TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1312, 21 June 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(PER PKESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. June 20. The Hinemoa sailed suddenly for Opur nake this afternoon. As the Native Minister is on Board, her departure has occasioned considerable comment. June 21, The rumors that a serious difficulty had arisen with the natives on the West Coast is unfounded. Mr. Bryce left on an official visit to Taranaki, and returns in two or three days. DUNBDIJS". Juno 2J. TJ-'iry FT-'V t-, >»'•••'- ; ..-i 1 ■< .' £ m ■ . : . . . j i •;•■ Q' ■i: :'i ■ ■ . i*> •• i- '•■. ' "'' j 1 iiiiit in iiiaii..>U tn f Uf aiL'iu.c offices for L 13500,

CHRISTCHURCH. June 20. There have been 185 coursing license's issued here this season, as against":9o last year. vl : Ninety : one applications for space have j been received for the Christchurch Indus*-1 trial Exhibition, td open on July 15... r - ' June 21>' There were 27,824 bags of grain carried over the Christchurch section of railway last week. At the Resident Magistrate's Court todayßichardWood was committed .fqr trial for burglariously entering and stealing goods arid cash from the shop of Mr. B." Cass, draper, and the New Zealand Clothing Company's store. AUCKLAND. June 19. An inmate of the Hospital (William J. Harris) died to-day, 102 years of age. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 21. James Hill, late Hospital Steward, was charged with having fraudulently embezzled certain articles, .property of the New. Zealand Government, on or about the 19th' November;last, i?r.ons the evidence of the principal witness it appeared that a draper supplied blankets, table linen, etc., to the late steward, who substituted a fictitious'vouoher for the goods, and for which the Government | paid. The prisoner faas committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme* Coiirfct - . ; •

■ The natives are still ; showing a tacit, opposition to the road parties to the south of Stoney River. They have erected several fences across the line .'of road ".at Ngakutnikumi and the Constabulary have in every instance pulled the : fences down only to find them reerected by the flatiyes on thp'following day.- It is impossible to tell what ■this opposition may lead to. The first pile of the Waitara Wharf will be driven in at 4 o'clock nn Monday next.

TIMARu.

June 20.

; A truck load of first-clas3.. coal was brought into town last evening from a new mine near Albury. : April 21. George Gleeson, the pedestrian, has been sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for gambling with an under and over table on the racecourse.

Yesterday three working men na,med Alex. Gardiner and Francis and' Peter Kennedy were found by the landlord of the Washdyke Hotel very drunk on his premises. As they had called for But few drinks his suspicions . were aroused, and, on making a search, he found in the stable two empty gin bottles, which they had evidently removed-from the billiard room. .They were each sentenced to-day to one week's imprisonment. O'Connor commenced his twelve hours' walking match against time on Saturday. He covered thirty miles in the first five and a-half hours. After completing 48 .miles in 9 hours and 42 minutes, he had to yield the sponge to an injured foot.