TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 768, 27 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■ j «. ■! WELLINGTON. ' j Uepteiitbev 'Si■ ' The Corporation of Wellington have ! decided to provide a site upon which to '■ erect a Sailors' Home. The Government : will contribute LSOO towards the erection. The Lyttelton Harbor Bill has been passed by the House of Representatives with slight amendments. * CHRTSTCHURCLT. September 25. Tickets for the Rifle Association concert to-morrow are going off very fast. Chaplin, the tragedian, is meeting with great success, and is drawing full houses. A heavy north-westerly gale prevailed during the day. It is oppressively hot, and a, flood in several rivers is anticipated. During the gale the new Presbyterian church at Liucoln, lately erected at a cost of L 750, was levelled to the ground. A goods shed on the line was also blown down. The Commissioner of Railways left in a special train at 5 o'clock to visit the scene. ♦ AUCKLAND. i September 25. A daughter of Mr. Frency, Railway Stationmaster at Remuera station, was knocked down by a horse and her thigh fractured. A heavy mass of scoria in a pit at Mount Eden fell on a carter named Wilson. When he was extricated it was found that his thigh was fractured. H.M.S. Nymphe has arrived from the Chatham Islands. The natives of Chatham Islands caught and cured about fifteen hundred alba-1

tresses, which they intend to send to 'Taranskij per Omaha, for the great native meeting to be held next March.; When the jSymphe was anchored at Hick 3 Bay on Monday isst,_it was reported that the natives at Waiapu had quarrelled and formed two hostile parties, each taking possession of a pah, and maintaining a warlike attitude. The chief William Barton has used his influence with his tribe to secure the capture of the murderer Hikori if he should return to the vicinity. * INVERCARGILL. September 2G. The second animal exhibition of the Southland Poultry. Dog, and Fancy Bird Association opened to-day, and was a success. The exhibits were numerous and of a high quality, especially in game birds. Tremendous Hoods have occurred in the valleys of the Oreti and Mataura Pavers. 'Both overflowed their banks, and washed away portions of the railway line, two and a half miles beyond Benmore, on the Kingston line. Between Parara and Eyre Creek half-a-mile of ballast was washed away, near Kingston, and the embankment at Fairlights is going. A rumor has just reached town that the Oreti rose sis feet this afternoon, washing away the embankment on the other aide, near the railway bridge of the Riverton line, and, it is said, drowning all Mr. Cowie's sheep that were on the low land. The floods were quite unexpected. The weather has been fine here, with only a little rain on Tuesday, but what there was being warm doubtless brought the snow down. A great many applications for land came before the Waste Lauds Board today, moat of them being granted.