TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1068, 22 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER TRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON". September 20. Tlie Hotel Employes' Association have decided that no member shall accept an appointment where Chinese are engaged.

A man named David Mair has been missing since June last. The police have made diligent enquiry, but no trace of him can be found.

The Wellington Racing Club hold a meeting on Monday, to discuss the advisability of holding a one day's race meeting during the ensuing session. The Masonic Lodges in Wellington intend founding a scholarship which shall be given for competition amongst the sons of Masons,

Two men named Henry and Albert Corbett were seriously injured at the Hutt yesterday, by the fninie of a house in course of erection falling on them. It appears thatthe sale of the N.Z.S.S. Co's plant on Tuesday last was irregular, and the property will be again offered for sale on Thursday next. A ship has been signalled at the heads all day. She is supposed to be the Matilda, which, loaded at Kapiti with the cargo of the stranded ship Hyderabad ; but, as the St. Leonard's, from London, is due, it may be, her. September 22. The ship Matilda is at the Heads. She is in a dangerous position, owing to the southerly gale blowing. The general opinion is that she will go ashore unless the captain slips the anchors. It is believed that the insurance on the ship and cargo is L 27,000. AUCKLAND. September 20. A Kopua chief named Tupotohia leaves for Wellington to carry Rewi's words.to Parliament. Rewi would have gone himself but for his precarious health.A Grammar School boy named Holland fell down a flight of steps, breaking his leg. He ws not discovered: .lying there for nearly two hours. v . -. Colonel Fraser received a vote of confidence at Coromandel from the electors. September 22. Sailed: Hinemoa,. with the Auckland members of the Assembly and Legislative Council; also, Press representatives, and Tupotihi, Rewi's Ambassador to Parliament. Captain Bathifrst. of the schooner Kemchilda, is lying at Wangaroa in a precarious state, through falling down the hold and a piece of timber striking him. H.M.S. Cormorant has brought Fiji news to tlie. 12th inst. Captain Kilgour, of the schooner Mystery, was tried in the High Commissioners' Court for the Western Pacific, at. Levuka, before the Chief Justice, for malicious destruction of property by burning native houses on the island of Aoha. The captain's boa,t had been fired on, and the act was done in retaliating. He was fined LIOO, and compelled to find a recognisance for L 250 to be of good behaviour in the Pacific for three years. Dr. Wallis and Mr. Hurst, M.H.R.'s, were served with a subpoena on board the Hinemoa as witnesses in the pending action between Joseph Newman and P. Machitti relative to the illegal practices at the City West election. CHEISTCEURCH. September 20. The intending petitioner against the Kaiapoi election obtained this morning a legal opinion to the effect that the election, not having been conducted upon the certified roll, is null and void. The names of the Hon. Mr. Sheehan, Messrs. James Richardson, Feldwick, and J. S. White (of Ohoka) are already mentioned as probable candidates.

At a meeting of the unemployed this morning, in Cathedral square, a suggestion by one of the speakers that communications should be sent to the leading English, Irish, and Scotch newspapers warning working men of the risk incurred by emigrating to. New Zealand during the present crisis was received with warm approbation.

GBAHAMSTO WN. September 22.

Arms are being served to the Waitoa settlers, and in other outlying districts. In the flipper Thames, steamers are warned not to attempt going up the Waitoa. There are grounds for believing that the Ngatihalco are building a pah. Election matters are exciting interest. Grey candidates are waiting the selection of the party.

NELSON. September 21,

The Eesident Magistrate at Collingwooa sent a special messenger to Motueka, from whence was telegraphed word that a vessel (the Messenger) was ashore at the Spit, four miles west of the lighthouse. His informant saw two boats leave the vessel at ten oil Saturday morning, and proceed round the Spit in the direction of Nelson. The lighthouse-keeper and he boarded the vessel and found no one on board. The two boats have not so far been heard of further, but as there is no telegraph beyond: Motueka-, they have probably gone in somewhere. The vessel is supposed to be the Messenger, which left Lyttelton for Newcastle on the 11th. A heavy storm accompanied with rain was experienced in the neighborhood of Nelson to-day. The lower part of the town is inundated. There have been many landslips on the hill side, but no serious damage has been sustained. September 22. There is no further news re the Messenger. The crew have not yet turned up. Th a steamer Lady Barkley and the Naval Brigade are searching for them. GPJDYMOUTH. September2o. A serious fire occurred between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning. It broke out in an empty house in Albert-street. It extended to the two adjoining houses, one of which was also unoccupied, and the other was occupied by Mr. Reyling, tailor. The cause is unknown. The two unoccupied houses belonged to Mr. M'Davitt, and were insured in the Victoria Company for L2OO, and Mr. Reyling for LSO in the Union Company. HOKITIIiI. September 10. The steamer Lyttelton having parted her cable in the roadstead, and whilst trying to enter in, got on the South Beach, where she now lies.

There has been a heavy!] fresh in the river all da v.