TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 20 August 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.)

WELLINGTON.

August 19.

His Excellency and Lady Robinson and suite leave for Sydney en route for England on the 3rd prox. Another deputation, headed by Sir W. Fitzherbert, waited on the Minister of Justice to-day regarding the sentence recently passed on Willis, schoolmaster. Mr. llolleston replied that the matter was under consideration.

DUNEDIN,

August 19.

Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co. received the following telegram this morning—"London, August 18. TII9 market has declined 10 to 12i per cent. Home buyers are the principal operators. 325,000 bales have arrived for sale. The next sales were fixed to commence on the 23rd November,

George M'Grusty and Thomas Taylor were fined LIOO each, or 12 months imprisonment, to-day, for illicit distillation. August 20. Last night's gale did a good deal of damage to various houses in the city. Messrs. Park and Curie's workshops, in Moray Place, were fairly smashed up. The back part of Campbell's Bazaar, on the western side pf Sloray Plape, were blown in. Mr. Campbell estimates his loss at LISOO. At the Port Chalmers Police Court James Davis, master of the barque John Knox, was charged with the contravention of Plimsoll's Act. The Bench considered the case, but the decision was reserved. CHRISTCHURCH. August 19. Henderson, who committed suicide at Wellington, ha.3 on several occasions been in the Court here, but he wa,3 a plausible man, and getting on the blind side of clergymen and others, was a rather prominent figure in loqal matters, His last escapade has not, however, surprised the majority of people here. It is known that he always carried poison. His statement about his wife is an ati'ocious libel. He had taken the utmost precautions 'to ceceive her, stating that he was going to Dunedin, and contriving to have messages sent from the south as though he were really travelling there. The unfortunate girl he decoyed with him was a mistress at the East Christchurch school, and was 19 years of age. GISBORNE. August 19. There is a rupaor that a valuable seam of coal has been discovered close to Gisborne. NELSON. August 19. Messrs. Curtis and Wells, the Justices who are to conduct the inquiry re the Nelson gaol, met this morning, but adjourned till Atkinson, the late warder, can be brought to Nelson.