SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 13 July 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

TO THE » MAILT MINISTERS AND THE MINING INTERESTS. IMi-AUI!ANOEMENT 01' PORTFOLIOS. (From our Wellington Correspondent.) Monday Night. A deputation of Goldfields Members waited on the Premier-this afternoon, to urge the necessity of increased Ministerial attention being devoted to goldfield matters. The Premier, in reply l ', admitted that mining affairs had not hitherto received quite a fair share of attention, but explained that it had been intended to appoint an eighth Minister, but in the present financial position of the colony that could not bo done. He intimated that a ve-arrangemont of Ministerial portfolios will be made at the end of the session, so that the Minister who held the portfolio of Mines might be able to devote more time and attention to the subject than had been hitherto possible. It would

not be practicable for one Minister tb hold the Mines’ portfolio, solely. ,

ESCAPE FROM TRAINING SCHOOL. Auckland, Monday.

Five lads bolted from Kohimarama Training bchool, but were captured by the police.

ACCIDENT TO A PRIEST. Auckland, Monday

Father Chastagon, of Pnkikobe, mot with a severe accident by In's horse bolting and breaking the priest’s collar bone. NEW GOLD MINENapier, Monday. A company of Napier capitalists has been formed to work Mob aka quartz reefs, but no shares are offered to the public. A parcel of stone taken from the reef with every precaution against “salting ” was crushed at the Thames battery as a tost, and gave at the rate of three to four ounces to the ton, although no gold was visible in the stone. A tunnel will bo put in, and if a good reef is struck, the shares now reserved will be offered to tbo public. DERELICT SHIP. Invercargill, Monday. Tbo cutter Ulra, when proceeding from Stewart’s Island to the 331 nif, picked up the ship Transit, drifting in Foveanx Straits, without a soul on board. It is supposed she bad broken away from her moorings at Dog Island during Saturday’s gale, and that the crow will be safe there CANTERBURY EXHIBITION. Christchurch, Monday. Preparations are now complete for opening the Local Industrial Exhibition to-morrow.