TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 6 September 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON. September 4. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson left for Sydney, en route for Eugland, at six o'clock this evening, by the steamer Rotomahana. His Excellency was accompanied on board by several members of the Ministry. The various corps mustered in force and formed a guard of honor. On the steamer leaving the wharf, H.M.S. Danse' and the local Artillery fired a salute. September 6. It is stated that the Government have called upon an insolvent Justice of the Peace to resign.

DUNE.DLN. September 4. kee Guy, the second Chinaman charged with the .murder of Mrs, Young at Kyeburn, has been remanded to the 13th inst, Mr. H. Bastings, one'of the Waikaia candidates, received a vote of confidence at a large meeting of electors of Tapanui on Saturday night.

CHRISTCHURCH. September 4. An inquest was held this afternoon on the lad Lewis -Wallace who died in the hospital yesterday. A verdict was returned to the effect that death was the result of lung and brain disease, accelerated by his having drunk a quantity of brandy. It appears that the immediate effect of the new scale for the payment of railway employes will be a considerable reduction, and an uneasy feeling seems to prevail among the men in consequence, September 6. In the match at draughts between Mr. J. Reid, Champion of Otago, and Mr. R. Boswell, of Christohuroh, the latter won six games, and Mr. Reid one, while three were drawn. On.Saturday evening a cabmam named Vew was arrested for drunkenness and cruelty to a horse. He resisted the constables when putting him in the look-up, | and fell breaking one of his legs. I

AUCKLAND. September 5. Arrived —Milly, brigantine, from Oamaru, and Helena, brigantine, from Oamaru. The Mayor has issued invitations for a conversazione to celebrate the opening of a free public library in the old Mechanics' Institute building on Tuesday. Sir G. Grey, Sir G. M. O'Rorke, Mr. Justice Richmond, and the Mayor will be amongst the spectators. Two Maoris fishing outside Wangaroa Heads in a canoe recently were capsized, and one was drowned.

The daughter of Mr. Star, of Ngaruawahia, died suddenly last night. 'She was playing a concertina in the evening and seemed quite well. About o'clock she became suddenly and d}ed in a quarter .of an hour. : She was 14 years of age.

A most serious accident befell Mj>. M'Laughan, the respected master of the Pakurangi hounds, was passing through hia stables when a horse kicked out viciously, striking Mr. M'Laughan in the pit of the stomaoh. - The latest advices are that he is lying in a serious condition. At a meeting of the attended; .None of the'members of the Assembly attended, though-invited. I)r, Wallis has promised to aid them in fcjv warding a petition to Wellington, September 6. Henry N, Huline, proprietor of the Provincial Hotel, has been fined LIQ and costs for allowing gambling: in his house. The Wellington footballers commenced practioe this morning. TKe general impression'is that the Wellington team isl stronger than that of-Auckland. • • -

; A dozen Maoris have stopped the survey of the newly-acquired purchase • by Mr. i F^th; s ; I .They,Bay.it was leaaecl.by natives

having no right to it?. They behaved quietly.

KELSON. September 5. News from Collingwood states that a Maori named Makehu was killed on Tuesday last by falling over a cliff at Pakawata. Deceased was pig-hunting with Mr. Dodson, J.P., when his dog was thrown over the cliff by a large pig, and it is supposed that in his excitement he stepped over the precipice. Efforts to recover the body have been futile.