TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 258, 9 April 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Press Telegraph Agency .) Auckland, April 8. The Peerless, fchooaer, left Kaipara for Lyttelton yesterday, with 65,000 feet of timber. The telegraph from Russell to Hokianga will be completed and opened next Wednesday. Westport, April 8. The following was the result of the races to-day;—Trial Stakes: Magenta, 1; Sandy, 2; Lilly, 3. Buller Handicap: Tommy Dodd, 1; Yatterina, 2; Magenta, 3. Six started. Five hundred people were present. Port Chalmers, April 7. No tidings yet have been received of the schooner Jessie Nichol, sent in search of the Euphrosyne. The Hon Major Atkinson, accompanied by Mr Colin Allan, immigration officer, paid a visit of inspection to the Quarantine Island to-day, and expressed great satisfaction with the accommodation and fitness of the islands as a quarantine station. April 8. Arrived—Barque Southern Cross, from Hobart Town. After discharging cargo at this port the Cross will proceed to Lyttelton, for which port she has 200 tons. Passed to northwards brig Princess Alice. Intelligence has been received by the harbormaster that two Oregon pine beams 15ft long, a boat’s chock, and some cushions of a cabin, had been picked up on the beach at Allday Bay. THIS DA YS TELEGRAMS. Wellingion, April 9. The New Zealand Times has an article upon the way in which the Hutt railway is being managed. After stating various grievances of employees, which are mainly those of long hours and insufficient pay, and want of promptitude in paying their month’s wages, it says, the safety of the people of Wellington is certainly endangered by the enormous amount of work expected from the small working staff at Pipitea. [FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, April 8. As an illustration of the failure of the education tax the Star mentions a large industrial settlement in a remote district of the province where no collector has appealed, because the residents not having sufficient children for a school have declared they will not to pay the tax, and will duck in a large pond any man asking them. Warren, a settler, who had lost £22, had placed the police on the track, and advertised rewards in the papers, announces that he has discovered his money in his own pocket where he put it.

Government are pushing forward the extension of the telegraph line to the north vigorously. The latest joke from Ohnemuri relates to the pest of flies. All the lawyers engaged in an intricate case there before Warden Campbell were compelled to abandon their tents and blankets being unaccustomed to this species of visitation. Mr Stewart, the engineer, is missing, but circumstances tend rather to show that he has run away than that he has met with any accident. His parents are in great anxiety, and his friends and the police search every vessel [from our dunedin correspondent.] Dunedin, April 8. The Southland Railway returns for March show the gross earnings to be £2996, or an increase of 63 per cent on those of the same month last year, despite the reduced tariff. Mr Richardson has inspected the Waitaki bridge. He expressed himself highly pleased with the progress and execution of the works. The contractors are confident of handing it over before the contract time. The action of the Christchurch Jockey Club re McKay is generally commended. Six men named James McDonald, John Davis, James Parsons, Robert Cupples, John Dawson, and John Thompson, started in a Government whaleboat, better known as the Government coffin, from Orepuki, in search of the ’ body of one Memphis, who was drowned a few days before. It was blowing a heavy gale at the time, and the crew were advised not to risk themselves in such a frail boat in such rough weather. They were, however, earnestly entreated by Memphis’s widow, and went. A portion of the boat was found on the beach yesterday. A search party started from Riverton this morning to go round the beach. They were all strong able men, and good swimmers. The affair has thrown a gloom over the district, as it makes nine deaths by drowning within a fortnight. At 2.58 p.m. the search party returned. Six bodies were found. It appears there were seven men in the boat, two being named John Thomson. The missing body is that of Davis. Upon the 2.30 train from Dunedin turning the curve on the Port Chalmers side of Wales’ quarry, a man and woman were seen sitting on the rails and indulging themselves with a bottle of rum. Before the train could be stopped the platform of the first carriage caught the man on the shoulder, and fortunately threw him on the right side of the rails, or he would have received severe injury. if not have met his death. The train was stopped, and the man and woman put into a carriage and conveyed to Port Chalmers, where they were given into charge. TOKOMARIRO RACES. The dead heat between Kildare and Sir Tatton for the hurdle race was run off after the handicap. In the s first round Sir Tatton fell almost in the same place as Stackpole had fallen early in the afternoon and rolled over his rider (F. White of Winton), who was picked up senseless, and remained in that condition for some hours, the doctors pronouncing him suffering from concussion of the brain. Kildare went round for the stakes. Tokomariro Club Handicap, of 75 sovs; distance, H miles —Atlas, 1; Right Bower, 2. These were the only two starters. Atlas led from the start, but at the three-quarter mile post the Bower collared him, and there ensued a most exciting race home, resulting as Judge Capstick declared it, in a dead heat, but in the opinion of the bulk of the spectators in a victory for Atlas by half a neck. Mr Coombes entered a protest on the ground of Atlas’s jockey having struck the Bower, but the stewards disallowed it. The dead heat was run off after the hack race, and won by two lengths by Atlas, who led from the start.