TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1212, 5 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

DuidbiK. March 4. The Otago Cricket Association last night decided to invite the Dunedin Cricket Clubs to provide a team to play the Canterbury Wanderers. March 5. The Kempthorne, Prosser Company (limited) has issued a report to the 31st of January, Isßo. The profit shown for the period of 13 jjjonths amounts to L 9702 on the paid-up capital The Directors recommend that the amounfc paid for the good-will (L 7500) be written off, and the balance of L 2202 carried forward in preference to declaring a dividend.

AUCKLAND. March 4. The Christian Brethren have sqrifc 3. challenge to the Mormon Elder Lorengon to publicly discuss the Scriptural authenticity of the Mormon doctrine, but no reply has been vouchsafed. Four applications were made to-day at the Police Court by married women for separation from their tyrannical husbands. The marital discontent is attributed by the press to the Mormons. The barque Earl GrauvUle has arrived from Loudon with 317 passengers, having measles, whooping cough, and low ifever on board. She will be quarantined tomorrow, and all the information which £Ojj)d be obtained, as no communication was alloyed, was that Bhe left Plymouth on the 2?th Jfoyerjiber, and had thirty to forty cases of measles, the last case six weeks ago. Three children died from infantile diseases. There were; also twelve cases of whooping cough, one fatal, four or five of low fever, including Dr. Fox, who had been laid up for six weeks. The names of the dead could pot be obtained, owing to the illness of the docl#r. CHRISTCHUE£g, r March . The Senate closed its session this morn' ing, halving passed the following among other resolutions:—" That in the.eyent of th : e Bill for the re-distribution of seats being likely jto bebrought before Parliament, the Chancellor bo requested to call ijhe attention of the (jroyernment to the

nlainirt of the University to a member* and that the Senate of the University of New Zealand desires to express its appreciation of the services performed by its late YiceGhancellor, Hugh Carleton, Esq. > 8.A., in giving effect to the wishes of the Senate, and desires to thank him for his unwearied attention to the business of the Senate during a long course of years." v . March 5.

The English birds per the ship Waimate which will be released by the Acclimatisation Society are as follow 128 hedge hammers, 21 twites, 5 reed-warblers!, 96 thrushes, 132 : .Egyptian v. quad j tridges,' 22 ' redpoles.' The . partridges landed have cost the Society L 4 each. Some oats are being threshed at Wyllie's farm, between the Ashley and Sefton rivers, from a crop yielding 106 bushels to tlie acre. V . '' GISBORNE. March "41 : Intense excitement is manifested in the hearing of the charge against E. H. Ward, solicitor, who is now being charged in the Resident the inforipatiop pf Reperatei Kaputai, that he <U4j P& fit aqoyit the 23.rd January, 1879, unlawfully and feloniously forge the signature of William Kerr Nesbitt, Frauds Commissioner, to a ufldgr the Fpavtdg JPreyp?it|qr( 4et, to a .deed of qf the interest of Rota Waipawa and Hone Natoai, in the Matawhera Block. E. F. Ward, senr., Rogan, and Brassey for the accused ; W. L. Rees and Joshua Cuff for the prosecution. Counsel for the prosecution has closed the opening address. Jn reply to the Bench, accused's, counsel declined to prfldHge the deedg referred to. Jt is alleged if: subsequent tp. Ward junior acquiring the Matawhera property that the signature of Nesbitt was affixed. The Court is now proceeding'with the evidence.

There is an outcry amongst the public here at no Frauds Commission acting for this district. For a month past sales, leases, and other negotiations in native larnjs bare, bpefi at » gtjll, fiwipg j;o the tardiness of the Gfovemment in j appointing a Frauds Commissioner, the, present Resident who is' almost blind, declining to accept the office.; Mr. M'Donald, M.H.R., has been urged; at' a public meeting to communicate Wiethe Government with a Yie\y matters. KELSON. . . ' March 4The Aniseed Valley Capper Company yesterday struck a lode of pure black oxide of copper, § feet 6 inches wide, 12$ feet from the surface. The vein was followed down the whole distance without a break. GRAHAMSTOWN. ; ' March 4.. * The New Reef expect to come- upon the Golden Sun (which gave the Alburnia such good dividends) in 12 feet more sinking. They will break down the reef about the middle of next. week. Shares are .going tip at 27 s 6d, and are firm in consequence I of espeilpi^Mie&tiQPS:

TIMARU. March 4. Forty-nine applications were received for the post of Secretary to the Harbor Board, arid that of W. J. Tennant, of Timaru, was accepted. Grain is now coming in freely, but the unsettled state of the weather has been against harvesting, and the progress of the crops. Mft?eh §, ' Mr, Mosley 5 the antlrGhin}quy lecturer, was remanded' to Christchurch on a charge of obtaining 3s. from a tailor by means of false pretences. At the District Court, Frederick Arthur. Sims, formerly a wholesale, merchant, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for larceny. The prisoner had.,sold goods out of bond, which he previously conveyed to the National Bank, and acting on the advice of his friends, he refused to ftaqd thp proceeds pypr to. the bp,nk manager. He received an excellent character from a number of merchants, including the Mayor of Timaru, some of whom had known him for 13 years. William Tait, for indecent assault, received twelve months' imprisonment, and one flogging in gaol. William Hajl, for assaulting his wife, received two months. Duncan Cruikshanks, for fraudulent insolvency, nine months. Frank Poffy charged with: fraudulent insolvency, was acquitted.