TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 September 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PP.ESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON. September 18. At a meeting of the Reform Association last night, it was thought desirable to hold a public meeting with a view of receiving suggestions to prevent the large exodus of people from Wellington. The Friendly Societies intend holding a great fete on the Prince of Wales birthday, At the District Court this afternoon judgment was given in the case of the Bank of New Zealand v. Howarth, Solicitor, Dunedin. The action was brought to recover L 99 for which the defendant became security in the estate of Cattel and M'Crece. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs. The Wakatipu, which leaves for Sydney this afternoon, takes 03 saloon and ICO steerage passengers.

DUNEDIN.

September 17.

The Star states that Wardens Stratford and Wood retire, their districts being annexed to Dunstan and Tuapeka. September 18. There are nine prisoners for trial at the Supreme Court sittings. Information has just reached town that the brewery at the North East Yalley has been biirned flown. It was insured in the Northern Company for LIQGO.

CHRISTCHURCH. September 18. On Wednesday a farmer named Johnston while ploughing at the Upper Riccarton, was so injured while trying to stop the plough horses, which had bolted, that he died yesterday morning. On Friday Francis Roberts, an infapt, died under mysterious circumstances. His mother, formerly a lunatic, was the only witness of death. At a meeting last night it was resolved to establish a Hunt Club in Christchurch. The, preliminary steps were taken at a meeting last night for the purpose .of endeavoring to elucidate the question as to the identification of the lost tribes of Israel.

AUCKLAND. September 18. The first number of the Observer, an illustrated weekly paper, devoted to politics,* society, literature, and sport, was issued to-day. Last evening 3. robbery of jewellery at the City Club Hotel was perpetrated. The stolen property, whiah 'is valued at LIOO, belonging to .Mrs. White, the landlady of the house. The pqlice are making enquiries. Edward Hart, better known as the leading member of Hart's Operetta Company, was charged at the police Court this morning with a violent assault upon a young man named Russell by knocking him down with a bottle full of spirits. The evidence showed that the defendant on the previous night was engaged beating his wife, and she ran out of the room and fell into the arms of a man named Hoggarth. An altercation ensued between the landlord of the hotel and Hart, when, the latter showing fight, the plaintiff came forward to protect the boniface, and received a violent blow from a bottle of sherry which Hart had. Hart was under the influence of liquor. He denied beating his wife, but said that he was administering chastisement to his daughter; that Hoggarth had insulted his wife, and Russell was drunk and insolent. The Magistrate sentenced Hart to a month's imprisonment.

PALMERSTON NORTH". September 18. Henderson, the man selected by the townspeople to accompany Moss, the prospector for gold, to Fitzherberc, returned last night. He says that the reported discovery of a reef by Moss i 3 a hoax. Henderson, however, picked up in a gully large lumps of rich quartz with gold plainly discernible all through. The result of the trial disclosed the fact that although no definite reef was discovered, there is no doubt that there is gold in the vicinity. Several parties have left town to try thpir luck at prospecting. Henderson gays that the -whole features of thjl country warrant the assertion that there is gold all through the ranges. -

NELSON. September 17. A man named Edward Goulston, who is supposed to have come from Christchurch, died suddenly near Mo.tueka yesterday afternoon. The man, who is said to leave a wife and four children at Christchurch, had been working in the neighborhood for some time, and is said r,o have been drinking. He was returning towards Ngatimoti when he was taken ill, and died without a struggle. An inquest is to be held.