TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 1 July 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. June 30. The Customs duties for the month amount to L 15,094 7s 7d, 120 births and 31 deaths were registered and 31 marriage certificates issued during June. July 1. Arrived, Pareora, ship, from London, after a passage of 97 days. Her passengers are all well. An apprentice named George Freeman, aged 13, a halfcaste, native of Christchurch, while engaged at the main chains, fe l overboard and was drowned. All endeavors to rescue him were unsuccessful. It is supposed that b t e was struck by the mainsheet blocks. A deputation of unemployed waited on the Premier this morning. He held out no hopes of giving employment near town, what he wished was to get them upcountry on the land ; however, if the deputation would supply the Government with information as tp trades of unemployed they would endeavor to get them employment on public works throughout the Colony at subsistence wages. The Customs revenue for the quarter amounts to L4G,089. The amount for the corresponding quarter of 1879 was L40,73G. BUNEDHST. June 30. The Customs revenue collected at Dunr edin for quarter ending 80th June amounted to L 183,218 4s lid, against L 176,948 9s lid for the correspondingquarter of last year. The vital statistics for Dunedin for June were:—Births, IG3; deaths, 53; marriages, 41. The late rains have caused heavy floods in the Taieri River, ana several slips on the railway line. A telegram from iNaseby states that the snow on the mountain is melting. CHRISTCHURCH. June 30. During June there were 198 births, 41 marriages, and 53 deaths in the city and surrounding district, iri each case showing an increase over the figures for the same period of last year. For the six months ended June 80, 1880, there were 1051 births, 260 marriages, and 429 deaths, the latter alone showing a decrease over the first six months of last year. July 1. Yesterda/ a number of gentlemen by invitation attended a meeting of the Committee of the unemployed for the purpose of advising them what to do in reference to Government offers of wages for work on th,e railways and village settlement. The Committee were advised to accept the offers and the Committee decided to recommend the unemployed to do so. At a meeting yesterday it was resolved to establish a line Art Society to be called the Canterbury Society of Arts. A meeting is to be held this evening to .consider the property tax. The Christenurch Bowling Club lias decided to establish a Bowling and Lawn Tennis Company, Limited. The Sunday School' Centenary Celebration was continued yesterday by a teachers' convention and a conversazione, both of which were highly successful. The following suggestive advertisement appears in the Lyttelton Times this morning " Wanted—All true Irishmen and Catholics to assemble on July 12, at Cathedral Square. The peace of the city must be preserved." AUCKLAND. July 1. Mr, John Sheelian proceeds to Wellington per Rotoniaiiana on Saturday, Angelina Harvey, barmaid at the Greyhound Hotel, a young and pretty girl, was charged this morning with stealing Ll2 from Ernest Brown, whilst drunk. Edward Lawler, butcher, of Wakefieldstreet, was charged with bigamy. It appears that one of his wives has just come over from Australia. Accused was remanded. GRAHAMSTOWN. July 1. At a meeting of the Borough Council, the following resolution was passed unanimously :■ 1 That this Council has heard with alarm the intended stoppage of subsidies before the expiration of the time stipulated, and fears its inability to keep up contributions towards the maintenance of the local hospital and charitable institutions unless the subsidies are continued or provisions made, other than that provided for in the Government proposal." The charge of perjury was heard to-day against Henry Elms Campbell, solicitor, and was dismissed.

TIMARU. June SO. The Custom 3 revenue collected at Timaru in June , was L 1721, being a decrease of LlOl compared with the corresponding month of last year. The heavy rains of the last few days have caused floods in the rivers. A heavy sea has been running, but no injury has occurred to the shipping. The breakwater stood splendidly. HOKITIKA. July 1. ; Mr. Cowlishaw, of the firm of Cowlishaw and Plaisted, a passenger from Melbourne, per Albion, while transhipping in the roadstead, the stage from the Albion to the Waipara was turned over, and Mr. Cowlishaw fell into the sea and was drowned. The night was pitch dark. INVERCARGILL. June 30. The viuil statistics for Invercargill for June are :—Births. 43 ; deaths, 9 ; marriages, 2.