minister for Justice, with a request that,he will bring in a>Bill tc carry the same into effect." The Harbor Board to-day resolved, " That in the event of. the Government deciding to adopt the Hon. Mr. Macandrew's plan- for.-a railway station and goods station site, in opposition to the resolution of the Chamber of Commerce, City Council, and Harbor Board, carried unanimously on July 26th, this Board are of opinion that those local bodies should unite in applying to Parliament for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the whole question."