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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1185, 20 October 1882, Page 2

(from our own correspondent.) Napier, IS. The Local Synod is now sitting. For the convenience of the members all the desks nncl forms were taken from the Borough Council chambers, without the leave of that august body. Wiien the Council met to-night the members had to adjourn to the Town Clerk's office, where they passed a hearty vote of censure on the Synod. The application for shares in the Frozen Meat Company are several thousand in excess of the number to be allotted. Ciiristchurch, October 18. The Kaiapoi Factory Company have presented their Chairman, Mr Isaac Wilson, M.H.R,, with their industrial trophy, won at the Exhibition. TiMARtr, October 18. At the District Court to-day Judge Ward suspended the discharge of a bankrupt named I). Maloney, a tinsmith by trade, for two years, and characterised his transactions as a family swindle. Heavy rain set in this evening, it is requhed for the crops. Dunedin, October 19. At the City Court Inspector YVeldon intimated that he would not proceed with the charge of attempted suicide preferred against Jane Gray, on account of her low nervous state. She had been permitted to go to her home. The City of Bombay, which came into port with the loss of her bulwarks, having experienced a succession of heavy gales while running down her easting off the coast of Tasmania. During a terrific gale she had her main rigging carried away. CIIRISTCnUKCH, 19. To-night's Telegraph states that a well known commission agent has absconded, after comraiting extensive

forgeries. The commission agent in question, it states, is Herman Hampton, who for about four years has been carrying on business as a grain and product; merchant, in Cashel-street. Palm i :rstox North, 1 9. A cavalcade of Messrs Young and Pope's coadiing plant has just left, en route for the new line — Tauranga and the Thames, the contract for which is to commence on the Ist November. The complete staffof drivers and grooms arrived by special train from Wanganui yesterday, and the transportation was effected without a hitch, or accident. The start from here was quite a demonstration. Wellington, 19. Twenty members of the Wellington Vaval Brigade have elected to attend the l.'iiJe Meeting. Mr Worth the father of the youth who was sentenced to a month's hard labour for impropriety in the Botanic Gardens, reached Wellington from Wanganui yesterday. The object of his visit being to support the petition in favor of the release of his son, and the girl Davies. The petition was duly presented to His Excellency, the Administrators of the Government, this morning, by a deputation, consisting of Mr and Mrs Worth- His Excellency accorded the visitors a most gracious reception, and conversed with them freely on the subject. The interview lasting for upwards of an hour. He promised to announce his decision through his responsible advisers in the course of a day or two. 'I he Premier and the Colonial Secretary leave by the Stella this evening, for the Manakau and Taranaki. It is Mr Dick's intention to make a general tour of inspection in the South Island, to that in the N arth from which he has recently returned. That is to say, he will personally inspect the condition and management of the hospitals and industrial schools, and lunatic asylums. Prisons now come, of course, under the jurisdiction of Mr Conolly, as Minister of Justice.