TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1191, 10 February 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER press association.) WELLINGTON. February 9. On Saturday the Government received a telegram to the effect that a dispute had arisen in reference to the Murimotu Block, between certain hapus of the Wanganui and Taupo tribes, headed by Tapia and Major Kemp respectively. The steamer Kangaroo left this afternoon for "Wakapuaka, to commence laying the new cable across.the straits. She lays five miles"-of the -.shore - end. v at v\Yaka j! puaka'}'afc%then proceeds .to lay five irioire, after! wKich she will lay ; the main - cable conn6cfcing both .ends.Dr. Lemon: and Cfiptaih. Simsjacts- as'p.ilpt;- j j - Mr. G.' S. of Colonial Insurance Company, leaves for England to-day in the Arawata, to inspect the London and Indian offices of that company. 1' The police;ate .taking"active measures:' to enforce-tbe-provisions of the Employ- : ment of Females Act. It is understood b"e" : against for allowing their- barmaids to-re-, main iri the bar after 11 p.m. ' 2 J x -Messrs.. B1 undell- 8r05.,-the -proprietors;: of the Evening Post,,forwarded to-day. to the Lord Mayor bf Dublin--an instalment of LIOO in aid of "the Irish relief fund." The . National Bank transmitted the amount free of exchange. The Union Steam Ship Company have presented the New Zealand Rifle Association with a SO guinea pup to be fired for at Nelson. Entries are now being received. It is fully expected that 200 competitors'-will be'present. Good progress is being made in preparing the range, and huts are being built for the accommodation of competitors, in addition to tents, .. . . Dr, Lemon'ha ; s received tlie'following telegrom : " The Lord Mayor of Dublin acknowledges with manjt thanks the subscription of LGOO received from Christchurch." February 10. A meeting was held yesterday for the i purpose of forming a public library. It was unq.nijnousLy-decided that a Corpora-, tion Company should be formed in accordance with the terms of the Public Libraries Acts of 1575 and 1877. The Government have given L6O to provide, shelving for the books. ...... _ .

The poll to elect two members as representatives of the city on the new Harbor Board was taken yesterday with the' fol-. lowing result3Vlr.;P.'.Coffey, 940 ; W. Y. Jackson, 977 ; J. Bi Harcourt, 781; Mr. E. W. Mi 115,.553; Mr. J. R. George, 351; Mr. J. W. Plummer,Sfs6 ; Mr. G. H. Bayliss,rlss. Messrs.- Coffey and Jacks.on are therefore returned.,. The shipping interest returned Captain Rose, of the New Zealand Shipping Company ; die Chamber of Commerce,- Mr. J". E. Nathan, merchant; the Hutt County Council, Mr. W. Lancaster: One return has yet to come from the Wairarapa. The settling took place for the Wellington- races last night-, when the following amounts were handed over Hon. W. Robinson, L 351 10s; R. H. Vallance, L 194 16s ; C, Redwood and F. Gentry. LB7 10s ; P. J. Murtagh, L7l 5a ; R. M'lvor, L7l 5s ; P. Waiters, L 52 5s ; J. Desmond,L47 10s ; T. Ray,L2S 10s A. J. Ivejth, L2B 10s ; A. Young, L 23 15s. Total, L 956 155.: At an inquest on the body of Cochrane, drowned on Monday, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned.

