TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.-—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1856, 29 May 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.-— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WANGA.NUI. Tuesday. Sir W. Fox h.ia resigned his position on the Education Board as he is leaving the colony shortly.

GISBORNE, Wednesday. Mr Locke addressed a public meeting on Monday night, and Mr Gannon last niglit. There was a large attendance, and a vote of tlunks was passed by a large majority to Mr Locke, and a vote of confidence in Mr Gannon almost unanimously. Mr Locke promises an independent support to the Ministry next session, and would ghe Government preemption a chance for a few yeais in the King country, but lie considered it totally inapplicable here. Mr Gannon goes in for lice tiade in native lands all over the island, under ceitain safeguards. He did not absolutely favour any party, but promised to support Grey, especially his policy as regards native land. Mr Rees addressed a meeting at Onriond oil Monday night, and received a vote of confidence.

NAPIER, Tuesday. G 1 cat complaints are mado of the scarcity of pheasants and quail this year. The wekas, which suck the eggs, have become very numerous during the List thee years, and are blamed for the scarcity.

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Two seamen belonging to tho Victory wore fined JLS and £10 for assaulting the chief engineer of that steamer. Wednesday. The Aoranai leaves for London to-mor-row. She takes 9000 carcases of frozen mutton hoin here, and 168 pas&enpeis from all ports. The enquiry into the circumstances connected with the dpstiuction of S. John's Church by fire will not take place until the sth prox. The prospectus of a new evening paper called the Evening Press has been issued hero.

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Three specimens of supposed Californian salmon, caught m the Waimakiriri, are to he sent Home packed in a case, by the Aorangi, so that an authoritative statement as to the biicccss of the acclimatising of salmon may be obtained. Wednesday. At the quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Messis Ghrystal and Mears weie appointed delegates to attend tl c Conference of Chambers to be held in Wellington next month. The president, in his address, mentioned that about a quarter of a million has been spent on buildings in Christen I'reh during the last three years.

DUNBDIN, Tuesday. The fire lias not yet been got in the Kaitangata Coal Mine, but it id hoped that woik may be resumed within two or three days. There will be no hunting here this year, as a pack of hounds cannot be obtained. A resident of the Arrow district has received a letter from Mr Fergus, M.H.R., who states that he will be at his post when the session opens. There has been a rumour that he intended resigning. Mr Robert Wilson, who proceeds to England per Aorangi, was entertained at a banquet last night.

Wednesday. The case of Mrs Agnes Campbell v. Win. Kennedy (of New York), Basil Sievwright (of Diuiedin), Charles Head, and two other nominal defendants, will shortly be before the courts. It appears that on the sale of the Arcade property, last year, Daniel Campbell left the colony. Plaintiff alleges that she signed a deed of sale under Mr Sievwright's adiicc, not knowing he was acting for Kennedy, and that she never received any part of the £12,000 alleged to have been paid as purchase money ; that the deed was fictitious, and also the mort-. gages executed by Sievwrighs's advice ' that she held the land mentioned by Reid on SievwrißUt's advioe, in order to protect the same from lier husband's creditors, and dirt so on advice that it was not a bona fide sale, but that whenever required Kennedy would transfer the land for a nominal conaideiation, but he had since refused to do so. Two commissions have been issued for taking evidence in America, whither Mr Denniston has gone in plaintiffs interest. A telegram was received by the police to-day from Waihemo, stating that a ploughman employed at Pareora station was killed yesterday afternoon by the dray he was driving falling on him. He was on his way to Gladbrook, and in crossing a creek at the Taieri Lakes station the accident happened. A meeting of the creditors of Austin Lewis and Co. was held to-day. The total unsecured liabilities were shown to j be £13,623 lls lid, and the realisable assets are £10,497 13s lOd. The National Bank i§ the largest creditor, holding an unsecured liability of £7,444 lls lid. It als) holds a liability, secured by bills and warrants, of £10,669 Is 6d.

NELSON, Wednesday. The Colonist's Collingwood correspondent telegraphs that the Golden Ridge Company have cut a reef in the up-rise. It is 40 feet, and they are now driving from the winze and also from the up-rise, in, 'order to connect, as the air is very foul, The stone is very rjtoh, qhwfag .ftwpl gold «U ftywuft. - s '