TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 17 August 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. August 16. It is stated that several parties are gold digging at Terawhite, about ten miles from here, and although they are without proper sluicing appliances, are making fair wages. The official information received from Lake Maporatea diggings recommends that the rush should be discouraged, as it is being over done, and as it is a matter of time to get at the gold. Either deep sinking or tunnels being necessary, men without means will find themselves in difficulties. CHRISTCHURCH. August 16. The workmen at Weka Pass have come across some remarkably fine specimens of moa bones in twelve feet of .clay. They have been sent to the Museum, and are said to be the largest bones yet found in New Zealand. A perfect specimen of a fossH fish was also found in a rock cutting at Pigeon Rock.

Mr. Moorhouse, member for Ashley, by repeated disregard of his constituents' expressed wishes, has roused a feeling of great indignation. It is now said that a meeting will shortly be held to consider the" propriety of asking him to resign. The :0!!iov;ii of the station master from ..Aslilb.t jtviHon if- the' principal reason of the soreness, Mr. Moorhouse, sent no reply to his constituents' enquiries on the subject. ■ Irel Fogerty was charged at the Police Court to-day with the novel offence of walking along a footpath with some gas pipes, which annoyed other passengers. A nominal fine of one shilling was inflicted as a warning to people who might not know that a law against such a thing was in force. August 17. At the meeting of the City Council last night, Councillor Hulbert gave notice of a motion requesting the Government to establish a Mayor's Court in Christchurch. During the last week the Benevolent Association gave relief to 74 persons. During the quarter ending June 30, 55 cases of typhoid fever, 18 of diphtheria, and 4 of scarlet fever, occurred in Christchurch. Consequent upon a notice of reduction of wages the men at the Glentunnel Colliery struck yesterday. It is proposed to establish a gas company at Sydenham, a suburb of Christ church. NEW PLYMOUTH. August IG. The Roweua and the Forest Queen are still ashore at Waitara. The Taranaki Herald's account of the cause of the disaster is as follows —" In attempting to cross the bar some heavy seas struck the steamer, going completely over her, the first one filling the port boat and carrying it off the davits. At the same time the vessel bumped heavily on the bar and bent her keel plate, disabling the propeller. It is thought both vessels will be got off. The Rowena is not insured. The Forest Queen is insured for LGOO in the New Zealand."