TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1287, 22 May 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER press association.) WELLINGTON. May 21. The complete returns of railway revenue and expenditure for the financial year, or rather the period of nine months, ended 31st March, 1880, are now published. The gross receipts amounted to L 575,588, or L 59,412 under the Colonial Treasurer's estimate, L 675,000. Working expenses, L 430,284, being 74f- per cent, on the receipts, thus leaving 25£ per cent., or L 145,304, as net revenue available for interest on cost of construction.

May 22. The steamers , Manawatu and Patea, about which anxiety existed owing to their non-arrival, arrived safely at their respective destinations this morning. They were lying tinder shelter from the recent westerly gales. May 23.

The body of the lad M'lntosh, who was drowned in the flood at the Hutt last month, was found at Lowry Bay beach yesterday.

: DUNEDIN. ' . May 21. Mr. James Macandrew, M.H.R., addressed his constituents in the Foresters' Hall, Port Chalmers, this evening. Mr. Macandrew was well received, and had a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence, moved by Mr. Reid, seconded by Mr. W. limes.

May 22. At the Port Chalmers Police Court, Henry Kybread was committed for trial for stealing jewellery, valued at L 69, from Maud Leston, a passenger per the Te Anau.

INVERCARGILL. May 21. The ketch Annie, bound from Dunedin to Riverton with cargo, foundered last night on the outer sand spit, about threequarters of a mile east of the Bluff pilot station, All hands, three in number, are lost. She was commanded, by Captain Stephen Tall. The names of the two seamen on board are not known, neither is it known whether the" craft and cargo were insured. No bodies have yet been picked up, though active search has been made. £he wreck of the ill=fated yessel, almost totally submerged, has just been towed into the Bluff by the Eakanui. It was at first supposed that the vessel wrecked was a fishing cutter named the Ariel. The Liberal Reform Association sent a telegram to the.Hon. John Hall, requesting him to address the electors here before Parliament meets. The Premier has replied, regretting that time will not allow of his doing so.

CHRISTCHURCH. May 22. The outward San Francisco mail will be despatched north from here to-night by the Wanaka.

Six nominations were received yesterday for the post of City Auditor. Owing to the late north-westers, the Waimakariri was in heavy flood yesterday. The new channel through the north railway line worked well. No serious damage is reported.

A fire occurred at Mr. Peter Drummond's farm, North Rakaia, on Thursday night. A combine and a thousand bushels of oats were destroyed. The" combine was insured, but the oats were not. The origin of the fire is unknown.

The Tararua, in coming into Lyttelton yesterday, jammed a waterman's boat against the pier, throwing the occupants into the water. They escaped with a severe ducking.

NAPIER. May 21. A threshing machine owned by Messrs. Welford and Hislop, and six stacks of wheat and oats, belonging to the Maoris, were burned at Kohupatika, near the town to-day. The total damage was about LBOO. The machine was insured for L3OO in the New Zealand Company. The Agricultural and Pastoral Society's ploughing match and grain and roots show at Hastings, yesterday, was very successful, as far as the ploughing was concerned, but there were few entries of grain or roots. The prize for the double furrow class was taken by John Ramsay, a youth under 16 years of age, against eight adult competitors. An old settler named Henry Nicholls, formerly storekeeper in the country, committed suicide yesterday at Waipawa by shooting himself with a revolver, For some days he has been in a state of delirium tremens, and had previously made several attempts to kill himself by cutting his throat and jumping down a well. In consequence of these attempts to kill himself he was arrested by the police, and was yesterday charged at the Waipawa Court with lunacy. Dr. Todd, however, declared that Nicholls was not insane, but merely suffering from the effects of drink. He was accordingly released. He then went to the Post OiEce, and from there proceeded home, where he shot himself within two hours of his discharge from custody. Another old settler named Henry ■ i 'Dougall, it is feared, has been drowned.

He went out to muster sheep, and after several days' absence his dogs returned. A search has been made. M'Dougall's tracks leading to Tutaekuri river have been discovered.

TIMARU. May 22. Considerable surprise has been occasioned by the notification that Mr. Clulee, of the firm of Woollscombe and Clulee, has just been appointed a Property Tax Assessor for the Levels district, to which auother well-known resident, named John Thompson, was appointed and gazetted originally, Sinoe his appointment, Thompson has applied in vain to the Deputy Assessor to be sworn in, and now, to his surprise, he is informed that his appointment has been cancelled, the only reason assigned being " public opinion." The singular, affair is by many construed as a political job, and Mr. Thompson, having given up a permanent situation to fill the appointment, intends suing for his rights.

James Campbell, a farmer, from Pareora, had his head and limbs severely crushed and bruised this morning through a cart that he was driving capsizing on him.