TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 939, 21 April 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(I'KK I'KESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEBIX. April 19. The B (Dunedin) Battery of the In.Z. Regiment of Volunteer Artillery purpose •riving a ball in the Garrison Hall to his Excellency the Governor during his stay in Duneuin. Mr. J. A. M'Kenzie, Secretary to the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company, has received a telegram from the Mine Manager to this effect—Lodged 7350z5. last night, the result of four weeks' crushing from 407 tons of stone.'' The Cromwell Company are evidently oil a very rich reef, as successive crushings are giving increasing yields. The latest averages are nearly 2ozs. to the ton. WELLINGTON. April 19. A sailor lenown as Bob fell from the yard of the schooner Herald in Cook Straits and was drowned. A heavy sea prevented the success of the eflbrts to save him. Parliament is further prorogued to the 10th of June. Mr. Sheehan, when interviewing the natives on his visit to the coast last week, devoted his attention to examining the alleged promises. He states lie found that every promise made either by Sir D. M'Lean or other Native Ministers has been fulfilled to the letter. As to the promises which Te Whifci alleged to have been made to himself, the closest investigation failed to show that he had the slightest ground for his claims. He was "iven plainly to understand that two telegrams have been received by the Government relative to the meeting now being held at Parihaka, and the Native Commissioner of the district telegraphs that Te Whiti- has explicitly and publicly declared that on no account will he allow anj' disturbance or breach of the peace now existing between the two races. Mr. Mackay reports that he is engaged with Te Whiti in discussing the whole question, and with every hope of a speedy solution of the difficulty, as the Maori prophet has entirely dropped his mystical and prophetical style, and talks matters in a business-like manner.

A son of Mr. R. J. Duncan, aged about 15, went shooting rabbits with some boys yesterday. His gun accidentally went off, the charge lodging in his arm-pit and shattering the arm. The other boys had to carry him home three miles, and being unable to staunch the blood, he was barelyalive when medical aid was obtained. He died soon afterwards. James Marshall, who was picked up on the footpath the other morning, having fallen from the' up-stairs window of the Branch Hotel, while drunk and asleep, died in the Hospital yesterday from internal injuries. He leaves a wife and family in Glasgow. April 21. ,

Mr. Forwood, late Chief Justice of Fiji, has accepted the appointment of second R.M. for Wellington, on the condition of its not debarring him from carrying through some Supre'me Court cases in which he is engaged. John Lancaster was arrested yesterday on a Christchurch warrant for wife desertion. Jospph Bull, formerly proprietor of the New Zealand Advertiser, died on Saturday.

AUCKLAND. April 21. The Rev, A, M'Callum has introduced about 2000 tree 3 from California and Japan, for acclimatisation purposes, A man named Ladd, while working at Brownlee's sawmills, Hokianga, got struck

by the circular saw on the head, and his skull is horribly gashed.

The schooner Ovalau has been launched. She is 116 tons register, and is intended by her owner (A. B. Donald) for the Island trade. She carries 1500 yards canvass, which is the largest spread of any. similar vessel hailing from Auckland. INTERCARGILL. April 20. Great preparations have been- made at Campbelltown for the reception of the Governor to-morrow. He is expected in the Hinemoa early in the morning, and will almost immediately proceed to Kingston by special train. On his return, an address will be presented to him by the Invercargiil Corporation.