At the R.M. Court this morning, Edwaid Blyth, bookmaker, was charged with indecent coiiduct in the Bota'nical I Gardens, and assaulting the keeper. The | former charge was dismissed, and on the latter he was fined 20s. • ... . . .. R. M'lvor, the owner of racehorses, was fined L2 for assaulting Weston,. a bookmaker. ; DUNEDIN. .: February 9. A case of interest to new arrivals and others in search of employment was heard at this morning's sitting of .the Residen Magistrate's Court. It . was William Laughliu v. Armstrong and Pattisbn, and damages were laid for. false representations. Defendants are labor agents. Plaintiff's evidence was that in January ho applied to them for a situation. Defendants gave him a sealed- letter addressed to one Mellis, a storekeeper near Gore:Witness asked to see the letter, but they said it was private, but that it was sending him to a billet at 30s a week in a store. Witness went ,to Gore, but then found that Mellis was not there, his store being, shut up, and the business sold off. The people at Gore told him that Mellis did not require a man at all, the place wa? shut up, and that seven, or eight people had already been sent down from Dunedin by defendants on a similar errand. Witness, on arriving at Gore, had to walltwenty' miles out to' Mellis' place and back again. He had paid 3.35.f0r railway fare., had been put to expense for living, andhad lost a fortnight's time, during which he might have got a billet elsewhere. Defendants denied plaintiff's story, stating that they sent plaintiff to Mellis because the" latter had shortly before instructed them to send eighteen men to his place tc work on a station. The Magistrate, however, considered the plaintiffs case proved, and that defendants did make false representations./ He assessed the damages at L 5. The Dunedin Artillery made the fincscoro of G4S against the Christchurch Battery. The battery will be represented at Nalson by Lieut. Park, Sergt. Thomson, Gunner Lees, and Sergt. Allan. Efforts are being made to secure a fifth representative, failing which, Captain Muir, who, is attached to the Staff, will request permission to Cretin the Company's match. • The Corporation have received 40 applications for tho appointment of a youth in the Gas Depaivment at a salary of LSO a year. The Gas Committee's report censures the inspector for allowing the Corporation employe's to carry out private work, Sergeant Webster, of the City Guards, has entered for the New Zealand Rifle Association's meeting at Nelson. PORT. CHALMERS. February 10. Arrived —Rotorua, from the Bluff; Flonnda, from Greymouth ; Cora, from Havelock. : • Louis F. Drew., master of the schooner Awarua, was charged with . unlawfully taking 319 seals during the close season. After a patient hearing of four hours the R.M; committed him for trial, consenting to take bail himself in L2OO, and two sureties of LIOO each. HAMILTON. ; : - - February 10. :! -The Waikato Times announces that his Excellency the Governor ha 9 purchased, at a satisfactory figure (which it is not at liberty to quote), Messrs. Fergusson and Gordon's thoroughbred colt to'\match,dam Lyra by : Thunderbolt (English): The Tiinos' Alexandra correspondent says that Rewi and Tawhiao met on Sunday at Kopua. CHRISTCHURCH. !•.; ■' w? : t February' 9. ; " The Customs-. revenne collected at Lyt.tekon during the month, of January was L 18,189. .. Nineteen cases of infectious diseaso have Ween reported during tho past fortnight. Seventeen wefo; tjjphoid,:pne and one of scarlatina. There was a case at the-CbUtf; to-day in which a man . c.hifrgpd with drunken-i fiOHS and resisting the police.' He pleaded that ho did not resist, but that two constables badly ill-used him, tearing his clothes oil', and punching him iu tho ribß.

A bystander wlio interfered was arrested for obstructing the police. Several witnesses swore that the constables did unnecessarily maltreat the man, but he was fined 10s for drunkenness. The bystander brought witnesses to prove that he did not obstruct the police, except by word, and that he had a fair reason to do so. The case against him was dismissed, and the two constables were then charged with assaulting the original culprit-^ttk.the case was adjourned in order to to get witnesses. The against them was of a gr®||ft'atpise. f|§l! | rtfeiepfleceiyeil Mfihe| fCit^^bTinci3K^*nr"ing^ieOT^f thpbg tsxm' LIOB llli 1 i gj§! | ftt#ained a ■.aabpp§ hi cl itbj rainMor feve ors® 'wfeeSlT !%("' wsisi'er couT4.Jnbt b0Bf: beeii better' for harvesting liad' -itf-been picked. " This afternoon one of the lately imported American "Consolidation " engines 'drew'iLoa :? tbns,"frosirr Lyttelt'oi*';Snii to Christchurch with the greatest ease. tpnsyan,diaibrabe i van, were drawn through thi 'tuflrtdf/ -The coal used was from the distance was dcu)e..at,,tlie jrate of .ten miles per tfour. I CV't Crcs~»s'{js?ua j ~ A ; number of large trout have -been ; taken out of the Avon revently. This evening one weighing over 141ba was on exhibition. Many approaching this weight and several over it have been caught. The river is full of fish.

GISBORNE. February 9. A petition signed by nearly all the runholders in the district has been forwarded to the Government praying that Mr. Campbell may be retained in the district as Slieep Inspector. An unusual case is occupying the attention of the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day. For the past three weeks the female population of Gisborne have been, thrown into a state of terror every night by a nocturnal visitor, who paid his callsabout midnight to the residences occupied by single women, widows, or women whose husbands were away from home. The description of the midnight marauder, as given by the women, differ in many respects, except one, which was that he wore a white helmet hat. On Saturday a man named Maheno, a mulatto, said to have been engaged on trial on the Hawke's Bay Herald, was arrested. The Court is crowded to-day hearing the evidence of a number of female witnesses.

