LATEST TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 167, 15 November 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

. [Per -Press Agency.] .... AUCKLAND. November 11. A flax dresser, named-Leathan, working at Queen’s redoubt, was struck dead by lightning while'm the open field, death being instantaneous. Fifteen cases, supposed to be tobacco, shipped to order, under the signature of iE; Notd, Melbourne, arrived by the brigantine Florinda; • No owner was.found, anil ,oo' opening the cases it. was discovered that they were filled.with sand. It is supppsed iijwl beep shipped with the object ‘of ■d^mbin^-*an' j, advaHce'from some bank in Melbourne.

NEW PLYMOUTH. November 11. At a meeting last night, at which Messrs Carrington and Kelly were present, it was resolved that, as the New Zealand Titanic Steel and Iron Company have failed in the due performance of the terms and conditions of the lease granted to them, it is desired that the Government be at once urged to demand payment of the penalties, and if not paid to cancel the lease, tt was also decided to forward copies of tills resolution to "Wellington. PICTON. . . ...

; November 11. Woodgate was brought up on remand charged with killing his three children. His niece Susan deposed to children by him—th * first was horn dead, and the second was heard to cry. Woodgate alone delivered her. lie said, both before and after the birth, that ho ’w°u I M__smother it. He threatened to shuMt ’iter if she told anyone, and she-never saw the child'afterwards. The other niece has not yet been examined. The prisoner, was again remanded -till icxt Saturday. He cohabited with hj s brother’s widow for years. CHRISTCHURCH. November 11. At a meeting of the delegates of the various Jockey Clubs, held this morning, it was resolved —Fi st, that the Victorian rules relating to weights and ages, should he adopted by the whole of the New Zealand Jockey Clubs, and that the latter be requested to agree to tins. That all horses must ■ run in bona fide owner’s names, under a penalty of disqualification, unless they be registered according to Jockey Club rules. /-Third—That it is desirable to have a New Zealand Jockey Club, which shill frame rules, and,make a scale of weights to be used by all running under its rules, and lliat'suclfcinb be a final tribunal to decide an} r questions' referred to it by the local clubs. Fourth— ’ That the New Zealand Jockey Club shall consist of not more than three members from each local club, and that at least one steward at every -meeting running under the New-Zealand Club rules must be a member of the club, and that the club shall,, os far as possible, at the beginning of the year," fix the dates of all meetings in the colony. November 14. Steps are being taken to present Mr Uollsston, the late Superintendent, with a testimonial as a mark of apprecialim of his services as a public man. Subscriptions are limited to five pounds each. It is expected that over a thousand pounds will be raised. WELLINGTON. November 14. quantity of Government telegraphic'j\vork since the close of the session, (in consequence it is supposed of Abolition) together with some evening papers largely availing themselves of the five hundred words concession, have led to the wires on the main lines being clogged with work, press and private messages a ike being delayed to a very unusual degree, especially during business hours. DUNEDIN.

November 11. The last siding of the Synod was held yesi onlay. A motion recommending the reduction of the fee for Bishop’s marriage licenses was negatived. A motion recommending u tic General Synod to g’rant greater latitude to the clergy to prevent a repetition of prayers and creeds where more than one service is performed, was lost on the division of orders. -Much sympathy was expressed with the object, Imt it was considered und ‘suable for the liturgy to he interfered with by c jionial authority. 'November 14. A purse of a liun-’re I sovs. was pres intad by the merchants of Dunedin to Captain Gibb, of the ship Thonnsina' McLellar, with ■ a complimentary address, for the m inner in which I e met the danger in which his vessel was placed by spontaneous combustion o ' c > 1, when ly his exertions, he reduced the loss to a'minimum. MELBOURNE. Novernbea 10. The English Eleven telegraph that tiny ixpict to win all their matches.'-' November 11. It is rumoured' that Newrainster has been poisoned by antimony. SYDNEY. November 10. The Zea’andia arrived at daylight this, morning. - A public reception is to be given to Trickett to-night. ■ o