TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 16 July 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

1 WELLINGTON", t July 15. The business of the Gavernmsnt Insur- - ancu Department for the year ended 30th 3 June shows the following results : Over 3 8000 proposals were received for more t than a million sterling. Of these pro- - posals, upwards of 2200 became policies, t assuring a sum exceeding L 720,000. The 3 new premiums exceed L 27,000, which is 3 considerably in excess of last year, notj withstanding the depression which' has 3 prevailed. The quinquennial investigation 3 has now commenced, and the result, after l being examined and certified to by emi--1 nent English actuaries will be laid before 7 Parliament next session. ) , Mr. Ei. C. Hammer on,: Secretary of ) Stamps, has been appointed Public • Trustee, and will,' with slight additional 3 clerical assistance, discharge both duties. ~ . , ■ July 16. 3 It .is intended to send another batph of 3 25 of the unemployed to patea in! a week 3 and 50 more three weeks hence. A fire was discovered last; night in! Mr. - Whitehead's stables, and extinguished before much damage was done. The stable was insured in the Union Company for LIOO. '., ;' ; Ernest Gilchrist, a child 19 months!old, was accidentally drowned at Otaki yesterday. Arrived—Merope, from London. CHRISTCHURCH. ; . ' ' July 15." i. —rpjjg Harbor Board contemplate length ' ing-ihe Lyttelton dock by 50 feet, which 1 will make it 250 feet on the floor; it jwill, ' then be the longest dock in the Southern Hemisphere. ' July 16. Captain Paterson, of the barque Hud" son, fell off the wharf at Lyttelton last ! night and was drowned. AUCKLAND. . July 15. In connection with the fire at Hamilton, at. which the jury returned a verdict of : incendiarism, last night Mr. Swan, who had erected a temporary shed around the chimney, and fixed a pair of bellows, heard some one "prowling round, but could not see anything. " This morning, on going to work, he found the bellows had been cut with a knife and rendered useless. Great indignation is felt,, and hopes are entertained that the police may speedily discov.er.the perpetrator of these repeated* outrages. *,. _ •; NELSON. July Is. .i The'.Hon. Edwards, M.L.C., died at.his residence,' Sunnyside, this morning,- 1 aged 58. ! -' • BLENHEIM, ......... j v July 13, Stevenson's Hotel at Renwitjk,Town, 7 miles* from Blenheim, was destroyed iby fire last night. Qne man whose, name is at .present unknown was burnt to death. ■ OHINEMUTU. July 15. f.., On Wednesday ievening. a meeting; was r iJield bat vWaiatoa of-two tribes}-for £h& - purpose of drawing up a new §caJjej pf' r eha<?g§Bi ß ¥o Rdtomafaanar r ttirfaqes. These charges~~ia,re"tb be reduced, .and the t^d^Mbfetf'!&aVe l afreed I ,*iAifcho\igl\ /in 'thfe'Mlddle-oti winter, the number of tourists have ; been visiting the lakea ( j *