TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 23 November 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

{per press association.) DUNEDIN. November 23. The amount of personal feeling indulged in in the present Mayoral contest has never been equalled in Dunedin before. The election promises to be very, close and. exciting. Mr.-Mallard has been presented with a testimonial and 170 sovereigns. CHRISTCHURCH. November 22. A number of pure merino and stud rams, bred by W. A. Kermode, of Tasmania, were sold by auction to-day. The highest price fetched was 14 guineas, at which most of them were sold. The ewes fetched 10 guineas each. November 23.

Madame Lottie Wilmot having taken the Theatre Royal for Sunday evening Freethought lectures, the City Council last night expressed strong disapproval of the Theatre being used for Sunday entertainments, and regrets that it has no power to interfere.

A trout weighing 21 lbs was caught in the river Avon yesterday. The weather is very hot and dry. The crops look splendid. Dozens of cases of window smashing have recently occurred in Christchurch. Last night two young men named John Hobberfield and William Smith, were caught in the. act, and this morning ordered to pay Lll 15s.

AUCKLAND. November 22. Richard J. Owen was arrested to-day by Detective Jeffrey at Helensville, and brought down to Auckland on a charge of incendiarism. It will be remembered that he was sleeping alone in the house of W. Kibble Edwards, which was burnt down on the night of the 14th, on Mount Eden road. It was insured in the New Zealand Company for L 250. November 23. At Te Aroha, gold has been discovered in three other claims on the line of the reef. Nine hundred miners' rights have already been issued. There is no sign of H.M.S. Da.nae. Hundreds were turned away from Coles' Circus last night. It leaves for Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, per Rotomahana, on Friday.

NEW PLYMOUTH. November 22. The Hon. Mr. Bryce and the Hon. Mr. Rolleston had a narrow escape from being killed on Sunday whilst being driven from the camp to Opunake in the A.C. express. On descending the hill before coming to the Waitalii river the break gave way, and the express went down the hill with a run into the river. Mr. Rolleston was thrown amongst the horses, and Mr. Bryce got somehow under the trap into the water. Fortunately the gentlemen were not injured, and finding the spokes of the wheels were broken, Messrs. Rolleston and Bryce procured horses from the camp and proceeded on their journey. GRAHAMS.TGWN. November 23.

There is great exoitement anent the Te Aroha goldfields, and large numbers of miners are leaving here to be present at the opening on Thursday. About 400 are now on the ground, and 120 went up by steamer this morning. A quarter share in the prospectors' claim was sold yesterday for LBO. At a meeting of the owners of the prospecting claim liere last night, it was decided to form a company of 12,000 at LI per share, and place 6000 shares in the market at 7s 6d per share, 6s to go to the promoters and is Gd to the credit of the company. Two thousand shares are allotted to the Thames and 400 to Auckland and Waikato. Immediately after the meeting the Thames shares went off like wild-fire, all being taken up last night with the exception of 75. It is expected that there will be lively scenes on the opening day.

GISRORNE. November 22. Puhiteri Ahunoko, an intelligent Maori chief of the district, in a letter to the Poverty Buy Herald, warns the Europeans that Te ICooti is inviting natives to visit him under the pretence of curing their ailments, but the real object Te Kooti has in view is to cause an insurrection among the natives against the Europeans,

TIMARTJ. November 22. Owing to the Albury line, which already extends 25 miles inland, not being extended to Fairlie Creek, 13 miles further, a majority of the_ runholders and farmers in the Mackenzie Country have decided to cart wool direct into Timaru. The formation of the extension, with the exception of one cutting, was completed some time past. It is estimated that 13,000 bales of wool will come from this j district, and in the season the Albury line I has, so far, been the best paying one in , the Colony. I The weather is very hot, and rain is again wanted, November 23. Some astonishing revelations were m ide in the case Bassett v. Bassett, heard before the Resident Magistrate to-day. The defendant, who was formerly a boarding-house-keeper, objected to contribute towards the maintenance of his wife, from whom he is now living apart, on the ground that he had proved his wife to be inconstant. Tiie magistrate held that, even if a ; wife acts in an unwifely manner, her husbaud must assist in supporting her, and he made an order for 10s per week. IN YERC ARGILL. November 22. At the Resident Magistrate's Court today, a respectably-dressed we'l-connected woman named Catherine Wood, was committed for trial for stealing jewellery to the value of L 25 from a suburban hotel. She was arrested at Lyttelton the other day.