TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1023, 31 July 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

o WELLINGTON. July SO. Tiic Government have received a cablegram, dated London, July 2Gth, notifying the departure of the following vessels with immigrants :—Zcal.india, for Wellington, with 34G ; Bangitikei, for Lyttelton, with 335 ; and the Invercargill, for Port Chalmers, with 205. July 31. The district to which Mr. Ebenezer Baker lias been appointed as Resident Magistrate is the Waii ua in Hauke's Bay. He will have jurisdiction up to LSO. DUNEDIX. July 30. It is understood that the following changes in the Government Insurance j Department have taken place during the laat few days : —Mr. M'Donogh is to be i transferred to Auckland; Mr. Clapcott is

to succeed Mr. M'Murdo ; Mr. Thomas Birch is appointed chief agent for Otugo, aud entered on his duties yesterday. CHMSTCHURCE. July 30. There is an outcry at the determination of the City Council to enforce the immediate payment of rates by means of summoning. James Payne, a quarryman, was killed at Lyttelton -this' afternoon, through a a stone falling him. AUCKLAND. . July 31. The grand three-mile walking match has fallen "through. O'Connor aud Hendry entered, and scared the other competitors. Goodfellow, the athlete, has returned to Auckland from San Francisco, aud proceeds to Adelaide. An American gentleman is a passenger by the Zealandia en route to Melbourne, to start a weekly periodical called Saturday . x ight.