LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 310, 6 April 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

<3 [PISft VS.KSH AGKNCV.] CHfiIBTCIIUItCH. April 5. Beceipts of the Canterbury Board of Edueatioa i'or 1877 were £75,100 ; expenditure, £58.963. A wooished on New Zealand and Australian Land Company’s run, Ralcaia district, was clesiroj'ed by lire yesterday, contained grass seed wful.ii £3OOO ; grain, £-2000 ; totaidamages,£7,sUo- Partially insurers At a meeting of the P hi lisop Ideal institute, Dr Von liaast said that a gigantic kitchen midden, 20 miles long, and 300 or 401) yards wide, exists in the colony, and some day lie intended to explore it, with a view to obtaining information of the antiquity ox man in Mew Zealand. DUNEDIN. April 5. The census returns for Dunedin and suburban municipalities are at follows :—• Dunedin—Males, 11,605 ; females, 10,888; total, 22,493. I’oslyn Males, 1,098 ; females, 1,149 ; total, 2,247. Maori Hill —Males, 186 ; females, 157 : total, 343. St KiJcia and South Dunedin—Males, 1,081; females, 1,228. Caversham —Males,l,7Bo; females, 1,662 ; totai, 3,442. ■ It will be discussed al the next Court of Appeal whether the question of the Tippling Act of George the Second is law in the colony. Sir John Goode is expected to arrive at Dunedin to-morrow night. ■ « ■ WANGANUI. * : (from oca ows ookrksponoent.) By the way, that was a most peculiar accident which occurred on Tuesday last, when the train was crossing the railway bridge. A gentleman named Hart, the commercial representative of Messrs Guthrie and Larnach, fell or jumped from one of the carriages, and escaping death by being drawn un 'or tm- '.ram, by being smashed against the Don of tl;; bii ! ry, or bv being drowned or killed by bis ".ail of fifty feet or over to d.? \ . tor. w& • nlnckdy brought to land by two ’clh.*w pa;. : ngmvi. apparently little *nr v.o/.-i, b.yood a Aw contusions and a simel: to ni.~-t-m. JIo was under (reati.’~nt at ..re ui of Ay and when in a perturued stale of inund froih,|itis said, brooding over the contents of a telegram received recently, he made a

most determined attempt at self-destruc-tion, t>y driving^-'a skewer a number of limes into liis side, in the region of the .heart. It is said-.now that the first affair ■was by no means accidental. The poor fellow is in a critical state, and his mind is <quite unhinged. The doctor says the -skewer lias reached the heart. A wife und two children are somewhere south.

Ilollotoay's Pills. —Nervous Debility.— Persons who feel weak, low, and nervous .may roast assured some serious ailment is looming in the distance against which instant action should be taken. Holloway’s Pills present the ready means of •exciting energetic action on the liver, liberating accumulated bile, and lifting at once a load from tfie spirits and expelling =a poison from,the body’. This simple and natural method of remedying the first tendency to diseast gives present ease and ■ensures future safety. The pale, and all •those who are losing‘flesh, should try these Pills, which are especially useful when the •digestive or-other functions are imperfectly -performed and demand immediate correction, or in after years "neither uiind nor body will-be well'developed. Strangers -and country settlers coming •to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing .Establishment in the district. I’. A. Adams’ Cardigan House,- offers special advantages that can be mot with nowhere else in the district. Ha keeps the largest and best assorted •stock.of every description of drapery, goods, -imported direct—-and from the best ■colonial houses ; which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, ami having thorough .knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling ■quality at puces that cannot be improved •on by any’ -other house in New, Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as -well served as the best judges, tha terms being not •cash, without rebate or abatement of any Idnii. , Note the Address—E. A . Adams ‘ Cardigan, House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle.— advt .