TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1215, 9 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. . March 8. . Major Gordon's report from the Waimate Plains on the Wellington unemployed is highly favorable. The Railway Commission commenced their regular sittings to-day. Mr. Curtis, of Nelson, was elected chairman. It' has been decided that' their meetings shall not be open to the public. Mr. Edward J)qwjiey was appointed secretary, and Mr. Mitchell shorthand reporter." The Commission, after concluding, phpir sitings here, will visit the - several.. ports of the colony, Tho Minister of Public Works left for Picton, Nelson, and the• West Coast this evening, to thoroughly investigate the system of working the railways in those districts. ■ :'■■■. :, The total amount subscribed in aid of the Irish Distress Fund is L 660. j March 9. The Civil Service Commission has been appointed. It comprises Sir R. Douglas,

Messrs.gAf Saunders! aridl M.H.R|^^^eHonl!p..| > Thjal lip-day. 00he Gqinmisiibn toj decide upon the best Weans of prompting; locai industries is "to appointed shortly, i ,yv'• DUNEDIN. March 8. "" At "the' City-'Poliee: j Edward? JRees, aged 13, and James M'Elhenny were charged with fruit steal-ing;-'"The master "oFtlie c lndusMarScHo6T stated that rjdnce M'Elhenny!s ; admission into the 'School,' it had got'into"a most disorganised state. He said that he was just as happy doing wrong as right, and did not care for gaol floggings. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and Rees to six months, the former to receive twelve stripes with a cat-o'-nine-tails ; the latter, twelve with a birch. Mr. Stewart, M.H.R., has telegraphed to Mr. Oliver as follows :— il A deputation from unemployed has just waited on me. They state that a meeting, attended by 500, was held this morning to urge that the Government should find immediate employment on the Hindon section and Mullocky Gully. The unemployed represent carpenters, bricklayers, a few engineers, a large number of ordinary laborers. Many are recent arrivals. A number are married. What can the Government do for them? The case seema to be one of urgency." Scarlet fever and typhoid are very rife in the citv and suburbs.

Several burglaries have been reported to the police. On Thursday the residence of Mr. Kohn, jeweller, was entered, and jewellery valued at Ll5O abatraoted.

An Order in Council has been issued ordering a special sitting of the Supreme Court on the 15th inst. This has been deemed to be necessary owing to the failure to adjourn the Court at its conclusion of the case M'Kenzie v. Smith.

At the Harbor Board meeting to-day, a committee was appointed with the view of taking action at the ensuing session of Parliament with respect to the Board's borrowing powers, it being considered desirable that efforts should be made to get the Government to take the Board's Borrowing Bill as their own. The twelfth annual meeting of the Standard lusuranpe Company was held torday, The report, which was adopted, recommended that no dividend should be declared. The chairman, in reply to questions, said that the losses had been confined exclusively to three offices, viz., Sydney, San Francisco, and London. The directors had decided to close the San Francisco office, and the London agents had been imperatively instructed to confine their operations to colonial business. The directors pyop.as.ed making suglj limitations as vpujd preclude the possibility of the same losses occurring again. They had resolved on discontinuing certain business which/had''all along proved unremunerative. Messrs. J. Reid and J. Curie were re-elected directors. Maroh 9.

Thj Benevolent Institution's, report the revenue for the year to be L 5534, and the- expenditure L 2794. There were 1521 peraona relieved. Deserted wives reoeiyed the lion's, share., The Committee say that special efforts.are needed to. cope with the increasing distress.' '" " '"■"■':" -'-K "'■ ' ■

At the City -:. Court to-day, J'ames Gibson, for stealing from the person, was 'committed for trial. '■''■■-

CHMSTQBUReH.' " -•■ ;.-,■..- ;..•....• March 8.,, ; The amount of grain carried to date on the Ohristchurch section of railway— Winchester; to: Amberley and Jjr-ancb.es—-is 119,331 bags. '"'"" Entries received for the Canterbury Ram and Ewe Fair are—rams, 1640 ; ewes, 108. Twelve' cases of " typhoid -'fever --have 1 been reported during the past fortnight. Montague Mosley, the anti-Chiniquy lecturer, was.acquitted to-day on a charge of obtaining'money By false preteneeai ' A deputation from the unemployed waited upon Messrs. Stevens and Andrews on Saturday,. and requested. those gentlemen to forward to 'the' Government a petition signed by over 150; -' '•"•"" • y: ' A fire occurred on Mr/ T. M'Qormick's farm, near ,pn Saturday, damaging the greater part, and totally destroying a considerable quantity of some 1500 bushels of wheat just threshed out. The fire is.supposed to hav,e\been caused by a man lighting his pipe behind a stack. The grain was not-insured. A telegram has been received from Mr, Qliver, promising-work. fop. the unemployed on the same terms as those on which men. are working in the Horth Island. ! - •' .■ March 9.

