TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1217, 11 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

Wblmnqtqn. March 11. Mr. Burns, formerly M-H.R. for Roslyn, has been appointed a member of the Commission on Local Industries. Mr. Parkinson lias hpen appointed shorthand reporter to the Civil Service Commission. DUNEDIN. March 11. The expenditure in connection with the Dunedin Hospital during 1879 was L 5740. At a meeting of the shareholders of Messrs. liempthorne and Prosser's, Company, it was stated tbst P.f 1-0,000 shares sent to London, 5855 were taken up ; and it was resolved that after floating the remainder no more were to be issued. A letter was read from the Lyttelton shareholders disapproving of the entire good will bppig \yrjtten off, and suggesting that L2SOG only should bp devoted to that object, and a declaration of 7 par cent, dividend. These propositions were negatived. The retiring directors were reelected.

Sunday and yesterday's rains have done a great,deal of good, and the City Council has cancelled the order stopping the supply of water to machinery. fhg Acclimatisation Society has raised the coursing fee to Is. The police have arrested Ernest Sydney James and Henry Conway, two boys concerned in a robbery of jewellery last week. They appeared to-day and were remanded till Monday. The Resident Magistrate has practically dismissed the information against the West Harbor Council. . CHRISTCHURCH. March I}.. Constable Garraher, who was fined the other day for assaulting a drunkard, was shown yesterday to have kicked a woman he was arresting. The Magistrate expressed regret that there should be a man in the force given to this kind of thing. The Inspector promised to institute a searching inquiry. For the champion four-oared race at the Heathcote Regatta on March 24th, the first prize will be a silver cup and L2O. The second prize, will be L 5.

There are at present 102 children in the Lyttelton Orphanage. On Tuesday evening the northern train ran into a horse valued at LSO, and broke both his fore legs. ' As yesterday's mid-day goods train from Ashburton to Christchurch was nearitig the Rakaia Bridge, where a temporary looplinp "vyas forced during the lowering of the permanent way, the engine, with several light trucks, ran off the line, the latter being capsized. The engine ploughed along the ground, burying itself up to its axles. Only a slight shock was felt in the single carriage attached to the en<T of the train which consisted of forty, trucks of grain, sheep, and old sleepers. One truck of sheep capsized. No trucks were injured. A relief train was cfuickly despatched. Repairs wpre speedily effepted, and the express train was cjejaypd orjly two hours. : ' * ' ' The passion of the native lands court at 'Kaiapoi opened yesterday before Judge

Symonds. Regardiitg.'.ihfe applications of jHo»| of one of the principal kjlaimasnjSi ' V •. > i , . < ' ; J fHAWIiBA. ! . • ' < March 11. • "is quiet at ?the camp at Otaki.The road has been considerably straightened near the camp towards Kanpokonoi, by cutting across a swamp. Deep drains , have been made, the whole done in an exceedingly mahlike.?>inanner. Oil the north of the...caiqp. ir 6Q r ... chains, are.alrea.dy formed towards "Oeo. The Constabulary and the-' Militi&f :agi*ee; very welLindeed,.. notwithstanding the .prediction to the contrary, and the latter are rapidly becoming adepts with long-handed shovels under the instructions of the former, who are exceedingly kind to their distressed brethren.