TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1218, 12 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. " " " March 11. The Commission on the Civil Service met this morning, when Mr. J. C. York was appointed secretary. It is rumored that both the Government and the Railway Commission are anxious to obtain the services of Mr. Higginbotham, C.E., of Australia, as a member of the Commission.

The new Electoral Roll comes into force on the Ist May next. DUNEDHST. March 11. The Star says that the person who has been running down the colony in the columns of an Irish paper called the Ballymena .Advertiser is a member of the Civil Service.

Mr. Stewart, M.H.R., to-day received J the following telegram from the Colonial Secretary: "The Acting Minister for Works, I am informed, has instructed Mr. Blair to intimate that work on the Hindon section (Otago Central Railway) is open to men wanting employment at rates by which ordinary men can earn 28s per week if married, 21s per week if single. Tenders will be called for rationing them, so that the Government will be satisfied that there is a fair surplus for family and 'other uses. The tools are to be paid for by the men, but the cost will be repaid on their leaving the work if in good order, deducting a fair amount for wear and tear.—Thos. Dick." The Harbor Board at its monthly meeting this afternoon, appointed Mr. D. L. Simpson engineer to the Board, at a salary of LSQQ per annum. March 12. Judge Johnstone will take the Waimate bush fire cases next week. Judge Williams will take the West Coast circuit.

Capt. Thomson, the Harbormaster, after 20 years' service, has applied for leave of absence. He %vill visit the Home Country and bring out the Board's Hopper dredges. At a meeting of the Harbor Board, reports were read from the Harbor-master, showing that the effect of dredging and the tide-wall was that in one plaoe the channel had been deepened by six feet. The body of a man, name unknown, was foimd on the beach at Molyneux between Clyde and Cromwell. Forty men were discharged from the Cromwell mine owing to alterations in the working. Mr. Mills, Managing Director of the XJnion Company has despatched a special messenger to Port Chalmers with instructions to send the Koputai to bring the Te Anau up to port, It is, likely that the Albion will be brought from Nelson to convey Te Anau/a, passengers with as little delay as possible. The Te Anau will probably reach Port Chalmers to-morrow.

The Government have lent the Arrow Municipality L 2500 for water; supply purposes at 7 per cent. The City Guards turned out to receive the representatives, and entertained them. Colonel Stavely and Major Wales paid a high compliment to the champion, CHRISTCHURCH. March 11. The Ram and Ewe Fair to-day' was a miserable affair, even compared with last years. Not a ewe was sold, and the rams fetched poor prices. The little interest taken in the affair may be gathered from the fact that the sale was all over to-day, instead of extending to two days, fts usual, After the contributions to hospital support and charitable aid have been deducted from the Christchurch share of the grant to municipalities, there remains only L 620 2s as its subsidy for the six months ending 30th June next.

An enquiry was held this morning before Sub-Inspector O'Donnell into the alleged case against con,s.table Carraher qf assaulting a drunken woman referred to yesterday. The depositions taken will be forwarded to Wellington at once, and in the meantime the constable has been suspended from duty. The committee of the unemployed had an interview this morning with Mr. Austin, the District Railways Engineer, from whom they learned that work would be provided for all applicants upon a stated scale on northern railway works. On Saturday morning passes will be issued to Waikari to all who may apply. A horse and dray, the property of Mr. Joseph Graham, of Lyttelton, fell over the bank in St. David Street, opposite Captain Wood's house, into the pond below, yesterday. The dray was loaded with stone. Something caused the horse to suddenly back, smashing the fence, and going clean over the bank. The dray was broken to pieces, and the horse was instantaneously killed.