TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 810, 16 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

+ CHRISTCHURCH. November 15. At the sale of Mr. Redwood's horses yesterday the following were some of the prices realised :—Brood mares : Waimea, L4OO, Mr. Wansey ; Misfortune, 200 guineas. Mr. Cardale ; Malvino, 200 guineas, Mr Cardale ; Awatea, 275 guineas, Mr. Nosworthy : Puriki, \~'i guineas, Mr. Wansey. Young stock : Yearling chestnut colt by Daniel O'Rorko, 120 guineas, Mr. Page : bay colt Daniel O'Rourke, ISO guineas, Mr. Stead ; bay filly by Daniel O'Rourke. 110 guineas, Mr. O'Malley ; brown colt, by Castaway, 110 guineas ; chestnut colt, by Daniel O'Rourke, 110 guineas. Horses in training : Ariel, 300 guineas, Mr. Stead : Puriri, 300 guineas, Mr. Wansey ; Mata, 475 guineas, Longlands. 225 guineas, Pinfire, 200 guineas, Mr. Stead ; Orange Lightning, 100 guineas, Mr. Wansey 7 Repo, 200 guineas, Mr. M'Donald (Wagner) ; Waieti. 325 guineas, Mr. Stead ; Bribery, 200 guineas, Mr. Neilson ; York, 475 guineas, Mr. Prijchard (Dunedin). Mr. Thomson, the present Mayor, announces his intention to contest the Mayoralty with Councillor Ick, this year. The Yen. Archdeacon Harper last evening delivered a very interesting lecture on Bishop Selwyn. The match between eight of the Invercargill Rifles and eight of the Christchurch City Guards resulted as follows :—Christchurch, 339 ; Invereargill, 351. A deputation waited on Col. Whitmore today on the subject of the defence of Lyttelton. The Colonel said that the guns would bo out by the end of the year. He scouted the idea of any attack on a New Zealand port, and said that even if such did take place the people would soon get used to it. At a Conference afterwards hold with the Charitable Aid Board, the district of Amuri and Cheviot were taken into the Christchurch boundaries.

A strong north-wester has been blowing all clay. Mr. G. Stead., who purchased Ariel and Longlands at Mr. Redwood's sale yesterday, has scratched both for the Oamaru Cup. A fearful nor'-wester has been blowing all day long. The Waimakariri is rising, and it is now pretty certain that the river will effectually stop all traffic on the north line until the new bridge in course of construction is completed, and will probably cut out an entirely new channel through Stewart's Gully. November 16. The new steam tug for the Lyttelton Harbor Works has arrived at Brisbane. It left again 011 the 13th inst., and is expected here on the 23rd. Yesterday it was resolved by the Harbor Board to ask the Government to grant a site for a Sailors' Home, the Board giving LSCO towards the establishment of the same. The first of the Rifle Association's prize firings is taking place to-day. The body of Luff has not yet been recovered. It is thought that it has been swept out to sea. The Press this morning is very severe on C'ol. Whitmore with regard to liis remarks that the people would soon get accustomed to bombardment. The gale yesterday seems to have been pretty general thrqughout the Province. It did no damage in town. TIMARU. November 15. A frightful fatal accident occurred at 11.30 this morning. A roof blew off a house near Ormsby's flour mill, taking the chimney with it. The fall of tlie latter caused the death of an infant 7 months old, and of Mrs. Drew, its mother, who died about ten minutes after. Drew is a most respectable head miller at the mill in question. Great sympathy is felt for him in hi 3 sudden bereavement. November 16. An inquest on the bodies of Mrs. Drew and infant was held to-day before R. Beetliam, Esq., Coroner. A verdict of accidental death was returned, and the jury added a rider strongly animadverting on the construction of buildings similar to the one wherein the accident occurred. They requested tlie Coroner to forward to proper quarters a recommendation that the erection of buildings should be properly supervised in the future. It came out in the evidence that the roof had not been connected in any way with the walls of the building. AUCKLAND. November 15. Fifteen chiefs and priests have arrived from the King Country en route from Raglan to open a Hauhau chapel in the Aotea district. At the Waste Lands Board meeting, Mr. Firth protested against the cancelling of the Broomliall contract, saying that only onethird of the land is fit for small settlers, the remainder being hills or swampland requiring a considerable outlay of capital. Two applications for land for special settlement—one from Australia from a number of Germans—were submitted to the Land Board, In both cases replies were

sent thai the Boa: :l had 110 power to set apart land for such purposes. A strong feeling exists here at the delay in proceeding with the public works during the present fine weather, and monster public meetings are on the tapis. It is probable that the Auckland Volunteers_ will not go to the Rifle Association meeting at Nelson, owing to the refusal of the Government to issue regulation rifles to them, the same as those held by the southern volunteers. The Government require the Aueklanders to purchase those rifles if they want to change the weapons they have. Mr. Coleman, a solicitor, has been elected Mayor of Parnell. The Board of Education have received instructions from the Minister of Education that LIB,OOO have been allotted for school buildings in this district. WELLINGTON. November 15. The District Court opened for the first time to-day in the old Provincial Council Chamber. Owing to the bad accommodation at the Resident Magistrate's Court, it is thought that Court will also be held in the same chamber as the District Court until such time as the new court-house is built. The Hinemoa, with the Governor on board, has arrived from Lyttelton. It is said that Mr. Hales, who has been instructed under the provisions of the Tramways Act to report upon the Wellington city tramway, discovers that the tram cars are wider than the Act permits, and that he also condemns the use of steam as a motive power in the narrower thoroughfares. The statement, however, is not authoritative. The Chamber of Commerce are in communication with the Premier regarding the establishment of a Sailor's Home for Wellington. Three hundred acres of the Okotuku block have been sold for L 237 ss, or nearly 300 per cent, above the upset price. GRAHAMSTOWN. November 15. The King's Prime Minister writes to the County Council, asking them not to proceed with the road works through Tukumaki and other lands for the present. The Government have amalgamated the office of Mining Inspector with that of Goldfields Surveyor, now held by Mr. J. M. M'Laren, thus saving L3OO a year.