TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 905, 11 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. March 10. An elderly man named Matthew 3laban. supposed to have been recently manager : of a station in the Walrarapa, was found :dead in hi* bed at the boarding-house where he- was staying, this morning. An open pocket-knife- was clutched firmly in his hand, and with this he seems to have ; inflicted a fatal wound in hi* left side 'etoito to the- heart. He had Wen drinking : heavily lately. A writ tw recover penalties for having improperly taken payment f»>r his services as a member of the Wharf Committee of ; the City Council has been served on Cotin- ; eillor CSreenftctd. This is a test suit t»» Settle the question. The case will be heard by the R.M., bat there certain to be an appeal to* a higher Court. DUNKDIN. March JIX ! At the annual meeting of the Standard i Insurance Co-, to-day. the report and balance-sheet were adopted. 31essrs. tteyse and Baxter were re-elected direc- : tors. The- report included a dividend at ;the rate of 10per cent., absorbing L3,7f>o; ! whit© OS>,2w© was carried forward to the ! credit of profit and loss new account. The ; Chairman said the company had been in ; existence six years, during which time j there had been a net profit of L 55,611, ; which htts been applied as follows, viz. : Payments of dividends to shareholders, ;L!S,UI, of which L 12,0©0 has been ' capitalised: carried to reserve fand, 02,500; paid in bonuses to insurers, : L499P; and the balance now to the credit of profit and loss account is L 23,010. A man named Thomas Barry, engaged at the theatre as property man, poisoned himself with strychnine this afternoon. CHMSTCHURCH. March 10. Mr. G3Utt,of ptmsandc], on the aouth bn«, has hoggMl t% UuhaU per sere from a five-acre paddock of barky.

A man was killed in the Heathcote Valley to-day by a fall of clay at one of the brickworks. The grain carried during the week ended Saturday on the Christchurch section from all stations, amounted to 112,533 bag 3. A special train had to be ran yesterday on the Opawa branch line to prevent a block. AUCKLAND. March 10. A man named Roberts, in the employ of the Auckland Sawmill Company at their works at Freeman's Bay, met with a dangerous accident to-day. He was working at one of the saw benches, when a slab sprung suddenly against the splash-board, and struck him on the forehead, inflicting a very nasty wound. He was subsequently attended to by Dr. Purchas, and is expected to recover. William Hayes, a carter at Oncliunga, has been committed for trial for stealing a watch and chain worth LlB 10s from a person named Carroll. Another native difficulty has occurred in Northern Wairoa. A bush 50 miles op the river belongs to the Te Kopuru Sawmill, and an influential native has. torn up the tramway. The reason alleged by the natives is that the bush was purchased for felling kauri only, but kahikatca is being also taken. Commissioner Kemp has the aflatr in hand. HOKITIKA. March 10. All the material for the construction of the lighthouse was received yesterday, by ttio Kennedy. 3lr. Barff, M.H.R., after being telegraphed and written to by the Jackson's Bay Commissioners to attend the Court, made no reply. He was subptenaed, when he replied—" Utterly unable to travel. Have posted written statement, with suggestions. *' INVERCAKGILL. March 10. A Provincial concert by the garrison band came off to-night. It was in aid of Kaitangata Kvitcf Fund, and proved a great success. The workmen of Messrs. Angus and Co., brickmakers, «!tc, have subscribed L2l to the Kaitangata fund, while the men employed at the Mataura Paper Mill | have each agreed to give a day's pay. CREYMOL'TH. March 10. All the friendly societies meet to-night, to arrange for a grand fete at Easter, on behalf of the Kaitangata fund. NEW PLYMOUTH. March 10. i The survey of the two proposed routes ; for the railway lines through the Waimate I Plains—one from Nonnanby and the I other from eight miles further up on the j mountain near the Waiigawhora—will I shortly be commenced. The one from | Normanby presents an easy grade. At a meeting of the Harbor Board the legal opinion of 3lr. Halse was read as to the constitution of the present loan, and tw to whether, owing to one of the members not having been nominated by the Government, the Board was legal. Mr. Hatse states that he considers the Board was not a legal Board, for to be legally constituted it must have the full number of members on its periodical constitution as prescribed by the Act. A native meeting takes place at Parihaka on the 10th inst. It is said to be the last To Wheti will hold, as Europeans are now on such friendly terms that these meetings are no longer necoasary.