TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 981, 11 June 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. June 10. The Post says the Premier is about to visit Sir William Fitzgerald to offer him the Speakership of the Council, and that if '.hi-- is accepted Mr. O'JLlorkc will he the Government nominee for ihe Speakership of the House, .mil Mr. Hamlin for the Chairmanship of Committees. It is stated that the insurance companies have come to the determination to rebuild all the properties destroyed by fire in cases where the insurance money is sufficient, or nearly so, for that purpose. A cordial manufacturer's delivery cart collided with the tram-cars to-day. There was a great smash amongst the bottles, but no one was hurt. The hearing of the perjury ca.-.e against Mr. Kinross was proceeded with to-day, and a couple more Maori witnesses examined. The case was then further adjourned for eight days. Mr. Siev wrightconducted the prosecution in the absence of Mr. Rees. Nothing important was elicited to-day. The steamer Stella brought down from Taranaki another batch of 22 recruits for the Armed Constabulary force. They are now being drilled at the barracks, and as soon as they are efficient, will be forwarded either to Taranaki or Hawera.

DUNEDIN. June 10. It is stated that the subject of the construction of a double line of railway from Port Chalmers to Mosgiel is likely to be brought forward at the next sitting of Parliament. The work on the line at present is so heavy that difficulty is experienced in overtaking it. CHRISTCHURCH. June 10. Mr. Horatio Bunting, a rose grower of this city, has obtained a patent for a straw binder, and a working model is to be exhibited in about a fortnight. The machine makes a twisted band, places it round the sheaf, twists the ends well together, and tucks them well in. The inventor is sanguine of success, and an inspection of the various parts of the machine leads to the conjecture that the work will be satisfactorily accomplished. A fellow named Kitching was brought before the Police Court to. day ; on a charge of smashing a pane of glass ill view of a constable. This he had done, he said, because he was starving with cold and hunger, but it turfied put that he had left the Charitable Home because he did not consider enough tobacco was given him. Thence he found his way to the Hospital, out of which he quickly cams, and turned up at the Charitable Aid Office. Pood was given him, which he declined to cook for himself; and he tried to get a constable to arrest him. This was refused. He then smashed the window. The Magistrate sentenced him to pay 10s fine and the damage, or 14 days' hard labor:, at which the poor unfortunate was a good deal astonished. A lunatic, who had boen wandering about Little Bush, dropped into a settler's house on Saturday/ and seeing no one but a woman and child, seized the latter, drew a knife, and was about to dispatch him. The cries of the mother brought in some surveyors, who very luckily were at hand, and the madman's arm was arrested just in time. He was sane enough to beg to be let off, and offered his captors money, of which he had a large sum on him. The man was, however, lodged securely in Akaroa gaol. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 10. There is nothing new to report respecting the natives, except that they are not so bounceable as they were before the arrival of the Armed Constabularly. The,

settlers being armed has somewhat frightened them, and taken a lot of superstition out of their heads. ! GREYMOUTH. Juno 10. Mr. W. H. Harrison, ex M.H.R. for Grey Valley, and • editor of the Grey River Argus, died at Melbourne on the_ 30th ult. of malignant cancer of the jaw. Mr. Charles Woolcock, M.H.R., addressed his constituents last night. He declared himself an Oppositionist, and blamed the present Ministry for not carrying out their promises. His views were coldly received, but he received the usual vote of confidence. AUCKLAND. June 11. The Waikato Steam Navigation Company arc boring for coal near Mercer. At a meeting of the Governor's Reception Committee, it was determined to receive him at Onehunga, and escort him to Auckland with the Cavalry. While visiting the Three Kings' Whaling Institution, Rewi convened, freely respecting the Whitely murder. He absolved Te Wetere from the blame of giving the fatal shot, though Te Wetere told Whitely to go back. Rewi states that there was a white man present with the party who committed the White Cliffs massacre and killed Whitely. Rewi visited Onehunga and recognised the old settlers, also the scene of Winiata's murder of Packer. He said Winiata had killed a man at Napier, and robbed him of a watch, and expressed surprise, from the lie of the country, that the Europeans permitted Winiata to escape. A man named Johnston King has had his thigh crushed by a falling log at Taurua. There is little hope of his recovery.