TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1065, 18 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(X'EU riIESS ASSOCIATION). I WELLINGTON. September 17. One of the Maori prisoners for Taranaki, a nephew of Wiremu Kingi, died to-day of lung disease. A young woman named Mary Smith attempted suicide this afternoon by jumping out of a boat. She engaged a waterman to tako her out for a pull, and when about hall' way down the harbor she said " good bve," and jumped overboard. The boatman soon rescued her, and brought her ashore. At a meeting of the Working Men's Rights League, it was resolved that a deputation be appointed to wait on the Government, and request them to set aside suitable blocks of land for settlement, and to urge upon the Government the necessity for selling them land on reasonable terms, as this is the best way of promoting the settlement of the country. September 18. Mary Smith, who attempted suicide yesterday, has been committed to the Lunatic Asylum. Another woman named Annie Corbett was found in the water at J. o'clock this morning in a;i exhausted staie. She was taken to the Hospital. George lirightiug has been committed for trial for breaking into a dwelling-house at the Upper Hutt and stealing Lls. DUNEDIN. September 17. Tiie inquest on the Octagon fire was resumed to-day. The prisoner Waters, who was defended by Mr. Dcnniston, was in attendance. Evidence was given as to the action of the Fire Brigade at the tire, and Waters' attempts to insure his property. The quarterly meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association was held last night. The Committee reporter that communications have oee:. received from the Nelson and Cauterbui;, Associations, indicating a desire for uniformity in license fees throughout the Colony. The latter Associu' ion a.i- > .suggests a conference of the trade. l-JepJies have been sentstatingthaiwhiL favorable to a uniform license fee this Association could only Hupnort it provided all bottle licenses were removed : and iu reference to the conference, exoressinga willingness to send a delegate, but asking certain questions as to when and where it was to be held, which have nor yet. been answered. One hundred copies of the Revenue Officers' Bill, with circular attached, have been printed, and the Committee proposes to send one to each Association in the Coionv, and one to each member of the Mouse of Representatives, Waters, who has been arrested for arson, was once employed in the publishing department of the Daily Times office, niider Mr. Robert Wilson, one of the ten vict ims of the lire. The unemployed are to get work on the C'tau" cen'rai line of railway at once. AUCKLAND. September 17. A man named Moore was drowned at Uelensville, near Clarke's Hotel. He had been drinking. Mr. Edgecombe, a surveyor engaged surveying near Y\ aikanae, Lake Rangariri, was told by natives not to continue, as the Maori King's orders are that no roads and no more surveys are to be made on land not within the " Aukati'' line. The natives said that " Aukati" lines are now abolished, and that Tawhaio now claims tin; whole island. _ • The whaling barque Triton put into Mongonui leaking, alter a three months' cruise. She had 150 barrels of sperm oil. September IS. William Charleston, for stealing L 23 from Arthur Irvine, a seaman of the schooner Authoress, has been committed for trial at the Resident Magistrate's Court. Von Petrie, a seaman of the Minister of Marine, sued the captain of that vessel for wanes. It appears that the captain deducted from this sailor's wages 10s a day for ten days while he was in the hospital, so that the amount of wages lie had to take for the whole voyage was 4s 9d. The Magistrate ruled that he had no jurisdiction. The City Council has decided to put through a .Bill in Assembly for the consolidation of the city loans if all floated amount to L 195,000. NEW. PLYMOUTH. September 17. Mr. Courtney sold land at Fitzroy, about two miles from town, when some of it went at the rate of L 175 per acre. An order has been received by Mr. E. M. Smith to cast 12 feet rails from iron sand, which, with the pair of bogie wheels that liavo been cast, will be sent by a steamer to-morrow. NELSON. September 17. A man named Patrick Kirwin, who was recently committed for trial for cattle stealing at Marlborough, but liberated on bail, has committed an assault on the keeper of an accommodation house at the foot of the Maungatapu, namel Dyer. From information, the police w ire sent up to Dyer's place, where they found Kirwan much knocked about himself, armed with an old gun covered with blood. It appears Kirwan went to Dyer's, and after asking for refreshment savagely assaulted the latter, and after disabling him, burnt about LSO worth of goods. Kirwan was brought into town, and remanded, but it now transpires that he is of unsound mind. FOXTON. September 18. The steamer Stormbird, while towing the schooner Mary Ogilvie over the bar, struck on the bar, She is not expected to be damaged, and will probably get off next tide. The Jane Douglas goes to her assistance with warps.

ASHBURTON. September 17. Mr. Donald M'Lean, of Lagnior Estate, intends proceeding against the Government to recover compensation for land given (conditionally) for the Mount Somers railway line. The conditions under which the land was promised to the County Council were that a station should be erected at Lngmor, but this the authorities have since refused to.