TELEGRAPHIC.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 995, 9 February 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 7. A woman named Mary Ann Long committed suicide 10-night in the police cell in a determined manner by fastening a piece of gauze netting which she wore round her neck to the bars of the door. She was in gaol for drunkenness. Mr Rolleston has arrived in Auckland and intends visiting the northern settlements. The temperance societies are combining to return members of Licensing Committees favourable to closing public houses at 10 p.m. The Manakan ironworks were started successfully, wronght-iron blooms being made from Manakan ironsaud. A fire broke out after midnight in a block of buildings in Wakefield-streot, in White’s night restaurant, and before it was suppressed it also gutted Sandal’s, butcher, unoccupied ; Bnlles, bellowmaker ; and Ladbetter, grocer. As White was missing, the police searched the premises, and subsequently found upstairs the bodies of W T hite and a woman, believed to be Mrs O’Neil, recently convicted of larceny. It is rnmonred that White has been drinking. The bodies presented a dreadful spectacle. The insurance is—Bnlies’s building, South British, £2OO. Ladbetter’s building, £2OO, Colonial; stock, £IOO. Sandal’s building is said to be insured in the National and Colonial; amount unknown. The loss is £IOOO. WELLINGTON, Feb 7.

The revenue for the colony for last month amounted to £123,043, Dunedin heading the list with £35,722 ; Auckland next with £23,203; and Wellington, £21,499. The total for the corresponding month of last year was £129,926. The beer duty last month was £6227, and for the corresponding month, 1882, £54618. The total number of Libraries that have made application for subsidy is 355, the total incomes being £22,923 13s lid. A grant of £6OOO affords a subsidy of 5s 2189 d in the pound to each Library. It is understood' that Mr John Knowles, Under-Secretary for Public Works for the colony, has applied and received permission to retire on his pension, on the ground of ill-health. Mr Knowles has been in the service for 43 years. Nothing has yet been done as to appointing his successor. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 7. C. H. Samuels, the prisoner injured at Lyttelton yesterday, died in the evening. At the inquest a verdict, of accidental death was returned. Mr Allwright has been nominated by Government to the seat on the Lyttelton Harbour Board formerly held by the Hon. E. Richardson, A difficulty has arisen between the medical and surgical staff of the Hospital about the respective positions of members of the staff. The Hospital Board have appointed a committee to try and arrange the difficulty satisfactorily. DUNEDIN, Feb. 7. The Union Company’s steamship Tarawera sailed to-day on a ten days’ pleasure trip to the West Coast Sounds. There were so many applicants for

passages that next year the Company will arrange two trips. Amongst the passengers hy the Tarawera are persons from all parts of the colony, and some Home and Victorian tourists. The former include Lord J. G. Lennox and Mr Watney, M.P.; the latter Sir A. Miehie and Professor Strong. The allotment of shares in the Dunedin and Suburban Tramway Company has taken place to the number of 98,220 out of 100,000 offered to the public. A strong local directory has been formed.

The City Council are taking steps to give His Excellency the Governor a suitable reception.

It is proposed to open the Mornington wire tramway line for traffic on the 22nd inst. This is the second of these lines here, the other running to Roslyn. Both Mornington and Roslyn are suburbs at the top of steep hills, and an endless wire, worked by steam engines, draws the cars. The Roslyn line is a single one, and travels;at five and a half miles an hour; ljftr4he Mornington one is double, and will travel at seven miles an hour. Both suburbs are about a mile distant from the centre of the city. A rather singular resurrection is now being carried on amongst the Chinese. It seems that the friends of all the Celestials who come to this colony from one of the Canton provinces, and who died here, have raised a fund to depart to the burial places of their ancestors the bones of the defunct. A society here has change of the operations. They employ resurrectionists, who are not only in Dunedin and throughout j Otago, but over the whole colony, f disinterring (ho natives of this par-j • tieular province. In Dunedin 3£r“** bodies have been raised. A special storehouse for the bodies has been built near Dnnedin, and a considerable number now Ho there, awaiting shipment to China. Each coffin is properly labelled with the name of its inmate, so that no confusion shall arise, and this has been rendered the 'easier, as a full record is kept by some leading Chinese of everyone of their countrymen buried. Rather a quandary arose over the remains of one individual, which had gone to the professor of anatomy at the local University. However, the comforting fiction that the University was a barbarian burial-place satisfied the inquiring friends, and certain bones were duly produced, which were accepted, on the word of the professor, as those of the particular deceased.