TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1198, 22 November 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

— (FROM OUR OWN CORXvBSPOITDBNT.) OubISTCHURr:H 20. A depuation from the Railway League waited on fc&e Commissioners, and questioned thntn f.bout their j ability to take evidewco o.i the subject j of a line to the West Coa.vt. In vepiy, ! Dr Polif n said nothing wua clearer ; from tho tprms of theCojiitiiis>;'!» flan that tlifcy were confined to tlr_ ut.'in : trunk line northwards. A lino frriu Amberley to Bnmnerton could havrjiy j be called such an extension, but iv. tiin j , Beiise oi' a doflection of the trunk hna ■to the westward of the nudn range, tli'. 1 Oom mission might consider and re- ! port vii what the League presented. ' The Mayor and others expressed the j opinion that the mission of the leaguers j was useless. The league had been led I Ito believe by the : iuister for Public I | Works that the Commission had power jto consider the West Coast route. Tho J attitude of the Commission was generally expected, and little surprise is felt \ at their reports to the Leagues. f jma«u, November 21. Mr J. Jackson was to-day elected ! Mayor of Titnaru unopposed j The Minister of Lands returned to | i town to-n-ght after an extensive tour | through the back country. He | ■ expnrs^es himself well pleased with j i what he has seen. | DrNEDix, 20. The Minister for Public Works went South to-day. he Kotomahna repairs are expected • to be completed to-night. Messrs >. H. WQSsandJ. B. Thomson, both memberauof the City Council j and the former an ex mayor, weie j nominated for the mayoralty to-day. Messrs Dalgetty and Co. have received a cable trom London, dated 17th met., to the effect that the market for frozen mutton has advanced and the meat is now at 7d per lb. for best quality. Nov. 21. The following are mentioned as candidates for the Peninsula, Messrs Larnach, Cuften, B. Cargill, A. G. j Burns, Donnelly and G. M'Bride (Mayor of South Dnnedin). The Gladstoue Company, at Macetown sent down a 200oz. cake for a fortnight's crushing. [ Ashburton, '21. Mr Donald Williamson has been re-elected Mayor o£ Ashburton without opposition. The dedication of the new Roman Catholic Church, announced to take place on the tenth December. Bighop Redwood will conduetthe ceremony. The otorua with the carbine champion and the Thames and Auckland representatives arrived at midnight. A dinner was held immedrately after--1 wards. There is great dissatisfaction among the men at their treatment at Dunedin. A beautiful Aurora Australis was visible here last night BLtNHEIM, 20. Mr ". Hodgson, M. H. ; '., ia Mayor of Blenheim for the ensuing year. New Plymouth, 21. Mr William Bayley, the late Mayor, was returned as Mayor to-day, without opposition. Wellington, 21. At a meeting of the Executive Council, which was held at Government fiouse to-day, the case of the Taranaki murderer, Antonio Schneely, was further carefully considered. It was ultimately decided to commute the sentence of death to penal servitude for life, an order was duly made accordingly. Piazza Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, coucludes a letter written to a Kutt resident on the comet now visible, with the following words: — " Who can say whether it may not be back again from space in a few months and then not merely to graze close past, but actually fall into the sun, which is so evidently increasing its hold upon it at every revolution, wherefore we may be near upon the time for witnessing what effects will be produced when such an event takes place in the solar system, as astronomers have hitherto only distantly speculated on, and no mortal eye is known to have ever beheld, but we must be calp^ patient, philosophical,

judicial, for the calculations involved are excessively tedious and difficult when much accuracy is required.