TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 760, 17 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

INYERCAR.GILL. ' September 16. A land furore is raging here. Speculators from Dunedin and Christchurch are buying up at fancy prices. A great deal of land, both Crown and private, has changed hands during this week, and it is said that the Waste Lands Board will be deluged with applications this week. Aa a rale, buyers are agreeably surprised with the quality of the land. A report came to the police this morning of a horrible murder at Waikawa. A man named Welsh is said to have killed his wife. Particulars not to hand. ASHBUIITON. September 16. A young man named Thomas Quin, of Clonmore, King's County, Ireland, got killed at Gould and Cameron's Springfield Station, through the horses which he was driving bolting, and the dray striking him on the head. Death was instantaneous. Quin was a stranger in the district, aged about 2C. It is only about 2h years since he came to the colony. An inquest will be held tomorrow.

CHRISTCHURCH. September 17. At a meeting held last night, a Committee was appointed to obtain signatures to a petition to divide the city into four wards.

James Smith haa been committed for trial, on a charge of attempting to set fire to two cottages in Christchurch, the property of Dr Syms. The municipal elections for the return of five City Councillors is fixed for the 7th October. At the meeting last night there was a bare quorum. The Christchurch share of the expense in the Municipal Conference recently held in Wellington is nine guineas. A reserve of 800 acres has been granted to the City by the Government.

HOKITIKA. September 17. The Board of Education, which has been in a very straightened financial position for some months past, has resolved upon reducing the salaries of teachers. The officers of the staff are generally dissatisfied, and the best teachers are likely •. it-sign. The Board is also threatened i>y creditors, and its account at the Bank is overdrawn several thousand pounds. Unless early assistance is afforded, the whole educational system must be seriously jeopardised.