TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 817, 25 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

«, WELLINGTON". November 23. Walter Bishop, of Christchurch, has written us a long letter, detailing the circumstances connected with the effects of the late Mr. Manson, who died in the Wellington I Hosjrital some time since. Bishop entirely [ exonerated the Hospital authorities and Mrs. Gillispie from any charge of improper action in the matter, and testifies that he received nothing but courtesy and proper treatment! at their hands. The report of Mr. Hales, the Inspector appointed by the Governor to report on the tramway, is unfavorable to the use of steam, and refuses to issue a certificate in consequence of the carriages and engines being eight inches wider than allowed by the Tramway Act. November 25. The Government have sent to the AgentGeneral to send out an instructor for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. «. CHRISTCHURCH. November 25. The Collector of Customs notifies that all applications from merchants and others for refunds must be sent in before the Ist December, A meeting of the proposed Canterbury Tenrperance League is to be held at the Provincial Council Chambers on Thursday next. All the leading Good Templars in the town will be present. The Hon. Robert Stout is also expected. By the capsizing of a boat in the Lyttelton Harbor on Saturday, Thomas Hancourt, the keeper of the Quarantine Island, was drowned, On Saturday Mrs. Hayes, of fiigeon Bay, was thrown from her trap and broke her thigh bone. She is not expected to live. * NEW PLYMOUTH. November 23. The Hon. J. Macandrew telegraphs that he will visit Auckland next month. The daughter of Captain Fernandez was severely bitten in the scalp to-day by a halfbred bloodhound. The sufferer is in a critical state. November 25. The Native Minister 'went to Waitara yesterday and saw Rcwi, who gave him a very friendly reception. It is said tiiat Rewi will come into town to-day to see Mr. Sheehan.

A large and influential deputation waited on the Native Minister thjs morning wit.h reference to the holding of the sule of the Waimate Plains at New Plymouth. Mr. Sheehan said lie would communicate the vi-hes of the deputation to the department, hut thought that the sale might be hold in Wellington. The deputation also, sked that a thousand immigrants might be sent to Taranaki, as well ius 250 single girls as servants, as there was great 'careity of all kinds labor in Taranaki. This Mr. Sheehan said he would attend to, and as it was feared there would not be labor enough to get in the harvest that some men might be sent here from Otago and the West Coast.