TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1201, 21 February 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; —i —♦ ■ .'(PER-PRESS ASSOCIATION.); ' : WELLINGTON February 20. r .The following - are the members of the Royal Commission on Railways Colonel Pearce (Wellington), Messrs. J. M'Cosli Clarke (Aupkland), Oswald Curtis (Nelson), E. G. Wright, M.H.R. (Canterbury), and John Reidj .of Elderslie (Otago). wnepin. February 21. The Dunedin Artillery are practising vigorously for the. dismounting competition at the.Easter: Re view. Qn.Thursday the work'wa3 done if* thfpe':mWJtes» . Roslyn is endeavoring to have an English Church built there. Mr. Thomas Bi'inn, who was engaged on the' Government Survey staff in the Tuapeka district, died of sunstroke .received at Waipori._ He was aged twentyone, and unmarried, The racing privileges realised LG74 10s against L6lO last year. . : The Star hears.that a well-known Canterbury racingman.has instituted criminal proceedings against* the Times., and .Witness Company for alleged libels concerning the running-of his horses. .Tack. of the Naval Brigade, made 70 in firing 'for the district prices. CHRISTCHURCH. . , February 21. jfr. will 1 give another antiChiniquy lecture at the Oddfellows' Hall to-night,, and, has 'promisetl startling revelations, . A deputation waited upon Mr. Rolleston to grant a special settlement to working men here who had formed themselves into a society. Mr. Rolleston held that the better plan would be for them to take up land on the deferred payment system, as special settlements involved great difficulty, He gave rfo definite answer, as sufficient information was not laid before liiiq, but offered facilities to applicants to go round to inspect aud choose a block, when they could communipate with him again. Yesterday morning a fire broke out in the back kitchen of Hathaway's store, East Oxford. The building was soon burned down. The East Oxford- Town Hall caught fire before assistance could arrive, and was also destroyed.

Complaints are made of fires in the Rakaia district, caused by locomotives, and which are very dangerous, and threaten to burn valuable crops if not seen to in time.

. A reaper and binder at work in a field in the Rakaia district caught fire by some means, and. was burned. The horses were saved and so was the crop, with some trouble. The machine is supposed to have been wanting oil on its bearings, or a lighted match was carelessly thrown into it. ■ .

The insurances on the East Oxford fire are—Town Hall, L3OO in the South British ; Hathaway's store and contents, LIOO in the National and L 525 in thp Xew Zealand. Very little was saved, from either place, except the furniture from the Hall.

4- I}eekeepers' was formed last night, and appears likely to become a rather large one. It is intended once a year to have a special meeting for the exhibition of apiarian objects. On Thursday night the slaughter-house of H. B, Lane, butcher, on Lincoln Road, was burned down, with all the premises. The damage is estimated at L4OO. Insurances —L2OO in the New Zealand. No cause is at present given. . The s.s. Wanaka spoke the ship Westland, from piyptjouth for this port, §Gdays out, off Le Bon's Bay.this morning. She reported two deaths, from scarlatina, and that there were several cases of measles and scarlatina under medical treatment. In consequence of yesterday's telegram ffoin. Invercargill, the Review Committee met and drew up a circular to the following efi'eot: —The Committee hayp secured ample accommodation'- for 1700 men at the Immigration Barracks, which consists mostly of rooms to sleep four up to fourteen men each, the whole to accommodate 1000 men if required, and comfortable quarters for officers, Thp places is scrupulously olean. The bedding will be supplied by au:upholsterer., and meals by. an experienced- hotel-keeper. The ' canteen will be held: in the barracks, and thp-remaining billets will.be.,among the hotels in town, Jf you prefer going under caiivas at your q\yn esppnse", bringing your own camp equipageyfhere Dqiijg lione available here, please atlvisfe by telegram or return of postj and fili iip tlje form forwarded by the A.Q,M.Q.' wjtli fflenp, No. 1. " " ' * AUCKLAND; ; ' ; 'February 20. Mr. Richard FeHiis 'fell olf the Queonstreet wharf. in the forenoon, land was helplessly drowning, when a young man named Evan Owens, a seaman lon board the JPenguin, jumped in. and brought the exhausted man to Stringer's wharf. ASHBURTON. February 20.. At the li.M. Court to-day, a man named Bouge was lined 50s and boats, foi- cruelly ffl-treatirig- :arhorse by beating it ;yjtlj, a plough chain. ! Harvest'operations are rapidly-approach? ing. completion, spying; po the excellent weather that has" prevailed. The crops p,re turning out extremely well.j

IN YEROAiICrILL. j February 20. At the reaper and binder cojutest, held under thp ajjspices of the Southland Agricultunil Society, Marsh's Harv'egtur ? with a Deering Binder, made magnificent work, not a single band breaking, taking the first prize, a gold medal. The machine

entered by Messrs. Mason and StrntLers, of Christchurch, and worked by their man, obtained second prize. The Osborne, a iwire binder, was third..^ Major Tube, ?saye hofte mope fouiySms." Sir \VfyFox, W-'reply, s&d- tjiat was in the front and anoth*er s HeKind the load would be shifted. Mania answered that that would be the death of the .horse, « <1 | lw * " * a*! \J If * i—! JTebrnarySfl. ""A" lad natsed"~3Fames escape;frdm";drowning in the Kanawanga yesterday. He was pluckily rescued by a lictle-IXy-riaihe3"s ? earce. • *zrT? Thers> ~i?"r ?paa}t« probability., ofßowe floating' as the Auckland capitalists have o'ombined against him,

> Great dissatisfaction is felt here on. receipt of the Southern files at the l meagre and incorrect report of Sir George; Grey's speech sent South. f The Government is urged to procure some alteration in the conditions under which the goldfield is leased from the natives, who levy black mail on anyone working the surface of the soil.