NEW PLYMOUTH. February 9. A three-roomed house belonging to James Leeke, which was used to store grass seed, situated about five miles this side of Inglewood, was burned to the ground on Saturday. A stack of wheat was also burned. The grass seed and stack of wheat were insured in the Transatlantic Company for L 250. Patrick Foley, belonging to the constabulary station at the White Clifis, whilst untethering a young horse by some means got the rope round his neck and was dragged 500 yards. When picked up he was insensible, and has been unconscious ever since. He is not expected to live.

HAWERA. . ; February 9. Sii 1 Dillon Bell, one of the members of the Royal Commission, is in Hawera, staying at Lloyd's Hotel. The old native office is being prepared for the sittings of the Commission. A native named Kurakaura, who was on Finnerty's survey party, was drowned in the Patea River yesterday. He was swimming, in company with a European named Thomas Whatie, down the river, in.order to reach their camp, which was at-thie foot of some gorge, and had arrived in sight of the camp when he disappeared from; his companion's sight, and was seen no more ; Whatie walking many miles into Hawera, without clothes, to bring the news. GREYMOUTH],.7/ February 9. ■"Protection.was .obtained .to.-day to coj}-. struct a tailrafce 70 chains iri' length at the Seventeen Mile Beach rush.. ShoulcVthe. venture turn" but'"succeisfur*the'flcit Will" give : employment . -tp\ thyusaiiclSi.-.The miners embarking in.,the .undertaking are some: of the bebt'Tnen'irr the district/and are sanguine of success. ..... T , . In; the R.TVL Court' to-diyV dent'Magistrate,-Mr. James inented "on tlie necessity' of obtaining European interpreter'iii Chiiiese c cases':' it present the.. Court was completely at the mercy of thfe' who" might or •might not be' aii : intetested'pSrty. 1 '- ai- ;; nelson; : ■ ~-j f L February. 9h:;; At; the annual meeting of the Golden Ridge..Mining Companyvw'hose elainJ : is situated ; near , Gollingw i ood, i ithe. -balanc.e--sheet showed a substantial ,credit,ba)ance. The company'has been paying 'good dividends for some • yeai'S/ !: ahd ! 'are' abouttaking up more ground. 1 AUCKII^ND. February 9. , The annual sheep' f-air was very-poor compared with forrjier.ones. Uiu Three gum diggers went to bathe in the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia. None of them could swim. John Singleton got .out of his depth ; his two mates sprang in to his assistance, and after a desperate struggle, in which all three were nearly drowned, two got out, but Singleton was drowned.

At'the Police Court, Edward Hitchham was charged on remand with deserting his wife and child at Waimate. The SabInspector said he had received a telegram from the police authorities in Christchurch, and he would, in accordance with .its instructions, apply for a remand of the prisoner to Waimate. ' TIMARU. February 9. The Lincolnshire farmers left Timaru this morning to inspect the district here and at Waimate. Another 18-ton cargo boat for the Harbor Board arrived from Christcliurch yesterday. NAPIER February 9.

At the R. M. Court this morning a man named Ford was charged with placing an obstruction 011 the railway line and was remanded. Detective Grace arrested him under a flax bush. He gave his name as -John Ford, but stated that he was better known as John Hutton. The account he gave of himself was that he arrived at Port ;Chalmers about eight years ago as an immigrant. He afterwards went to Melbourne, Sydney, and other places in Australia, and returned to Wellington about nine'months ago, and has been without employment ever since. Ho walked from Wellington to this district, calling at all the stations without getting work. For eight months he had not had a day's work nor slept in a house, and had made up his mind that ho would do something that would got him into prison. With that view ho placed a largo piece of timber on the rails near the 35-mile post, on 23rd January, and went on to Bare in u. He thought the train would bo upset, and that iho would bo looked for ; L ut as he was not, ho returned and placed another log of wood on tlio rails last Thursday evening and again on Friday morning, When arrested, ho wont with tho detectivo and poiutod out tho .first log he had placod 011 tho rails, tho spot selected beirg ono whore an accident would likely bo serious, it being at a sharp anglo and steep

incline, where the driver of the engine would be almost upon the obstruction before seeing it. It is somewhat curious that, although Ford pleads such extreme destitution, he was in" possession of a silver watch.