TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1279, 13 May 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(per press association.) WELLINGTON. May 12. The Supreme Court, on the petition of James Mills, of Dunedin, has ordered the compulsory winding ■up of the West Wauganui Coal Company. DUNEDIN. May 12. At a conference of the Vincent and Maniototo County Councils, it was resolved to send a deputation to Wellington to urge the Government to push on the Otago Central Railway, and to bring under their notice certain matters connected. with settlements in goldfields districts and fencing, valuation. The William Davie brings 14 saloon and 24 other passengers, all well. One death occurred on the passage. She left Glasgow on January 20. AUCKLAND: . May 12. - Robert Little, described as "a bootmaker, Queen-street,, was charged with concealing a number of pictures, with intent to defraud his creditors in bankruptcy. Mr. Thomas Cooper appeared for the trustee in bankruptcy, and Mr. George for the defendant. The case was adjourned till Monday. The defendant was allowed bail, himself ; in LIOO, and two sureties in LSO each. . May 13. At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the. Grammar School to-day Mr. O'Rorke moved, and the Mayor seconded a resolution —That in the matter of university education Auckland is at a great- disadvantage' compared with the South, and that a college should be established in Auckland, with a staff of professors. Sir George Grey proceeds South by the Te Anau to-day. The City Council last night struck a rate of 9d in the '£, and a special ra:te of Is 3d.

Mr. Edward Walsh, nephew of Mr. Caldwell, stationmaster at Hamilton, passed from the guard's van to a passenger carriage while the Waikato train was in motion, but fell off. The driver of the engine returned and found Walsh unconscious near the line. His left leg was smashed close to the groin and his right leg below the knee. Walsh died a few hours after. Deceased was only married on Sunday last. The surveys of the Patetere land have not sufficiently advanced to allow the ■ Block to pass the Cambridge Land * The progress of the-railway to Te Awamutu is causing a great rise in the' price of land. The City Council has decided to number the houses in the principle streets. The Grammar School Governors to-day affirmed the desirability of combining a boarding branch with the Grammar School.

LYTTELTON. * /- The ratepayers' yesterday rejected a proposition to establish a public; library, under the Libraries Act. : Yesterday iiear Waterton a man named Norris was stuck up by two men and robbed. .The police are in pursuit. TIMARTJ. May 12. Large numbers of laboring men are leasing here for Capetown, owing to the gloomy prospects for the winter. * The South "Canterbury Amateur - AthleticClubannual spor tscommenced to-day. The weather .was wet and disagreeable, but the events were capitally contested.