TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1254, 24 April 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

\VELL3QTGTON; April 23. A lad -named Alfred Broom was charged at the It. M. Court this, morning with stabbing another lad named: Alfred Lindly. The case was remanded for further inquiry. : -> The insurances on Wright's house, destroyed by fixe last night, were L4OO in the Liverpool, London, and Globe on the furniture, and L4OO in the New Zealand. April 24. At 12.30 this morning the jury gave a verdict in the tramway case which was substantially for the plaintiffs. Upon the verdict the court wUI have to make an award. The steamer Manawafcu, which broke down on her trip from Wauganui, was towed into port this morning. The injury done is that the crown of the boiler has fallen in. It is stated that a strict inquiry will be held as tb the circumstances connected with the damage. The police are investigating the circumstances connected .with the fire at Bernampore. Longhurst, who was sentenced at the last session of the Supreme Court to ten years' imprisonment and two whippings, received the first 25 lagheg this morning. He bore it unflinchingly, but suffered severely. The report of the medical examination denies that the prisoner suffers from heart disease.

CHRISTCHURCE, 1 April 23. i A deputation from the Local Industry ! Association waited upon the Commission . of Native Industries-to-day, and were i courteously received. The deputation Hvere examined at considerable length, and brought under the notice of the Commission a number of matters relative to manufactures and productions. They also [ pointed'out the advisability of planting J the railway reserves hickory, oak, ! ash, elm, etc. , and the simplification and ' cheapening of the patent laws. Further . information will be collected and for- ; warded to the Commission • before they close their labors, " An accident occurred a little before one > o'clock to-day on the railway line at ' Addington, resulting in the death of a ' porter named Thomas Duffy. Deceased ■ was engaged attending some waggons which 1 were being shunted at Addington station, ' and it is supposed that while putting down | the brake he fell from the buffer under- , neath the waggons. When the trucks had I cleared away hp was seen lying across one rail cut' nearly in two. The remains s were picked up and conveyed to the • Morgue. Deceased was 53 years of age, ' and had been employed for many years on the Christchurch railway. He. was a ! sober, steady man, much respected, and leaves a large family. One of his sons is r engaged as engine-drive? on the Malvern \ brarich, and another is in charge of the ' railway telegraph office at Dunedin. It is ! somewhat singular that to-day wag the last ' day Duffy waff to work at Addington, as r arrangements had been made for his transfer to-morrow to the position of night watchman at Christchurch station, and an ' was leaving Malvern to-night to supply his place at Addington. The following is a copy of a telegram , from a Sydney merchant, received by Mr. 3 W. H. Mein, of Christchurch, with refer--5 ence tp his specimens of preserved meat i shown at the Sydney Exhibition!—l 5 congratulate you upon receiving a first ■ award and special mention at Sydney T Exhibition for preserved meats, the ' highest award given." . The Mayor has replied to the request for subscriptions to the Rowland Hill n)emorial, that in consequence of the njany demands upon the people of late, , the idea cannot be entertained, and that I if any were collected, the money should be devoted to a fund for old Post Office servants in the Colony. \ By the outgoing mail the Mayor sends ' a draft to the Mayor of Dublin for L 250 ' 18s, being the amount left on hand after the expenses of colleotion and advertising. ; LIOOO has already been sent. April 24. On Tuesday and "Wednesday 28,494 bags of grain were carried on the Christchurch railway section. At Dunsandel, while a man named M'Pherson was carting grain in a dray on Thursday, his horse holted. M-Pherson jumped off, and his feet becoming en- . tangled in the reins he fell and the wheel passed over_him, breaking his thigh. Hej was brought to the hospital and is doing well. Mr. Ritchie takes, per Island Lily, for Chatham Islands, the race horse Middleton, the winner of the Christohurch Maiden and Metropolitan, and other thoroughbred stock. April 24. At the Police Court to-day, the embracery case was adjourned till Friday next. The charges of swindling in connection with the totalisator were also ad* journed. * The Auckland Volunteers intend to hold a review and sham, fight on Queen's Birthday, and will probably invite the Thames Volunteers to be present. Mr. Wakefield, the Under-Secretary, has gone to the Bay of Islands, and will visit Whangarei and the Thames. Subscriptions are being raised for Taylor, the jockey, who had his leg broken in the Autumn Handicap. AUCKLAND.. April 23. The case against Williams, chemist, and Samuel Coombe, clothier, for alleged em: bracery in the repent case of Hughes, comes on to-morrow. The German warship Bismarck has received instructions to sail for Valparaiso, South America, owing to disturbances there affecting. German interests. The Nautilus is shortly expected here, and will take the body of the deceased Tonga prince to Samoa, The Bismarck takes a quantity of Bay of Islands coal as an experiment. NAPIER. April 23. At the first meeting of the newly=formed Cattle Board held to-day, it was decided to request the Government to extend the ! regulations to the land boundaries of the province, as well as to the sea coast, to prevent disease being introduced overland. A letter was read from the Government asking an opinion from the Board as to whether they considered it desirable to prohibit the importation of cattle from the Australian Colonies, jfn reply, the Board recommended the prohibition temporarily. It was also decided to request the Government to allow clean certificates to be given for cattle the same as for sheep. . NELSON. April 23. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at Wakefield on the body of Mr. Melville Sellon, who was a runholder, and well-known a few years since as a crack cricketer. The verdipt was that he died from apoplexy. It was said that deceased whilst riding to his home from Wakefield on the night of the 21st was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and he died by the roadside, where he was found breathing his last. * TIMARU. ' April 23. The Railway Commission arrived from Damapu this morning. They proceeded ;o Albury by special train,. returning tq ;own this evening, when they were depu;ationised by .a committee from the Chamber of .Commerce relative to the new ■ailway station, and the continuation. of :he Albury railway. In reference to the atter, it was stated that the formation to ?airlie Creek, a distance of nearly twenty niles, had been completed six months

ago, and it only required one bridge to make the extension available for traffic. The Albury branch line is one of the best paying in the colony, and its extension will open up half a million acres of ricK agricultural country, besides passing the greatest wool-growing" district in Canterbury, namely, the Mackenzie country. In reply to a telegram from the Government, the Mayor, and Messrs. Gibson, Jonas, and Captain Cain have consented to act as a local committee to collect exhibits for Melbourne Exhibition.