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

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1922, 30 October 1884, Page 2

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

CHRISTCHUiICH, Tuesday. A meeting, attended by 300 persons, has been held at Lyttelton to consider the case of Patrick McCarthy, in custody, charged with stabbing the captain of the American berque J. H. Libby. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Weston and Joyce, his counsel, and it was decided to memorialise the Government to institute further enquiries into the case. A petition to that effect has been largely signed in Lyttelton. About half-past nine to-night a tenroomed house at Fendalton, near Christchurch, was burned clown. It belonged to Mr 11. E. Trewin, who is in Taranaki. His family weie out at the time. It was insured for £200, and the furniture for £100 in tho South British. The cause of the fire is not known. A meeting of inventors was held tonight, when it was decided to form an Inventors' Agency Company with a in pi til of £.5000, in £1 shares, for bringini_ r out the imuitions of inventors who have not capital or other means for working themselves. Letters promising support were received from inventors in all parts of the colony.

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Council of the Rifle Association, Lieutenant Colonel Lean (Ghristchuroh), Captain Wildman (Thames), and Major Butts (Wellington), were elected Vice-Presidents, and the following gentlemen were appointed on the Council to fill vacancies in the representation of several districts :— Mr Thompson, M.H.R , Auckland ; Mr W. F. Buckland, M.H.R., Wa.nkn ; Mr Lake, M.H.R., Waipa ; Captain Kuoscll, M.H.R. , East Coast ; Lieutenant Rogers, Blenheini ; Mr Lance, M.H.R., Canterbury ; Major Steward, M.H.R., Waimate ; Mr Gore, M.H.R., Dunedin ; Mr ! J. Hirst, M.U.R., Southland; Colonel Praser, M.H.R., Thames. The hon. Major Biiilie was re-elected chairman of the association for the current year, and Mr R. J. Collins was appointed treasurer. The resolution of the Executive Committee, "That the next competitive meeting be carried out under existing rules, and that the rules be revised by delegates to attend during the next shooting," was confirmed by the Council. The amount of prize money for the Wellington Jockey Club's Summer Meeting is £1465. A mau named George Wright and a horse he was driving were found drownad in the Nnmahaunga river. The trap was found bottom up, the shafts resting on Wrights leg. it is supposed that he waa stunned through the trap capsizing. A quantity of cargo from the Lastingham was sold at auction to day ; 7^ tons of corrugated iron and 14£ tons of wire realising over £100.

TIMARU, Tuesday. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual show .was opened to-day, it being quite equal to previous years, and su pel ior in some classes of exhibit*. The weather wa3 not promising. The judging of the result will be declared tomorrow.

NELSON, Tuesday. Dr. Leggatfc, captain of the artillery, while e ti gaged superintending the firing at the rifle buts this morning, was shot through the palm of the left hand, through the accidental discharge of a carbine t The injuries received were of such a nature that amputation at the wrist wa3 found necessary.

DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Mr T. L. Sheppard (ex-M.H.R.) died in the Hospital to-day. Wednesday. The Chinaman burned at Alexandra lock-up was very respectably connected at home in China, and was a splendid scholar, but a black sheep. His parents had several times sent for him to return home, but he had refused to go, and the general belief amongst his countrymen is that by some means he managed to fit some matches and iet the place on lire rather than bring disgrace on his parents. The lock-up was a tumble-down kind of a building, and it had been known that Chinese confined there had been giren cigarettes and matches by their friends. The Mornington Cable Tramway Company are completing an extension of their line, half a mile in length, at a cost of about £4500. The grade in part of it is lin 3f , which is the steepest in the world. It will be open in three weeks. The first angling competition of the' season was held on Friday. The winner was Mr S. Thomson, with 36 fish, weighing 321bs. 20z., caught in the Shag River. Messrs J. C. Miller and Richard Whelan have been awarded the Humane Society's silver medal for their rescue of the High School boys last summer from Bird Rock, off Ocean Beach, whither they had gone seafowl nesting.

We direct special attention to tfce advertisement of the Helensrillo Tin»b«r Company! which •ppean jn another cglutpn,