TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 867, 25 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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WELLINGTON". January 2~>. Messrs. lliseoeks and Hayman arc endeavoring t*> negotiate a long lease of the Theatre lioyal here to work in conjunction with the Christehurch ami Dunedin theatres by a circuit. The ship Hvderal>ad has been inove'i two lengths further seaward. A meeting of the City School Committees approved of the introduction of the penny batik system.

DUNKDIN". January 24. A telegram from the manager of the Cromwell Quartz-mining Company states that »>n Thursday a cake of gold, weighing ~:il oj»., obtained from $lB tons of stone. ;«td the result of three weeks' crushing, was brought into town. January '2: l.

The Attorney-General gives the opinion to School Committee.-* that in elections if the voting paper simply shows the name " John Smith," the candidate is only entitled to otic vote, and that if a voter dct»> give him inore than one vote he shmttri add the number after the candidate's name.

The anniversary of the Scottish poet. Httrrtst, was celebrated by a supper by the Avrahirc Association and an appropriate lecture l>v the Rev. 3lr. Inglis to a crowded audience. in the Queen's Theatre. The lecture abounded with Scottish anecdote and jwctry, and excited the utmost otithtu-sta-sm.

A •.v>rt!.-eh named Bridget Kane was convicted for the sixty-fourth time this uiorntng nf dnittkenness. Several beardless recruits have lately admitted to the police force. They tre making a raid on tlic vagrants of the city, and their evidence is of such nature ;»s t#> make the Bench Mush. Four thousand share 3 of L 5 each have been subscribed I>y property owners for the erection of a tramway to the Hill Side lands above Dunedin. it is expected tliis n iil largely advance the value of suburban property.

AUCKLAND. •January 25. In t . >[iitv«jt!ence of the disclosures in the rewsif prw?eesttion against 3lrs. Deborah H»»f. Xgaruawlita, r.n- travelling by train without paving her fare, the railway authorities have discharged Holmes, the stationmaster at Newmarket, and guards >1" Donald and Sampson. A successful concert, in aid of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum and the Belvedere Institution, came off on board the English ship May Queen. Three hundred persons were present. A splendid seam of coal has been discovered on the property of 3lr. Anderson, residing between Mangairiarino and Rmgiriri. Last evening, at a meeting of the Tonic j-'ol-fa Choral T'nion, th<- liev. J. Crump, nf Canterbury. delivered an address on the progress of this system of singing in the South, and said that a society was being formed in Christchurch for the purpose of ensuring greater amity of action amongst all believers in the Sol-fa system. The Iter. D. 31'Nicoli, of Invercargill, also detailed his experience. Early this morning three incendiary Srcs occurred in the Papatoitoi and Otahnhu districts. Rogers', Papatoitoi, hay and grain stacks were burnt. The loss is estimated at LIOOO. This is the second

time in four years that a fire has occurred here. Burnside'B stacks, estimated at LIOOO. Taylor's, Otahuhu, 30 tons hay. A vagrant is suspected. The police are in pursuit. The loss by incendiary fires in this district for the last four years is. L6OOO. Henry Sheldon, alias Thos. . Fidgett, was forested at Otahnhu on' a charge of causing this mornings was : formerly 1 a lieutenant im. thei.Royal Navy,- and -was .acquitted - ; at the;'late criminal sessions for .placing' oiastrjactions on the WaOcato railway. " - v - v IXVERCAEGILL. January 23.

The Mayor and Councillors of Dunedin were invited by the Jtlayor, Council, and Demonstration Committee to a banquet at the Albion Hotel yeste'rd'ay. The affair was a great success. The last visitors left for Dunedin this morning, being much pleased with the place and the treatment thev received.

Mr. Conyers has not yet recovered consciousness, but the symptoms have improved, and the wounds when re-dressed looked perfectly healthy.