TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1091, 17 October 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; WELLINGTON. ' October IG. 1 A deputation from the Working Men's • Club waited upon the Minister of Lands to-day for the purpose of urging on the project of the Small Farm Association. Several members of the deputation urged : that he would set aside a block at Hawera ' for settlement, and said it would settle i the native difficulty. Mr. Rolleston rej plied that the Government were passing I a Bill which dealt with special settlements ! and small farms. He said he was anxious '[to assist the Association, but under pre- | sont circumstances could not definitely pledge the Government. In reply to n deputation, the Minister of Mines stated that ho would not b.e prepared to proclaim the Wairarapa a goldfield district until it was clearly proved i that payable gold existed. He would, however, proclaim it a mining district, | GRAHAMSTOWN. ! October IG. ; At the Harbor Board meeting, Mr. Ehrenfried suggested that they should write to the Government that the Board was not in a position to pa} - fancy prices for fancy works, such as Kir John Coodo's report and plan on the harbor. On the motion of Mr. Bragnall, it was resolved tn write tlie Government asking for a copy of the instructions given to Sir John Coode before making the tour of the Colony. AUCKLAND. October IG. The Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution, with one dissentient, in favor of protection to local industries; also, a request to the Government for a Royal Commission re present tariff, as affecting local industries and revenue.

A man named Honey, at Hamilton, Waikato. in a fit of insanity, refused all food. He is since missing, and it is believed that he has committed suicide. A part}' of Maoris have been put on to clear the line of the Thames railway from Kaueranira to Karikariki. Mr. Hislop, Inspector of Schools, completed his inspection 3-esterday with Mr. G. C. Stephens, of the Oraki Native Schools. Representatives of the Hapu Ngatirakav.a triV.i>. met at To Papa. 30 miles beyond Cambridge, to discuss the proposal made by the Government to have the main trunk road continued through the Ngatirakawa lands to the Hot Lakes. At a meeting <>f the Auckland Waste Lauds Board, a resolution was passed respectfully recommending the Government that such provisions may lie inserted in the new Land Act as may be calculated to promote the immigration of a suitable class of farmers to this Colony from Great Britain and Ireland. Resolutions have been carried at the Waitemata County Council asking the Minister for Public Works to extend the Kaipara line. The north leader from which the late crushing of the Caledonian Company was taken is looking well. Gold is showing freely. It is rumored that Mr. Brodie, Chairman of the Thames County Council, is proceeding to Wellington to look after the Thames interest. October 17. The whole of the To Arolia Block has been handed over by the Government to the jurisdiction of the Waste Lands Board. Three thousand six hundred acres have been made an endowment to the Thames High School, and the mountain reserved as a public domain. The block will be brought into tho market speedily. The licensed victuallers here are strongly opposed to Mr. Saunders' Bill, as putting them in a worse position than ever. CHRISTCHURCH. October 16. Two letters were received at the Harbor Board to-day from the New Zealand and the South British Insurance Companies enclosing L 25 a piece gratuity to the tug's crew, for its services during the great gale in Juno. Thoy regretted that the Association as a, body had not 3een fit to contribute to the Board, and thought LSO too small a sum to be divided up, and added LSO from their own funds. A man named Marshall was sentenced to six weeks' hard labor to-day for terrorising over a girl in the Park, and pretending to be a constable. Having frightened away her companion, Marshall made improper overtures to her, and the girl having the wit to make an appointment with him, informed the police, who captured him at the rendezvous, DUNEDIN. October 10. The executive officers of the Friendly Societies of Duncdin, after considering the new railway by-law making it imperative on all employe's of the department to join the Railway Benefit Socipty, resolved to wait upon Mr. Confers, or to communicate with him by letter, with a view of having the grievance redressed. The subscriptions already received in aid of the sufferers by the Octagon fire, though the canvass has only been engaged in for three days, amounts to Ll4O, and a large number of cards are yet out. The Committee think that thq sum of L'jOO will be sufficient to meet the cases of absolute necessity. The Star says : —" We have no desire to be thought alarmists, but we have the best authority for stating that the tenor of the cablegram /•« the loan received from the AgentrGenerai is that ho expresses the opinion that present indications are against getting tho loan easily floated.