TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 963, 21 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(run PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. May 20. The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the case Proudfoot v. the Dunedin Harbor Board. The case Henderson v. the Napier Harbor Board was partly heard. The charge of alleged perjury against Mr. Kinross, of Napier, was down for hearing at the R.M. Court to-day. Mr. Rees appeared for the prosecution, and Messrs. T. Travers and Martin Chapman for the defendant. Mr. Mansford said the case had been brought into Court without his being consulted in any way, and lie would not therefore allow it to ' take precedence of any of the ordinary business of the Court. The first day that he would have entirely disengaged would be the 10th of June. The case had stood over since 1871, and a delay of a few weeks could not be of much consequence. : Mr. Rees said he had himself come and brought a large number of witnesses from • Napier, and it would be very expensive and inconvenient if the case were put off till 10th June. His Worship replied that he would get two J.P.s to take the ordinary business on Tuesday next, and could take the Kinross case 011 that day, commencing at 9 a.m. This was agreed to. 1 The boy Hall, reported missing yesterday, has turned up all right. The following is the official estimate of the value of property in the Colony taxable under the Land Tax Act, 1878 : 1 Auckland, L 3,235,000; Hawkes Bay, ' L 3,.899,079 ; Wellington, L 7,983,301; 1 Nelson, L 3,000,000 ; Otago, L 16,800,000 ; Canterbury, L 15,790,000. Total , L 50.707,440. This at id in the £ will yield L 105,025 per year. The Wellington district includes the Wellington and Taranaki Provincial Districts. Nelson includes Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland Provincial Districts. Hawkes Bay 1 includes Hawkes Bay Provincial District and Cook County. May 21. It is stated that Messrs. J. Grey and W. A. Perkinson, Committee reporters, have been appointed Hansard reporters, rice Messrs. Crombie and Downie resigned. The Mayoralty campaign was opened last night, when Mr. Hunter addressed a large meeting, and was well received. During the performance of Mr. Darrell's drama " Back from the Grave " last night, the ilooring of a set scene representing the upper storey of a house, and on which Miss Navaro was lying, gave way, and she fell to the stage beneath, a distance of about 10 feet, but beyond a few bruises and a severe shaking she was not hurt, and speedily continued her part amidst great applause from the audience. AUCKLAND. r May 20. The rain abated a great portion of today, but it is now clouding again, and there is likely to be a downpour during the night. Yesterday floods caused a good deal of damage on the Waikato railway line. Besides carrying away several bridges along the great south road, a portion of the tunnel on the railway line near Mercer has fallen in. The train had just passed through the tunnel when a great mass of the roof fell in with a crash. Several horses and cattle have been carried away, and a man in the Ararimu district is reported to be drowned, but the report is as yet unconfirmed. The Harbor Board decided to-day to raise another loan of L 50,000. May 21. The Union Sash and Door Company got '■ 1000 logs to the Taiarua mill during the 1 flood. Rewi has inspected the Te Awamutu 1 cavalry troops. He addressed them afterwards in complimentary words, and wound 3 up by stating that their vocation was gone, ' as henceforth- the peace of the island ; would be kept inviolate. < A complimentary dinner has been given 1 to Sergt.-Major Hyde, drill instructor of i the Cavalry and Artillery, on the occasion < of his departure for Wellington. ] The Hon. J. Sheehan has arrived at 1 Cambridge. The greatest enthusiasm was c manifested by all the tribes assembled in c

the Lands Court as the cortege halted at Hewitt's Criterion Hotel. Mr. Sheehan, Rewi, and Majors Kemp and Gray occupied the first buggy, and Hauhauru, Te Neuheu, and Te Whetere the other. The party was composed of Ngatimaniapotos, Wanganui, Taupo, and a large number of Ngatiraukawa chiefs.-of various hapus. The Lands Court was opened, but the only business transacted was correction and admission of successors of those who have died. The Court then adjourned, and will re.-open after the settlement of the special business Mr Sheehan has gone to Cambridge upon. TIMARU. May 20. At meetings between the Harbor Board and the Railway Commissioner, to-day, the latter expressed his willingness to give all the land between the railway line and the sea, north of the Government landing service, in exchange for three chains deep of land which shall be reclaimed to the south of the breakwater by the shingle backing up. INVERCARGILL. May 20. Grain is coming in freely from the country districts, and is of excellent quality. DUNEDIN. May 20. At the afternoon meeting of the City Council, Cr. Fish expressed the opinion that it was time the sewage question was orappled with, and stated that he intended to put a resolution on next week's order paper with regard to this subject. The Council would have to go to Parliament and to borrow money in order to deal with the matter. CHRISTCHURCH. May 20. On Monday morning a man named August Tiegs came by his death in a very untimely manner. He was a laborer residing at Oxford, but working on the Sheffield branch railway. It appears that he, and others who had been discharged from the service, had repaired to Cassidy's Hotel, Kowai Pass, to procure refreshments, and before going home early on Saturday morning, a man named Hugh Henry saw Tiegs lying on the verandah outside the house, but as the place was not open he did not move or interfere with him. Shortly after this the man was found by others totally insensible, and removed in a dray to Oxford. A doctor was called in, but Tiegs was then dead, though shortly before this he had uttered some unintelligible words. Of course the doctor refused to certify to the manner of his death, and the matter is left in the hands of the police. An inquest was held to-day, at which a verdict of " Died from apoplexy" was returned, with a rider to the effect that the proprietor of the hotel did not look properly after his house, or he would have found the man lying down. This will be reported to the Licensing Bench.