TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 29 October 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PKESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. October §B. Fresh by-laws and regulations under which the Ashburton, Waitaki, and Rakaia bridges will be opened for ordinary traffic are published in the Gazette. The Government have offered the promoters of the Wellington-Foxton Railway Company to hand over the whole of the work already done on the Wadestown section, including survey, levelling, cuttings, earthwork?}, tuqqplliiig,. culverts, sc. also rails, iron bridge, and rolling stock already procured for this line and now in hand; also the land acquired;from private owners for the line to pass through ; also to complete the survey of the line to Foxton, and to acquire for the promoters the land needed for the passage of the line beyond a point to which it has been secured ; also to accord them permission to deposit in the bay between Pipitea and Kaivvarra the spoil earth excavated from the various cuttings, and, grant them a certain of lapd thus reclaimed. All this tq be given free of expense, but subject to. a guarantee that the promoters will actually carry out their part of the arrangements and complete the line as proposed from Wellington to Fulton. The question of a Government guarantee p,f a certain percentage on the post of the work and of the application of funds received from the sale of land along the route of railway to recoup its cost, or rather to purchase it on behalf of the Government, being left to Parliament to cqr^jdpr. 4- proplairtatiqn in the Gazette extends the Maori Prisoners Act, 1880, for three months. DUNEDIK October 29. At the City Police Court, Henry Schemensky was charged with stealing a large quantity of wearing apparel from the ship Durham, a portion of the articles were found at his dwelling. He was remanded for a week. CHRISTCHURCH. October 29. • The entries for the Canterbury Pastoral and Agricultural Show will close tomorrow. During September, 115- vessels aggregating 25,022 tons entered Lyttelton, comprising 4-4 foreign, 4 intergolonial, and coastwise. . At the Court, John Chute Neligan, alias,' John Walsh, was cotnmitted for trial for making a false declara-r tion for the purpose of obtaining money by one John Walsh in the Post Office Savings Bank. When arrested a number of pieces of paper were found in prisoner's possession. When put together they proved to be a deposit receipt, which he had obtained possession of instead of the real John Walsh. WANGANUI. October 29. The Agricultural Show.held yesterday, was the most successful ever halct in Wanganui. The exhibits were unusually numerous, and the attendance excellent. AUCKLAND. October 29, The first qf a qerie§ qf riije Egatphes t,Q test thg relative merits of the; existing sights and target?, compared with Stall's system, white sights and black j targets, held at rifle range yesterday, jq favor of the ] Arrived —Glenlora, with 30 passengers from London, 82 days from port ito port. '

27 n entries have yet been received by the Local secretary, of wool exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition.