TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1096, 5 June 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

» (from our own correspondents.) Christchurcii, June 2. Williams, a clerk in the Railway goods-shed department, lias been comhiitted for trial on three charges of embezzling money. The frauds were committed during the last fe^ weeks, and the money taken amounted to a heavy sum. St. Alban's district school has been closed till further notice, owing to a serious outbreak of diphtheria in the district. The borough school has been closed by the Board of Health, who have ordered all Sunday schools to be discon- j tinued. The Health Officers also advise the residents, for the present, to avoid visiting one another as much as i they possibly can. In one family three deaths occurred in two days. The attendance at the Exhibition today 146,000 (?). Cheap fares on the railways are advertised from sth to 24th June, in connection with the Exhibition. Auckland, 2. Patrick O'Hera, ex-detective, Auckland, petitions the Minister of Justice in the case of his son, James, who was fined by the Justices for assault on a Chinaman. A score of persons, it is stated, can pro\ can alabi. The boy at the time of the assault alleged by witnesses was attending the funeral of the late Patrick Meehan. Dunedin, 2. A new boat for the Union Company was launched to .day, at Port Chalmers, were she has been put togpther. She I is built entirely of steel, and was turned out of Hinz Brothers' yard. She was named Waibi, by Mrs George M'Lean, and is intended for the river trade at Fiji, where she will act as feeder to the company's boats trading between Fiji and this Colony, Invercargill, I. A strange discovery has been made at some sand-hills, near Waikewa

Beach. Five clays ago two gentlemen living in the locality discovered some skeletons th?t had been laid bare by the recent winds. Some are nearly perfect, while others are mixed up in a chaotic mass of heads, hands, feet ' arms, and legs. It must have been many*years since the ground was filled ■with its ghastly occupants. ItJJis presumed that the remains are those of Maoris. Te Whiti and Tohu, who' have been here for a clay or. two, left this morning for Lake VVakatipu. < , CimisTcnußcn, 4. A man named Ralph Heading was working a circular saw at Sydenham, this morning, when a portion of the saw flew oft" and struck him on the head, cleaving it open from crown to chin. Death was instantaneous. Wlllington, 4. It is understood here that the murderer, Hiroki, has confessed his guilt A meeting of the Canterbury and Westland members was held this day, to consider the interests of those districts in relation, to" the expected new loan. Twenty-five were present, and after discussion it was resolved that a committee should be appointed to watch over the interests 6f the two districts, to consider what works were desirable, including the railway across the Island, and to report within a week. Fifteen members representing the goldh'elds districts met at the Parliamentary buildings this morning, to consider various matters in connection with laNvs relating to goldfields, The following committee was appointed to draw up a report dealing with the question of the supply of diamond drills, rock-boring apparatus, reduction of taxation, Chinese immigration: — Seddon, Pyke, Delatour, Sheehan, FitzGerald, Cadinan, and % J- E. Brown. Another meeting will be held on Monday next, to consider the interim report of the committee. Judgment was given to-day by the Appeal Court in a test case stated to the Judges, by consent of the AttorneyGeneral and the Wellington City ( orporation, re the right of the latter to carry out certain work, called Te Iro reclamation. Judgment was given for defendants, so that the reclamation will be at once commenced. H.M.S. Nelson last night gave an exhibition of electrict lighting apparatus carried by her. The harbor was lighted up most beautifully over its whole extent. The fog-horn was also sounded. It is said to be audible for a distance of thirty miles.