TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1301, 8 June 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. June 7. At a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Association this . afternoon, the new Licensing Bill was discussed, and the following amendments proposed :—The fee to be reduced to L 3, with uniform 11 o'clock licenses ; family hotel licenses to be struck out, as the result would be that all boarding-houses would et .licenses ; I clubs to be owned jointly by members, and to be under supervision of police ; malt liquor not to be sold in less quantities than five gallons. It was stated that members of the legislature supplied private cellars from Bellamy's at cost price, and a resolution was passed that Bellamy's should stand in the same position as a club. The meeting adjourned till to-morrow, when the discussion will be resumed. June 8. The Licensed Victuallers met again this morning. Several suggestions and additions in reference to the new Act were passed, and it was resolved that a deputation should be appointed to place thtm before the local members of the House of Representatives. DUNEDIN. June 7. A cake of 87oz. of gold from 204 tous of quartz, from the Homeward Bound claim, arrived at the Arrow last night. CHRISTCHURCH. June 8. The operation of the Benevolent Association were highly successful yesterday. Over 80 persons were supplied with f!>od. Subscriptions to date amount to L 270. The Licensed Victuallers have held several private meetings to consider the new Licensing Bill. Another meeting of the unemployed was held this morniug, when a draft petition to the American Government was adopted. It was resolved that the petition be lodged at various parts of the town for signature. A monster meeting of the unemployed will be called at an early date. AUCKLAND. June 7. A man named Worms, charged with forging a receipt for L 3, purporting to be signed by Messrs. Hoffman and Lawrence, and Gellings, charged with forging a cheque purporting to be signed by J. Abbott for L 65 on the Colonial Bank, were both remanded.

Mr. Cosgrave's shop was broken into last night and the cash-box rifled of LlO. The police are investigating the case. June 8.

The Rev. Atterbury, alias Cornock, was again brought up this morning to answer to various indictments against him. The charge of larceny as a bailee is now bemg proceeded with. Joseph M'JS'amara deposes" having given the prisoner LlO to pay Mr. Quick for hire of carriages at his wedding. Prisoner appropriated L 6, returning prosecutor L 4, and pretending he had paid Mr. Quick L 3. Later. The charge of larceny as a bailee against Rev. Atterbury has broken down, because M'Namara did not entrust him with any definite amount to pay Quick. WANGANUI. June 8. The meeting re property tax terminated without any definite resolution being come to. A motion advocating either the imposition of an incoaie tax or such modification of the property tax as would make ic less inquisitorial was lost. So was an amendment advocating the abolition of the property tax and the substitution of an income tax. The issues were not distinctly put to the meeting.- and a large number did not vote either way. NAPIER. June 8. A meeting was held last night for the purpose of securing the reading of the Bible in public schools. The Bishop of Waiapu presided, and the Revs. St. Hiil, Spear, Horel, and Penny were present. It was resolved to present a petition to Parliament praying that the Bible tnay be read without note or comment in the schools. A Committe was appointed to get the petition signed, and it will be forwarded to the local members for presentation. A counter petition is going to be got up. WESTPORT. June 8. The report that the colliery works bad received serious injury is incorrect. The only foundation for the report is that a truck broke away last week and displaced a few sleepers.

TIMAK.U. June 7. The barque Mercia sails for London tomorrow, with a full car>;o of wheat. The Committee of the Harbor Board is actively engaged in collecting evidence against Mr. Blackett's report on the Timaru breakwater. The evidence will be forwarded to Parliament. All the local papers comment very strongly on the inconsistencies contained in Mr. Blackett's statement, especially where he quotes Sir John Coode and Mr. Carruthers. The Timaru School Committee to-night declined to bring the compulsory clauses of the Education Act into force, because the schools were already overcrowded, and it was doubtful when extra accommodation would be provided. June 8. At a Committee meeting of the Harbor Board, Mr. Woolcombe, Captain Cain, and other old and influential residents testified to the litter inaccuracy of the statements contained in Mr. Blackett's report as to damage done t > railway works through the erection of the breakwater.

- The members of the Levels Road Board passed a resolution affirming Mr. Blackett's representations in reference to the encroachments of the sea at Caroline Bay to be contrary to local knowledge and "experience. The same body resolved to prosecute further their action for having the Levels district constituted a County. The wife of Thomas Morris, laborer, had some words with her husband on Sunday week, over Morris getting drunk over-night, and left her home. Her body was found yesterday in the Qpihi River.

A petition against the Property Tax has been largely signed, and will be forwarded to Wellington at once.

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