TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 937, 18 April 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(I'Ki: I'IiKSS ,\.-SOI'IATIUN.) WELLINGTON. April 17. Th'.- Governor v ;..- . •■■ni in at noon, and was saluted from the Emerald. A Gazette extraordinary announces his assumption of the Government, and that lie has been pleased to reappoint and administer the oaths of office to the whole of the Ministrv, with the exception of tiie Hon. li. Stout, who is absent from Wellington. A new postal regulation has been made by His Excellency the Governor to-day, by Order in Council, under the Post Office Act, 185S, to come in force on the Ist proximo. It refers to the disposal of irregularly posted, unclaimed, and refused let tera. and is intended io supersede the existing regulation, which requires all such letters to be opened and returned to the senders, through the "Letter Ollice. The new regulation is as follows : "Lettersposted within the Colony, haying the names and addresses of the writers printed on the envelopes, if not claimed within one months, to be returned unopened to the writers, Letters posted within the Colony having the names ancl addresses of the* writers printed on the envelopes, together with a request that the letters may be returned if unclaimed within a certain period, to be returned unopend to the writers in accordance with such request; provided, however,! that no unclftimed letter shall be returned in the manner aforesaid unless it shall hare been in the post office, at loast ten days." This will be a great improvement on the present system, which always has been a subject of a good deal of grumbling. The new regulation will apply to chief post offices only. A statement of the postal revenue, collected during the quarter ended 31st March, 1879. has been made up ; the total revenue for the March quarter is L 34,619 13s 4d, as compared with L25,9G119s 8d for the preceding quarter, and L28,55010s stl for the September quarter of 1878. The total of L 34,619 13s 4d comprised the following items Sale of postage stamps, L2G.2U9 7s ; money order commission, L18. ; >4 10s lid ; fees (private boxes and bags), L 2029 15s ; imperial postage receipts, L3OO ; miscellaneous, L 383 17s 6d, The total postal revenue collected during the nine months ended 31st ult., being the first three quarters of the current financial year, was L 12,132 3s sd. j . April 18.

The Stadt Haarlem arrived early this morning, and came alongside the middle T of the wharf.

The Hon. Sir. Macandrew has given an order to slr. Smith, of Taranaki, to make eight wheels for railway carriages out of Taranaki iron sand. Four of the wheels are for the Sydney Exhibition, and four are for test purposes on the New Zealand railway.

DUNEDIN. April 17. So disgracefully did some of tfie Volunteers returning from Invercargill behave themselves when in Dunedin on Tuesday night, that, the interference of .the police on more than one oceasion had to be invoked. An information has been laid against a man named Eastwood, belonging to the Timaru corps, for his disorderly conduct, and he will have to answer to the charge at the City Police Court so soon as the warrant can be executed. To-night's Star says " A practical refutation of the opinions so freely expressed regarding the unsuitability of Port Chalmers harbor for vessels of great draught of water, is th# fact that the Banares, which on good authority we are informed drew 22 feet on arrival, was brought over the bar in safety." The Public Works Department is calling for tenders for the reclamation of at least forty acres of the Upper Harbor. The following telegram from the Minister of Public Works, addressed to Messrs. Oliver, Bastings, and Driver, M.H.R.'s, has been received " You must be under some misapprehension re Addington workshops. You cannot mean that there are to be no workshops in Canterbury, or that the removal of the existing workshops from Christchurch to Addington is detrimental to Dunedin, or implies that the principal railway workshops in the Middle Island are to be at Addington. The whole of the railway station ground at Christchurch is required for other purposes, hence the removal of the shops to Addington, as provided by the Appropriation Act. I regret that this should offend the niercantile people of Dunedin." —J. Macandhew.

An accident happened at about half-past two this afternoon to a man named William Martin. It appears that he is employed at the railway station, and was engaged on the turntable turning a truck into Smythie's yard, and being unable to get away in time, or having no room, lie was squeezed between tlip truck he was helping to turn and those on the main line, causing a fracture of the skull. He was taken to the Hospital, where his injuries were immediately attended to. AUCKLAND. April 18. The anniversary soiree and ball of the Working Men's Club passed off successfullv. The quartz brought from Mongonui has beon crushed, but the result does not warrant any further operations. • Henry Charles Hill, for forgery, _ was sentenced to-day to 18 months' imprisonment, While the sentence was being pronounced a woman in court unexpectedly belabored the prisoner with her parasol, meanwhile commending the decision of the judge. At the Government land sale, 18G acres were sold in lots, and realised L3IBS. Payments in land scrip are on the decrease, settlement this time being mostly in cash.

H. Clapcotr, chief agent of the Government Insurance Department, has arrived and taken over charge of the Auckland district.

Some Canterbury settlors, purposing to locace on the Tuatou block, asked the Waste Lands Board for an extension of time, owing to the difficulties arising from dull times of disposing of their property in Canterbury. The extension was granted. A boy, name unknown, who was found in an insensible condition on the Manukau road, having been accidentally kicked by a horse on the forehead, is in a precarious condition.

David Gadsten, travelling in connection with an exhibition known as Fatinia, was charged with selling lottery tickets, and fined by the Magistrate.

INVEIICAKGILL. .April 18. "Black, of Queenstown, has been kicked to death by a horse. _ The jury returned an open verdict m the case of Lynch, who died after a struggle with Timothy Whelan, who was arrested on suspicion of murder. The Magistrate is stiffly lining persons found trespassing on the railway lines. The Town C'ouneU contemplate no expense to the ti- • unpeople in connection with the late "Yuiunreer Demonstration, and receive the new Governor quietly. Enquiries show that the heavy shower at the review ground at Makarewa was purely local, extending no distance light or left, but in the direction of the prevailing wind. It is the opinion that it was caused by ths pannon." The reports of the guns' 1 were distinctly heard 10 miles distant.