TELEGRAMS.

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

TELEGRAMS.

(per press association.) WELLINGTON October 6. The cook of the schooner Madeline has been arrested for attempting to use a knife against a seaman. Accused is a colored man. DUNE DIN. October 5. At the Criminal Sessions, the following cases were disposed of : A. Wieler, false pretences, 12 months' imprisonment ; James Williams, perjury, found guilty, sentence deferred ; J. stealing from the person, 3 years' penal servitude ; Alfred Hall, horsestealing on two charges, % years' hard labor on each, sentences to be cumulative. R. M'Quade and W. Yelding, charged with stealing from the person, were defended by Mr. Stout, and acquitted. At a public trial of a new steam exoavator to-day, David Proudfoot, the contractor for the harbor reclamation, said he had been forced to procure the machine in consequence of the high wages demanded by the men. He thought the times had come when laborers would have to accept 6s or 6s 6d per day, and his firm would pay no more. The excavator has proved a great success. The annual walking show of stallions torclay waq an pxcepticmally good one, both thoroughbreds and draught stook being well and numerously represented. Among the blood stock, the principal attractions were King Phillip and his two colts Mameluke and Goai. The first named was in a condition which reflects great credit on Wm, Kirbv, while the two-year-olds are as fine looking youngsters as we. have seen bred in Otago. Mameluke, a bay, is a bit bigger and more powerful than his brown companion, but both show a lot of quality. Mr. G. Dodson's Satirist was also much admired, he having finished into a . fine lookipg ssire, Mr, Powell's Young Pollen was in the pink of oondition. Old Stormbird looked well considering his years, and little fault could be found with the appearanoe of Young Angler, Roebuck, Manuka, Shales, Harkaway, and Cotherstone. Of the draught stock it was difficult to pick out the best, various horses being awarded the palm according to the tastes of the onlookers. As a whole they formed a fine, exhibition of quality. Mr, Conyerg learned from the news? paper telegram? the first intimation that his services had been dispensed with. The official letter reached him this morning, and report says that he gets three months notice from dato. It is stated on good authority that the services of Inspeotor Mallard are to be dispensed with. . There are general; expressions of regret, as both privately and in his official capacity Inspector Mallard is held in high esteem. October 6. Williams, for perjury, has been sentenced to six months. This constitutes tho calendar, except the Kyeburn cases. Six children were committed to the Industrial School by the City Bencli today. They belong to the family o$ O'Neill, who was convicted at Lawfsop& for fraudulent tyiflkruptcy, and whdaq

Inspectors Mallard anci Fax are notified , that their will fee dispensed; with after the 3lstJnSt. The Qtago and Southland districts will be undertaken by Commissioner Wel'don and two inspectors; CHRISTCHURCH. - ' ♦ . < : OctoberS. The Customs returns..for last quarter amounted to L 48,741 12s Bd. The Acclimatisation Society have determined to prohibit Sunday fishing. ' The reductions in the police force have been very startling. During the sitting of the Supreme Court Christchurch has been entrusted'to the-safeguard of one constable, and Lyttelton is also insufficiently protected. This has been partly caused by the drafting off of six men to Ripa Island to watch the Maoris, in place of the discharged armed constables. To-day a notification has been received to no less effect than that all the Inspectors in Canterbury and Westland are to be dismissed after 31st October. This will necessitate the retirement of Sub-Inspector O'Donnel, Christchurch ; Inspector Pender, Timaru; Inspector Feast, Greymouth ; Inspector Buckley, Kaiapoi; and Inspector Kiely, Hokitika. October 6. A prisoner who escaped from the Akaroa lock-up on Monday, but was recaptured, has escaped again. The Acclimatisation Society' 3 hatching operations are so successful that the Society is rather puzzled what to do with the young trout. A Maori whaling party at Jkoraki have caught a large whale. The new railway tariff has created great dissatisfaction as affecting local industries and as being unfair as compared with charges in other parts of the Colony; Twenty-five Maori prisoners, including j the chief, Wm. King, arrived in Lyttelton yesterday from Dunedin. This morning after interviewing the Maoris in gaol, they sailed in the Hinei&oa for Wellington. AUCKLAND. October 5. Anumber of passengers by the Waikato are men of means come to settle. Another agitation is to be got up about the unemployed. Gftrrard has been joined in his efforts by Victorian aijd Wellington men. They propose forming a Labor Union. October 6. In the Supreme Court to-day, Alex. Smith (seventeen years of age) was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and three private whippings with the cat, of twelve lashes each, for indecent assault. Cecilia Carrol and Eliza two girls, for stealing from dwelling, were sentenced to si:£ months. The newly-fpjmed Tuttersalls Club xftet last and adopted rules, is keeping -}is people busily employed on a large cultivation in the bush between Hikurangi and Kawhia. The Kingites assume an attidude of the j utmost indifference to what is passing at Taranaki. Some Maoris allied with the Waikato tribes have got into trouble there through their fencing proclivities, but Tawhaio's followers say that it se?v©3 them right, and that all th.il, <jomea of their leaving th'eir legitimate monarch and putting faith in a usurper. The production of coal from the Waikato Company's mine is steadily increasing, The output last month was between 1600 and 1700 tons. The brigantine Clansman is now taking in a cargo of 160 tons for Oamaru. The. Auckland merchants are proposing to make arrangements to develop, a trade with the Waimate Plain?; when siettled. Sir t}eor<re Grey has been elected patron of the Auckland Cricket Club. At the Harbor Board meeting yesterday, a letter was read from Major Atkinson stating that .a dispatch had been received from the Admiralty, which stated that, looking to the existing facilities lor docking Her Majesty's ships on the Australian stations, their were not prepared to reoommend that assistance be given from the naval funds towards the construction of a new dock at Auckland with a view to the provision, of further dook aeoommodation for the squadron. NAPIER. October G. The Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society's annual show opened at Hastings to-day-, NEW PLYMOUTH. October 5. The public works contingents against Mani are making good progress with the road from Mani ro Normanhy ■ already three and a half miles of read have been formed, and no opposition has been offered by the natives. Although a road party, numbering 50 in all and unarmed, has been stationed for some time within 500 yards of Tito Kowaru's settlement, the natives have treated the road party with friendliness throughout. HAWERA. October 5. The Public Works Of&c.e was closed to-day. Mr. Fox goes into private life, and Mr. O'Connor! next in command, has gone to Wellington. FOXTON. October 6. The case against John Frederick Rocfestrow, for a breach of the Medical Practitioner's Aot, 1869, before the Resident Magistrate, ocoupied the forenoon. The defendant conducted his own case, and made a good defence. He produced letters from the Government showing that although they -were aware that he was not legally they urged him to accept office a.s a, medical referee in the insurance department and other posts*. : At the finish of defen* dant's there was considerable applause. The Bench inflicted a fine of L 25, and posts. Several witnesses refused to take expenses ('although subpoenaed for the prosecution) when it was known that the defendant had to pay, INVERCARGILL. October 5. Mr. Proctor, the astronomer, gave his first lecture in New Zealand in the Theatre Royal to-night, on " The life and death of a world." The house was well filled, although the weather was stormy. r 4'he lecturer delighted his audience by his eloquent description of shp wonders of the heavens, and h]s masterly exposition of the s»jheme >of the universe. The illuminated views were shown on a serene 24 feet square. The audience were enthusiastic in their applause, and it is evident Mr. Proctor has made a deep •impression. To-night he lectures on " The moon," and on Tuesday next op§ns j in Dunedin.