Dr. Irving, president of, the .Canterbury Beekeepers' Association, gave a practical itlustration in the Domain. Gardens yesterday of the process of transferring a swarm of bees from an old hive to,,a modern bar-framed structure.' A' large number of country visitors were present, some coming from as far as Timaru. The City Council has, placed; the ,old Post Office at the disposal of the Review Committee, and it is,intended to utilise it for sleeping accommodation at faster. An. attero.pt was. m,ad,p at 3, o'clock yesterday morning to burn down Manchester Bros.' store at Waimate. The perpetrators are unknown. '• •'• ' '■'■'■■'■'■

A little girl named Elizabeth Gillpin, three and a half:years' old, when'getting, into the train yesterday at Burnham with ; her parents, fell between the platform and the carriage. The train moved on at that moment, and before the child could be' rescued her left arm was smashed to; pieces and she had suffered a compound fracture of her left foot. When brought to the hospital the arm was amputated; a little below the shoulder. The little! sufferer is doing fairly. ■ A lunatic named George Ford, who; escaped from Sunnyside Asylum on the; Ist March, was captured on Sunday even-i ing. He had been out on the West Coast: road. < AUCKLAND. March 8. Dr. Fox, of the ship Earl died at the Quarantine Station of fever, i The Premier has expressed his surprise; at the progress made in Auckland since his last vis}t here. To-morrow deputa-. iions pommence-r-rEirst, Mr. HaU will re-; ceive a deputation respecting the L65,Q00. grant for roads and bridges in the North ; and second, a Thames deputation relating to their railway, and the native difficulty ; on Wednesday he leaves for Mata Mata to assist in the celebration of the opening of the Upper Thames River navigation.

The Government have decided to appoint two Cattle Boards, for Auckland and Waikato, and Gazette regulations for, their guidance. , : At a meeting of the Thames Farmers' Club, it was stated that the cattle in thai district were not diseased with pleuro, bui suffered from exhaustion in consequence of the long voyage. ; Arrived—Waitaki, at Manakau, with the Suez mail. ; The rumor that Mr. Hamlin, M.H.R.j intends to resign is contradicted. March 9. :

The Naval and Artillery Volunteers are arranging for a repeption to Thomas, the winner of the oarbine belt, and other representatives. Major Heaphy is holding an inquiry into the old land claims. The most important case is that of Captain Beadon, R. M,, who claims a large portion of the Piako Swamp now in the possession of the Piako Swamp Company. Mr. Buckland advocates a subscription of LSOO to purchase the remainder of the cattle introduced from New South Wales by Mr. W. Payne, with a view to their destruction. Mr. Buckland publishes a

letter from the Chief Cattle Inspector of Victoria admitting that pleuro-pneumonia prevails throughout that colony. The Premier is engaged with the Hon. Mr. Whitaker to-day in transacting departmental business.

Yesterday, a passenger by the train to Waikato jumped off between Taupiri and Huntley, rolling down a steep bank. He ; Kas 'sihcer It 'is supposed that he is fatally injured. No further cases of pleuro-pneumonia afe'xepofted; The Cattle Inspector: will make further inspections in. the country districts. Charles Williams, alias French Fred, has been committed for trial for uttering a valueless cheque, and giving it to the landlord of an hotel., ,-.,; GISBORNE. , ~ '""_.,,'... March B.' : On Saturday the Ven. Archdeacon Williams, sole surviving trustee under Captain Reade's gave evidence in the alleged forgery case against young Ward, solicitor for the estate. Captain Ferris is expected to give .evidence favorable to the accused, and Major, tiatterly, Ward's clerk, evidence 1 ,: to 'strengthen the prosecution. There is no direct evidence so far to shpw : that Ward forged Nesbitt's signature, and it is l expected ?thai if a committal be ordered .it; will be for uttering, a deed knowing the signature to be forged.

TIMARU. i . ,■..:.•;. . - March'B,

'■ At the R.M. Court, to-day, ~W. Quinn, Charles Pontiff, Charles Hawkins, John Keen, Michael Lynch, and Joseph Sims, laborers,-were, .committed ,for trial at the Supreme Court for forcible entry on the land.of James Coll, at Makikihi. ~Quinn held over the: Jand. Mr..Beetham, Judge of thVAssessment Court, ordered a new roll to be struck for the Levels Road Board District, on the grounds of informalities in. it.

;:.'■.";.■ -NAPIER. "*: • ; ■■ ) "r..".:-: •': March,B. i The meeting of unemployed, called for Saturday night, proved a great fiasco. ', About fifty men,, two-thirds laborers, rolled up. The. convener of the meeting unexpectedly asserted that there was plenty of work and then said there was none, and concluded by'returning to his first statement and offering to get work for any who said they could not find it. The next speaker strongly denounced the no-employment , cry, saying that every man able arid willing to work could get constant employment Mr; Bennett, coriverier of the riieeting, said he must dispute this, and mounted a barrel, which .did duty for a platform, but some one'pushed the barrel froih under him'; 7 and he fell heavily-to the ground, where he lay stunned for some time. On recovering, he offered' to fight any one in a thirty-six foot ring for love ; or inoriey. This concluded the proceedings. '

NEW PLYMOUTH: ;.U .'■■■■■ • .'March 8.

\ A telegram has been received from Mr. Rees, Harbor Board Engineer, at.present in England, to- the effect that the levels in connection with the harbor works will be taibst' likely altered, and advising the immediate suspension of all works untiL his arrival in New Plymouth. Accordingly the men on the harbor works on Saturday last received-a week's-notice, andin the mean time a ; special meeting of the Board will nicst likely be called to confirm the action,before the men are paid off. *•■ A meeting has been called by the Mayor, to arrange for the reception of our volunteers ;on their return frorii Nelson on Saturday, next. It is also intended to invite the Auckland and Thames yblun;teers ashore, and entertain,.them at a banquet. -.>..: ..;,.: ; : ■'■;■■■.'. : March 9. : : A gentleman named William Rodgers, iktibwn as , a farmer at Opotiki, -which' 'place he left for the purpose of settling here, died a; day's illness' at' the Olarendon B.barding-hbuse last riight. He' was apparently, in go9d ; health on' Sunday, ;and his death is very ; The Royal Native Commission has concluded its sitting at Waitara.. The Com-, mission will remain here another week, and will then, return to Patea.-■ ,