TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBBRSrONDENTS). Nasieb, June 12. Fine weather at length set in, and the country is now almost dry. The railway line is not yet fit for resumption of traffic, and probably it will be a week before the trains can run through. A man named Martin O’Shannessy, was w ashed off his horse and drowned whilst driving cattle to a place of safety on Friday last during the flood. The Napier beach presented a remarkable sight on Saturday, being strewn with huge logs of wood, sheep, garden produce, a few calves, and debris of all kinds. Hundreds of people were employed all day in skinning carcases, collecting wood, etc., and the beach was lined with spectators. Wellington, June 12. A caucus of East Coast metnben was held on Saturday. Mr Sutton was voted to the chair. It was resolved “ That it is absolutely necessary that there should be combined action to secure fair consideration of claims of their districts in reference to public works, and that the action already taken by Auckland, Otago, and Canterbury members for a division amongst them of any moneys derivable from the proposed loan makes it imperative that Hawke’s Bay and East Coast districts should combine.” It w'as also resolved to hold further meetings as occasion requires, and that definite action be deferred till the Government movements are made known. Members will interview the Government shortly. New Plymouth, June 12. At a meeting of the Iron Company on Friday night, directors were elected. Mr Ritso, late of Canterbury, being one of them. It was proposed to put the works in order, and to get a competent manager as soon as possible so as to carry on operations. Invercargill, June 12. The bar of Watson’s Hotel was entered last night and tho desk containing nearly £6O was stolen. Entrance was effected from the back door of the hotel. Owing to fine weather cropping up farming operations aro in a forward state throughout the country districts. The season has been unusually dry, and water in some of the high country would be beneficial. Chbistchubch, June 12. The attendance at the Exhibition up to Saturday, numbered 158,000. The new Catholic Convent was solemnly blessed by Bishop Redwood yesterday. There was a crowded attendance at the service connected therewith, and the collection amounted to £5OO. Dunedin, June 12. Te Whiti and Tohu visited a Maori Kainga on Saturday, and were received cordially by the Natives. Subsequently Charles Wesley, the well known chief, took them severely to task for their past conduct. Te Whiti made no reply, but Tohu said he and Te Whiti were dead to all intents and purposes, and nothing said to them now could be of any avail. They did not seem discontented with the result of their visit. Friday's concert netted nearly £lOO for the Timaru Relief Fund. The barque Mataura, with 9760 ounces of gold, 3884 frozen sheep, 27 kegs of butter, 6 cases of beef, and other cargo sailed for London to-day.

A writer in Vanity Fair says : —“ The silly stuff talked about the increase of international affection and national morality which would follow the construction of the Channel tunnel nauseates me. Amid the bleating of the pulpits and the winking sanctimony of the City, I like to think of Mr Ruskin’s strong, coarse words—‘ The precise amount of morality involved in the construction of railways is simply this ; that if the English engineers, after the experience gained at Mount Oenis, found they could drive a railway to hell, they would set about the work at once, and stop church building all over the country to avoid decreasing the dividends.’ This is plain English—very plain—but it is better than Sir W. Wat kin’s godly twaddle. From the way Watkin talks about love anyone would think the French were a nation of frozen-out gardeners whom he wanted to quarter on the rates.”

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