TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1214, 8 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) "WELLINGTON. March 8. ] A seaman on board the Go-ahead named j Robert Campbell died, suddenly yesterday,! afternoon-,, "during the vessel's passage':! from Napier to this port. He was at, the> ,wheel when observed suddenly to-j fall ; down; :All restoratives were of no avail\ and W expired in a few" minutes. X- christchurch; . • Marcli 6. Three thousand one hundred bushels of prime wheat were sold privately to-day at 3s,7sfl, delivery to be taken at Hinds. , v Swan ;had .finished 100 mile's ai&'3d, p.m. last evening.He seem6d"sleepy but. not ..distressed, and. after, a short. restslowly walked over the course till the appointed; hoUr.'of 10 o'clock, , : '; i A memorial has been sent by the Chamber of Commerce to M£ Oliver, pointing out the disparity of rates charged between Lyttelton and Christchurch,.and. Dunedin and Port Chalmers, The farmer is 3s per ton for seven miles, and the latter 2s per ton fop eight miles. On the Bluff jine the ohavge is the same as Port Chalmers. The Chamber point out that the Minister himself strongly denounced discriminating rates, and urges him to put the Lyttelton line on a better footing.; ;• March 8. Mr. E. G. Crisp, the Borough Council Solicitor, has entered criminal motion for libel against the Ashburton Mail, Several malignant cases of' diphtheria have recently broken out in the neighborhood of Rangiora Bush. ■ Three deaths from this disease occurred in one family. The single women per ship Westland will be released from quarantine'to-day. Threshing machines are busy through* out the whole Ellesmera distriefc, One cj-pp.pf harlpy. yiftldes f'd bushels, per acre, in addition to seconds ; two crops of the same cereal yielded 68: bushels ; a crop of oats yielded 85 bushels; and a crop of wheat yielded ,60 bushels. In the Eyreton and' Cust districts farmers' are suffering from a scarcity of freshing mftpliinpa, The "Premier has written to Mr. J. L. Wilson, tlie Chairman of the'R'oad.Boards Conference, stating that the reason why the LBOOO, the balance of the sum due to the Canterbury Road Boards, has not been paid is because the Waimate County Coßngil glaitjig a lfiFg§l< ghtvye . that hijshertp tfl 4s: , HAWERA. Marpli 8. There ip nflt tfye slightest foundation for the rumors afloat relative to' insubordina-r tion on the part of the unemployed at Okatea. The contrary is the fact. GRAHAMSTOWN. March §. Salmon have been seen in numbers in the Qlilaeiinuri, apparently making their way up stream.. The natives have been catching them, but the police are taking steps to prevent them ivom doing so in futurg, ■ Yernor, agent for the Korwioh Union Company, and who was concerned in the dispute case Driscoll v. the Company, has been dismissed.