TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 March 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

•» [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [PBS PBESS ASSOCIATION.] W^lmngton, March 8. The Railway Commission 1 commenced the regular sitting's to-day. Mr Curtis, of Nelson was elected chairman. It has been decided that their meetings shall not be opemto^ the ;j|ttbl|c. j iM-V Mdw&ri Downey^ was -appointed secretary, and Mr ajitcheil shorthand reporter. The Oorunaissioners, after concluding their sittings here, will yisjfc the several parts of t^e Colony, *•• ~ | Match 9. At the ponfergßcp of b,gsdg of Insur« ftflce Companies" brein^j held herei-rhf

business is private, but affects insurance matters generally. His Excellency visits Napier next week, and will be pjene&S at the races there. TiMAßtf, March 5. Mosley, the antr-Ouipi^uy lecturer, was remanded to^hmstohurch on a charge of obtaining three shillings from a tailor by false pretences. At the District oourt, Frederick Arthur Sims, formerly wholesale merchant, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for larceny. The prisoner had sold goods out of bond which ho had previously conveyed to the National Bank, and, acting on the advice of his friends, refused to hand the proceeds over to the bank manager. He received an excellent character from a number of merchants, including the Mayor of Timaru, some of whom had known him 19 years, C^eistchttbch, March' 9' An attempt was made at 3 o'clock yesterday morning to burn down Man Chester Bros, store, at Waimate. The perpetrators are unknown. A little girl named Elizabeth Gilpin, three and a-half years old, when getting into a train at Burnham yesterday with her parents, fell between the platform and carriage. The train moved on at the moment, and before the child could be rescued her left arm was smashed to pieces, and she sustained compound fracture of the left foot. When brought to the hospital her arm was amputated immediately below the shoulder. The little sufferer is doing fairly well. At the rifle camp, the nineteenth match being completed, the winners are Somerville, 63; Purnell, 55 -, Fenton, 50; Skinner, 50 ; Gordon, 50; Paynler, 47 j Hutchison, 46; Captain Wilson, 46; and H. Dixon, 46. The winner^ of tbe eighteenth match are Paynter, |4 f Fpnton, 44 j Parnell, 89 ; Somerville, 36 ; Gordon, 34; Skinner, 28; Other scores are Hunter, 25; France; 25; Dixon, 11 This completes the meeting, excepting the cavalry tournament to-morrow, Gisbobne, March 9. In the case of alleged forgery against Ward, solicitor, still oeltfpies the Court, and is likely to last for lome time. ' ;