TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1194, 13 February 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. February 12. The Government have nominated the following members for the Harbor Board:—Mr. W. H. Levin, M.H.R., Colonel Pearce, and Captain Williams. The Royal Commission, was formally opened at Hawera yesterday, but no regular sitting will take place for about a week. r "."4 Second Lieut. Bennett, of the Wellington Naval Brigade, has been appointedFirst Lieut., vice Lieut. Inglis, resigned.' The Naval'- Brigade -intend sending 100 men to the Easter encampment at Christchurch, exclusive of the band. The Early Closing Association have come to satisfactory; arrangements .- with the drapers in reference" to closing their shops at 6 o'clock of an evening, Saturdays excepted. February 13.. r At the Police Court to-day, ; Captain Dempsey, of the schooner D'Arcy Pratt, was summoned by the Collector of Customs for carrying.;scamen who were not on the articles. This being the first offence of the kind, the defendant was fined 10s and costs. CHRISTCHURCH. February 12. Henry Marks was summoned to-day for Sunday trading, under the well-known Act of Charles. 11. . The defence was that the Act did not apply to .modern times, and especially to the colonies, any more than the equally old, and also unrepealed Act by which scolding wives were to be publicly ducked.' The R. M. took time to consider. February 13. At the annual general meeting, last night, of the Permanent Investment and Loan Association of Canterbury, the directors' report showed that the dividend would be at the rate of 10J per cent, per annum, and that a bonus of 7s per share on the investment shares would also be payable to the capital •of shareholders after the Ist of March.

The southern "Volunteers taking part in the Government prize firing at Nelson will have to leave Lyttelton by the Tararua on Thursday, 26th inst. They will arrive at Wellington on the 27th, and on the 28th the s.s. Wellington will make a special trip to Nelson direct. At a meeting of the Committee of the Canterbury Liberal Reform Association last evening, the following resolution was carried :—" That the Secretary write to Sir George Grey, and respectfully request that he will come to Christchurch to address his constituents, as this Association still considers him to bo their representative in Parliament." The performance at the Theatre Royal last night in aid of the Irish Distress Fund was only moderately attended. It is rumored that an action for libel is to be commenced against the Ashburton Mail by Mr. Stanley Bruce, architect, for having published an article condemnatory of his design for the hospital buildings. Mr. David Craig, of the New Zealand Insurance Company has been appointed General Manager for Canterbury of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company. The business will be transacted at the offices of the former company. GRAHAMSTOWN. February 12. A man named Michael Sullivan was killed yesterday in Kauri Bush. He, with three more, were cross-cutting a log, when, without warning, a kauri pine growing on a steep hillside fell, killing Sullivan, who was on the top of the log, instantaneously. His mates lay under the log, and escaped.

DUNEDIN. February 12. The body of the man found floating in the water near Grant's Braes yesterday l afternoon has been identified as that of j Walter Rice. He is believed to be a recent arrival from Tasmania. There were several slight punctured wounds on the left side I of his neck, and a handkerchief was tied round it, as though, after attempting to cut his throat, he had repented of the deed for a time, and then determined to drown himself. He must have died by drowning, as the cuts on his neck were slight. At the Harbor Board meeting, to-day, the bank-book was laid on the table, and showed a credit balance of L25,29G 133 Sd. February 13. Petty Officer Monson, of the Port Naval Brigade, has entered for the Nelson prize firing meeting. Some Chinese working at Macetown obtained a patch weighing 51bs gold. Four small insolvencies have been filed this week. Water is very scarce in the Cromwell district, and mining is almost at a standstill. In banco, this morning, his Honor the Judge granted a rule nisi for new trial in the case of Mackenzie v. Smith, and suggested that the case should be taken direct to the Court of Appeal, on account of the importance of the points involved. AUCKLAND. * February 12. The ship British Empire was admitted to pratique this afternoon. The native Herewai, who was arrested at Helensville yesterday for robbery, made a desperate attempt to escape this morning. Watching his opportunity, he knocked over the constable and bolted. He was chased and captured by a railway official. HAWERA. | February 13. \ The telegraph wire wa3 cut near the Mahi stream, on the . Waimate Plains, yesterday evening. The natives are engaged digging potatoes near the spot, although it is reported the potatoes are not ripe. They commenced digging them yesterday, and are suspected of having cut the wire. NELSON. February 12. i A girl sixteen years of age named Annie Scafer, who came out as an immigrant on board the Edwin Fox, attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the Government wharf last night. Her screams attracted the attention of Mr. Percy, who succeeded in rescuing her. She was charged at the Police Court and remanded for a week. At the District Court to-day, George Sayers, overseer in the Public Works .Department, a bankrupt, applied for his discharge. His total liabilities were put down at LSB, and assets at L 42, his principal creditors being Mrs. Sayers and Mrs. George, his wife and ; daughter, both of Wellington,, who had , obtained an order for maintenance. It appeared that, just after filing, a cheque for Ll6, his salary from the Government, became payable to him, and the trustee eventually was given possession of this cheque. Mr. Bunny, for Mrs. George, opposed the bankrupt's discharge, on the ground, that he was not insolvent, and he argued that the bankrupt filed merely to avoid the maintenance of his wife and daughter. The Judge refused the order of discharge absolutely',"aliowing the opposing creditors, costs. - ■ TIMARIL. February 12. A joint deputation* from ; various public bodies met the Minister for Public Works this morning. Although he declined to make any promises, he said the Government would do its utmost to meet the wishes of the public in reference to a new railway, station at Timaru, the completion of j the Albury railway extention, tele-

graph extentian, and other works, all of which he recognised the urgent neceessity for.