TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1313, 22 June 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PBESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. June 21. A large number of Corporation workmen have been.discharged, there being no more work for lyhem. A'further number, will be discharged at the end of the present week. CHRISTCHURCH. June 21. The Clematis was rather severely injured by the collision with the Rotorna, and had she been struck a little .further forward would have sunk. The J master throws all the blame on the Rotorua, but syere that the captain of the steamer told

him it was his own fault, and she should have got out of the way. Two men were drowned at a bay on Banks Peninsula called Waikerikeri on; Saturday last, while loading'the E. U. Cameron with timber. It appears that, on launching the boat, it hung for some time on the ways, filled with water and capsized. Waller and Rowland tried to reach the shore, but became exhausted and' were drowned. Both 'were single men. The body of Waller was washed ashore at Waikerikeri on Sunday. An inquest will be held. . . June 22.

A requisition has been signed asking the Mayor to convene a public meeting to consider the property tax. The entries for Industrial Exhibition number 110, and include specimens of oanici. - m&vhe made from New Zealand flux.

Lasc night the Sydenham Borough Council resolved to write to ex-Mn.yor Booth, who is now in London, requesting him to ascertain if a loan of from L 30,000 to L 50.000 can be raised for the use of the borough.

At a public meeting at Akaroa, a resolution was passed condemning the property tax, and advocating a land tax and an income tax instead. TIMARU. . June 22. A pitiable tale of destitution was told in the police dock to-day by an old greyheaded man named Dyson, who pleaded guilty to-stealing six flannel.,shirts from a drapery warehouse. He pleaded; in extenuation that he was a tailor long j out pf work, that he only arrived from Dunedin yesterday after travelling- 150 ; -miles ori foot, and that starvation had driven him to crime for a living. He was remanded pending enquiries. r One of the church congregations here has resolved to organise a : teetotal and anti-smoking society. AUCKLAND. June 22. : The mail steamer Australia has arrived from.Sydney, and leaves at 2 p.m. for San Francisco. KELSON. June 21. The charge made against Mr. Acton Adams will commence on Friday before a special jury. INVERCARGILL. June 21. A girl, two years of age, a daughter of a man named Smith, employed on the Orepuki railway line, fell into a water hole and was drowned.