TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 960, 17 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

• WELLINGTON.

May 16. The Court of Appeal was occupied all day 'with the case of Proudfoot v. the Dunedin Harbor Board, which is still unfinished. A letter has been received by the Sydney Exhibition Commissioners, from Mr. Morris, the Executive Secretary at Sydney, requesting them to assist in getting up a good ethnological display at the Exhibition. Similar circulars have been sent to the Commissioners in New Caledonia and Fiji. The Executive Secretary desires the collection and exhibition to be on as comprehensive a scale as possible of models of dwellings, full-sized models of arms, implements, dress, orna ments, specimens of art, samples of articles of diet, and illustrations of the ethnology of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Australian and the Pacific Islands. The circular states further that a sum of LIOO has been placed at the disposal of Commodore Wilson for the purpose of purchasing ethnological specimens in the course of his voyages. The steamer Grafton, which has been laid up in port to have new boilers and machinery put in her, is now almost ready for sea. Captain Fraser, late of the p.s. Luna, has been appointed to command her. May 16. ! At the Police Court to-day Henry Anderson, editor of the Evening Chronicle, was committed for trial for the assault on R. C. Easby. The cvoss action Anderson v. Easby, was further adjourned. The Magistrated that he would probably commit in it also, so as to leave it to a jury to decide on the whole matter. I Mr. Gr. Hunter and Mr. W. Hutcheson have been nominated for the Mayoralty.

AUCKLAND.

May 16. Mr. Edward Perkins' sale of racing

stock, at the Haymarket, was well attended, and there was a fair competition for the racing stock recently imported from Sydney. The following prices were realised :—Brown filly Frailty, by Goldsborough—Flora M'lvor, 145 guineas, Mr. Percival; bay colt by Tim Whiffler— Paroquette, 130 guineas, Mr. Julian Smith; chestnut colt Kenilworth, by Kelpie—Empress, passed in at 95 guineas ; bay colt by Maribyrnong—Lady Audley, 85 guineas, Mr. J. Leonard; chestnut colt Yortex, by E-eprieve—Ghiva, 65 guineas, Mr. M'Gee; chestnut colt by Old England—Meditation, 40 guineas, Mr; Percival; black filly Rebecca, by Goldsborough—Sea Breeze, GOguineas, Mr. "White ; bay mare Pungawerewere, passed in at 120 guineas ; bay mare Xantippc, passed in at 45 guineas ; chestnut mare Discord, with foal at foot, and in foal again to Kingfisher, passed in at 45 guineas ; bay trotting mare, Judy, passed in at 30 guineas ; foal to Judy, by Akeke, 30 guineas, Mr. M'Gee ; roan mare (hack) by Wonder, 17 guineas, Mr. St. Clair; two-year old gelding, by Young Performer from Nellie, 5 guineas, Mr. Martin : yearling filly, by Young Performer from Nellie, 5 guineas, Mr. Niccol; trotting mare Nellie, L 9, Mr. Walker. The native encampment at Kopua was broken up to-day. Tawhaio started for Hikurangi by this morning's train. Mr. Sheehan leaves Alexandra to meet Rewi at Kihikihi. It is not known positively whether the meeting will be a public one or not. Rewi and Te Ngakau are expected to be at the Native Lands Court at Cambridge next week. Rewi now fully controls the feeling of the Ngatimanipoto tribe, and the best results are anticipated. May 17. The Herald's Alexandra correspondent says :—"I hear that some natives, homeward bound from the Kopua meeting, stole some valuable horses from Mr. Duffus' paddock. Rewi, with 40 followers, is at his settlement at Punui, near Kihikihi, awaiting the arrival of Mr. Sheehan to discuss certain matters relative to the Kopua meeting."

DUNEDIN.

May 16. Mr. Hanson, of Waihola, has invented a machine for removing frost or ice from iron rails 011 tramways or railways. He is anxious to send a model of the invention to the Sydney Exhibition, but as he has not the necessary means it is to be hoped some enterprising capitalist will be found to assist him. Mr. Armstrong, of the Railway Locomotive Department, gives a very favorable account of it.

CHRISTCHURCH.

May 16. The deliveries are now coming in very slowly, and, with the exception of small parcels yet to be received from a few districts, the present season may be said to be all but closed. Last night there were about 3000 bags altogether at the various stations, the largest lots being at Kaiapoi and Waiho. The man drowned in the river on Wednesday has been recognised as a farmer named John Goodwin, living at Hazelwood Road, Papanui.

TIMARU.

May 16. The inquest on "William Henry Ostler, of Ben Ohau Station, Mackenzie country, whose remains were brought to town today, resulted in a verdict of death from natural causes, medical evidence showing the cause of death to be rupture of a blood-vessel near the heart. The time for receiving nominations for the South Canterbury Coursing Club's All Aged Stakes has been postponed from this evening to Monday next. May 17. The snorts of the Tradesmen's Athletic Club, on the 26th inst., promise to be a great success. The publicans have given trophies to be competed for to the value of Ll7. The lawyers' trade in bankruptcies has been up to its usual standard this week, six bankrupts having been filed at the District Court. It is believed, however, that, after 4th of next month, business affairs will assume a healthier tone. The fever ward of the Waimate Hospital will be ready for occupation on Tuesday next. Edward Hart, who was found on the beach on Wednesday last, in a weak condition from loss of blood, caused by a wound which penetrated to the pelvis bone, still lies in a critical condition. Should inflammation not intervene, however, no danger is apprehended.