TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1271, 4 May 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. ' May 3, The Government have decided to open the Post Office Savings Banks from 6.30 p.m; to 7.45 p.m. on Saturdays. This is done as an experiment, to ascertain what benefit working men will derive from such extension. . _ " A boy, name unknown, aged 13, was drowned off the Queen's Wharf to-day. He was fishing, when he lost his hold, and fell in. His cries were heard, but on persons proceeding in the direction from whence they came, nothing.- could be found. The body has not yet been recovered. : DUNEDIN. May 3. James Rogers, in the employ of Mr. David M'Kellar, Tapanui, was found dead on the ranges on Sunday, with part of his skull blown away. He was out rabbitting, and is supposed to have accidentally shot himself on Friday. The Foresters are going to erect a monument to the murdered Dewar family. May 4 The John Elder arrived at Aden' on May 1. The Lusitania sailed from Plymouth on May 1, with 312 passengers, CHRISTCHURCH. May 3. The Customs revenue collected during the month was L 18,273 lis 2d. The land sales during the month amounted to L 9359 0s 7d. May 4. A meeting last night of the Sydenham Borough Council passed a resolution to call a meeting to protest against the removal of the railway staff to Dunedin. On Saturday night Mr. Malcolm Kerr, while returning from the head of the bay to Barry's Bay; was thrown from his horse and instantaneously killed. A verdict. was returned at the inquest of accidental death. The Christchurch City Council last night resolved to forward a protest to the Government against the removal of the railway staff. AUCKLAND. May 3. All the members of the Civil Service Commission are now here, and will commence to-morrow an examination of the railway works officials. ; Messrs. Hamlin and Harris will address their: constituents this week. Mr. She'ehan will address, his constituents at the Thames about {Saturday. ; The beach at Wangarei heads is thickly strewn with dead schnappers.; The cause puzzles local savants. The larrijriti eleqignt is increasing. Larrikins pulled down and hustled street preachers last night, chasing them along the main street. The police were quiescent. An information has been laid by Mr. Stickley, superintendent of the Industrial Home ? against Constable Adams for indecent assault on an inmate aged I<3. The farmers complain of drought. The caterpillar pest is very bad in the districts south of Auckland. NELSON. - May 3. A great deal of excitement prevails in town ponsequpnt on a rumor tq the effect that the Government haye resolved to let no fresh contracts for railways in the Colony. There are large numbers of unemployed'who have been looking forward to obtaining work on the trunk railway to the West Coast, and- not' being, accepted, and their means being expended, a feeling of grp'at iineaginpss ppbv^ilsj.