TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1238, 6 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. April 5. The Post to-night says, that although the exact figures have not yet transpired, we believe that the actual receipts from Customs revenue during the period quoted amounted to about L 903,000. As the estimate was L 950,000, it will be seen that it has not been reached by nearly L 50,000. The stamp revenue, we understand, has realised about L 112,000, or LI3OO under the estimate. To L 125,000 deficiency under.this head must;be added the refuntl of nearly L 20,000 on account of duty wrongly levied in the estate of the late W. B. Rhodes. The practical deficiency of these two sources is therefore about LBOOO short, and the railway receipts about L 55,000 under the estimate. On these four items alone, therefore, the the revenue has fallen short of the estimate by over a quarter of a million. Charles Mars on was the man who lost his life at the fire at the Awahuri Hotel last night. A servant girl who jumped from the window had her leg broken by the fall. Of the LISOO insured in the Colonial office, LSOO was reinsured in the Transatlantic, L 250 in the Victoria, and LSOO in offices out of the Colony. A preliminary inquiry into the circumstances of the loss of the schooner Rosannah Rose was held before the Collector of Customs this afternoon. The captain's statement was a repetition of the particulars already telegraphed, with the exception that the vessel was not a total wreck, During the investigation, it tranr spired that while the crew were absent from the vessel a portion of the cargo, consisting of two boxes of tobacco, was stolen. DUNEDIK April 5. The Civil Service Commission held a sitting in Dunedin tc-day, and will continue taking evidence for several days. April (5. Butler this morning applied for a charge of venue on the ground that the public mind was prejudiced against him. The judge refused to grant the application, considering that such prejudice did not exist, but granted a postponement of the trial till Thursday week, to enable the prisqper to. prepare his defence. Gorman's Ki'rtlebum Hotel, nirje mile? from Cromwell,-has been totally destroyed by fire. It was insured in the Union office for LSOO. AFOKLANP,

April £>. The Piako Swamp Company have gold Eureka station to Mr. B. Sutton, of New South Wales. The area is 20,000 acres. This sale will be immediately followed by many others, a,nd about 30,000 acres of drained and reclaimed land will be placed before thp public in amall lots for sale on fair t.erpis.

At a meeting.of the Society, a letter was read from Mr. Manning, New Caledonia,, .suggesting the desirableness of introducing crab fish into New stating further that they could be conveyed to the Colony. The Society deferred consideration till it had funds in hand.

Inspector Runciman and Veterinarysiirgeon Nante, accompanied by Messrs. Fortham, Storey, Dunsdale, Burke, and others, proceeded op Sunday morning to, the Woodlands station of the Bwamp oompany for the purpose ,of slaughtering the cattle supposed to be infected. Two were killed, and found to be badly infected. The same party proceed to Eureka station to slaughter and inspegfc sohje niope, Inspector Runciman has ordered that no cattle are to be allowed to cross the bridge at Hamilton from the Waikato country, and will probably declare the whole of the countryman infected district. . April 6. At the Supreme Court to-day, Frank Fox, a bank cleric, pleaded guilty of em-, bezzlement, and received a sentence .of three years, A. man named William Streeter, a bullock driver, was gored by a bullock which he was driving by the aid of a dog. The latter bit the bullock in the h e elj and the animal turned suddenly and gored the man : in the abdomen. He was removed to the Hospital; where he died this morning, Streeter was well known in the South of the Colony, CHRISTCHURCH. April 5. : The second section of the tramway line was commenced to-day from Cathedral square, to. Papanui. In consequence of the great inoonvenience ofobstruction to traffic during the construction of the first section, the City Council have determined to appoint an official supervision of the work.

In consequence of the of the libel charge against the Daily Times at the eleventh hour, Mr. Stead has in ex-

planation handed to the Pressfdr publication copies of. letters from? his that after advising him ithat a prosecution ,would lie, he! was suddenly informed,that it would be useless to go on. Mr. Eenwick, however, was not advised, and arrived to-night by train, being ignorant of the withdrawal, and had his journey for nothing. April 6.

The Springfield Colliery Company is erecting new machinery ,at. its. wi>rks. This coal is coming into very general use ittjGaht'erbury. . At .yesterday's, meeting .of the. City Council a letter was read'from "the Governmefit. intimating that hofurther payment- of subsidy mnst -be looked for. Barrenger, the New Zealand Bank clerk, who was committed for trial for embezzlement yesterday, is to be discharged, the judge not having received an intimation of his committal before discharging the Grand Jury. He will be discharged and re-arrested, and proceedings taken de novo. A requisition was being signed at Lyttelton yesterday asking the Defence Minister to organise a Volunteer Naval Brigade. An enquiry into the stranding of the schooner Saxon will be held at the Cus-tom-house to-day. The case of the bank clerk Barringer, who was committed for trial for embezzlement, oame up at the Supreme Court this mornings It was found, after argument, that he was committed for trial at the next, and not this, session. The judge notified that he could apply for bail to the magistrate. The number of bags of grain carried on Friday, Saturday, and Monday were 46,019.

INVERCARGILL. April 5. The police are actively enforcing the provisions of the Licensing Act. This morning John Hughes, of the Carriers' Arms, was fined L 5 for permitting dancing in his licensed house during prohibited hours. The Commission on Railways, which arrived on §aturday, have been busy with local matters. They remain, in the Southland district until Thursday, when they proceed to Queenstown, thence to Cromwell, which they will reach on Friday, the 9fch, in order to' inspect the country to be traversed by the Otago Central Railway. The Qornmisgionerg will drive to Lake Wanaka from Cromwell on Saturday, returning to Dunedin about the 15th inst., via Clyde, Kyeburn, Hyde, Macraes, and Palmerston. At the Chamber of Commerce, to-day, attention was drawn to the irregular running of trains, find the .President was requested to write to the Minister for Public Works regarding the matter; at the same time drawing his attention to the fact that when here recently he promised the length of time occupied in the journey between Invercargill and Dunedin should be lessened, BLENHEIM. April 5. Railway-communication between Blenheim and Pioton was resumed to-day, GISBORNE. . • •' April 5.

Latest news from native sources at Nulieaka shows that the quarrel among natives still remains unsettled. , The chief Wireroa has been sent for by contending factions, but .declines to .stir. . There is a rumor here that' His Honor Judge Rogan is about to institute'legal proceedings against J. A. Wilson, Land Purchase; Commissioner, for, an slanderous statement contained in his official report, forwarded to the Government some two years - Sgo, which "ultimately led to a special commission of enquiry being held into Judge Rogan's judicial conduct in regard to land matters along theTEast Coast, terminating in Mr. Wilson's retirement from the public service.'

Ifc is said that the decision in the Native Lands Court, recently given by His Honor Judge Halse in the remaining case of Waingongoro No. 2-,- in- relation to which land the. alleged slander arose; supplies prima facie evidence because that decision uphelcl the judgment given by Judge Rogari.