TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 25 September 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON,

September 24.

The Post says that at a .Cabinet meeting it was decided to throw ' open for settlement blocks round Okaiwa, on the Waimate Plains. The terms and - conditions on which the settlement will be open for sale on the Ist November next, at Oarlyle and Hawera, are as follows :—The land is classed under three schedules, the prices being respectively LlO, L 6, and per acre. Land specified in the ftr&t schedule will be sold an3 the lands enumerated the 2nd and 3rd schedules on deferred payments, subject to the provisions relating to suburban and rural land of part three of the Land Act, 1877, and to the provisions of section nin,e of the Land Act, 1877, Amendment . Act, 1877, and to the provisions of section nine of the Land Act, 1877j Amendment Act, 1879. No person will be allowed.to acquire more, than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments. '"'lf there should be more than one' application for any village allotments offered'for : cash, the said allotments be put up to, auction among the and if there should be mogg than one application for any §»iall farm allotment offered, the righfc"to - occupy the allotment will be by lot among the »p-. plicants, oply. .. .. : ; The Town h*\a to. the Chief Commissioner- of Police calling on Kim 'to institute. an inquiry* into the iU-?treati»ep,t of <a prisoner by. two constables, The Premier left for the sputlj. by the Taiarpa this afternopp. \< '.•AO'-.r'Y'rli V'September 25. At a meeting of tfye Yolu^teer'^l^;'it l *i^tte(Bided

review on the racecourse on the Prince of Wales birthday. A letter was received from the Town Clerk asking the tion of the volunteers in receiving His Excellency Sir Arthur Gordon. A meeting of the shareholders of the Wellington Tramway Co., was held las') night for the purpose of considering the following proposition from the purchasers of the line. The purchasers offer to pay all debts of the Company, and to refund to all the shareholders who have actually paid up their shares to the extent of L 4 or more in cash, a sum equivalent to the sum which such shareholders would be entitled to receive, if the whole capital of the Company were paid up, and if the whole sum which on the mcst favorable estimate could be recovered from the promoters had actually been recovered and paid in cash ; and if certain shareholders who are alleged to have wrongly surrendered their shares, were placed upon the list of contributors for the full value of their surrendered shares.— Carried unanimously. Mr. Kennedy Macdonald, auctioneer continued his sale of jewellery last night, and the police have laid a second information for a breach of the law. The cases will be heard on Tuesday. A public enquiry into the charges of ill-treatment of a prisoner by constables will be held on Wednesday morning, before the Magistrate. John Watson, the lamplighter in the employ of the Corporation, attempted to commit suicide this morning by taking two and a half ounces of laudanum. The dose was, however, too strong, and acted as an emetic. Watson is out of danger. [Watson is an old man, and exceedingly eccentric. This'is not the first occasion on whioh he has made an attempt upon his life.]

DUNEDIN. September 24. At the meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, the Engineer's report was adopted, and it was resolved to leave with him the main responsibility of carrying out the work of completing the channel with the means at the Board's command. September 25. A small store and dwelling-house on the Anderson's Bay Road was burned down last night. By the fire at Samson's coal pit, Green Island, several miners have been thrown out of employment. The fire was caused by the subsidence of the bottom strata, which endangered heat, subsequently causing ignition. At a special meeting of the Colonial Clothing Company yesterday, it was decided to wind up voluntarily, and a committee was appointed to investigate the circumstances under which the late Secretary produced a credit balance-sheet, when it had since been proved there was at the time a debit balance of LSOO.

CHRISTCHURCH. September 24. The directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory, having decided upon the necessity of obtaining a new aud powerful engine, have further resolved to invite tenders from New Zealand firms. The engine will bo a ©O-horse-power one. Arrangements have been almost completed with regard to a cheap trip to the , Melbourne Exhibition. The steamer Hero has been selected. She accommodates 150 excursionists. The route will be Lyttelton to Wellington, thence to Sydney (staying 3 days), thence to Melbourne (6 days), back to Sydney, and on to Auckland (2 days), thence to Lyttelton. The fare, including board and residence, will be eleven guineas. Mr. C. Whitefoord gave Judgment last night in the inquivy into the loss of the ketch Sarah and Mary, to the following effect :—That no satisfactory evidence has been given to account for the origin of I the fire, and that the whole evidence given by the master and mate is thoroughly unreliable and untrustworthy; costs, amounting to L 35 19s, to be paid by the mastgy 0? the vessel. September 25. The Lyttelton Times amateur performance for the sick fund last night was favored with a crowded house, and the I entertainment was a great success. I At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the following resolutions were passed : —l. That in the opinion of this Committee it is desirable that all deposits required under average bond from consignees of goods should ba paid into the hands of trustees, 2. That a telegram should be sent to, the President of the Melbourne Qhsrober of Commerce, inquiring if' the deposit demanded in Melbourne from consignees is to be paid to trustees or to the ship owners. AUCKLAND. September 24. The railway eiftpioyofs have resolved as a first s.tep towards obtaining equitable treatment to petition the Commissioner of Railways for the North Island to be placed on an equal scale of pay with Southern men. Mr. J. M. Dargavill§, and Mr. L. Archer, the leader of the party of French voyageurs, have been visiting places up Northern Waiaroa, where the former owns land supposed to be suitable for a lime yard. Mr. Archer selected a place called Dohoatua, twenty miles aAoye Sargaville township. He expresses satisfaction with the land in unqualified terms. He says Upper Wairoa River greatly resembles part of the Rhine, and appears sanguine of- success. Orders have been received for the consfcabularly at Kihikihi to proceed to Taranaki. September 25. Ten of the unemployed have applied to the City Council for stone-breaking. The New Zealand Providential Society held a special meeting last night. The meeting adopted a resolution for a levy of 5Q per cent, upon present contributors, extending over six months, in order to liquidate outstanding claims. The meeting was very lively, and some of the shareholders advocated prosecuting Kaokune. 111 the course of the discussion it transpired that the old oash-book before the Society was rssusoitated was stolen. Several members expressed regret at being connected with the Society. NEW PLYMOUTH. September 94. Mr. Halse, counsel for the Maori prisoners, will appeal to, the Supreme Court on the four points raised at the trial—1. Tha.t the indictment was bad for its uncertainty as to the description of the locality. 2. That the West Coast Settle-, meat Act, 1880, is ultra vires. 3.. Thai no place of highway notified by ifys governor under the Act was deposited in the survey office ; and that th,e District Court had not jurisdiction to try an offence when the punishment may be a life onQ.,