SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 5 October 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.

REDUCTION IN RAILWAY STAFF. TWO COMMISSIONERS DISCHARGED . Wellington, Monday. The Government intend, it is said, to farther reduce the cost of the railway staff by discharging Mr Conyers and Mr Lawson, managers of railways. Notices to this effect have been sent to them. Mr Maxwell, Inspecting Engineer of Public Works, will be Railway Commissioner for both Islands; and Mr Hanuy, traffic manager at Oamarn, will be his assistant.

SOUTHERN OPINION of TE WHITE Wellington, Friday.

A Southern journalist says that Te Whiti is the most successful representative man that this colony ever had, inasmuch as no member of Parliament ever got one hundreth part so much done for his district as To Whiti has for bis.

INHUMANITY.

Wellington, Monday

Mr Mansford, R.M., delivered judgment to-day on the charge of inhumanity brought against constables Stewart and O’Farrell, in which he summoned up exhaustively, and dismissed the case.

INQUEST. Wellington, Monday,

The coroner’s inquest on the body of John Andrews is not yet finished, hnt from evidence already adduced it is evident that while under the influence of liquor he was thrown from his hansom and killed. CHILD STRIPPERS. Wellington, Monday. A child has been decoyed and stripped of its clothes by some vagrant woman, and left almost naked to find its way home. INWARD SHIP. Auckland, Monday. N.Z. Company’s ship Waikato has arrived from London; passage 90 days. She spoke the ship Waitangi bound for Lyttelton, August 15th, with 80 passengers. WRECK NEAR WELLINGTON. Wellington, Monday.

The brigantine Hannah Bloomfield has been wrecked to-day on Inconstant Point, half a mile inside the lighthouse at the heads. She is full of water. The owners are Greenfield and Stewart, timber merchants.