TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1241, 5 March 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PROM OUR OV[& CORRESPONDENT.) The accounts^ from the country of the effects of yesterday's north-wester are to the effect that a large quantity of grain is lost to the value of several thousand pounds. It is said that in some parts, after the gale, on resumption of reaping it was found that the straw was quite brittle, breaking in the binders. In some places there is nothing but straw left Duneoin, 2. The Governor visited the asylum and other public institutions to-day. To-morrow he go«s to Invercargill, and thence to Queenstown, but afterwards his movements are not decided on. Westport, 2. Mrs Gramatica and John Davidson still remain in gaol here. Auckland, 2. The trade dispute between the Institute of Arcitects and the builders is finally settled, and an agreement signed. Mr Pond, tlie Government analyst, states that three or four supposed diamonds from Raglan are quartz crystals. The survey of Kawhca township is completed. A conflict of authority has arisen at Pukekohe between the railway and the postal and telegraph departments. The railway department attempted' to bust ; the postmaster and telegraphist who occupies a part of the station buildings, while that oiKcial fortified it, and it is presumed in consequence of orders from head quarters refused to cvacUate. The door of the telegraph office was bfokoii" open forcibly • »at 2 o'clock by the railway lumpers, by orders of the station-master,' i and- an attempt has been made to. .take, possession of tho instruments, &i^e^^ withqnfcj success, arid ths matter remains in dispute between ttic railway and telegraph departments. The station-muster is believed to be acting under instructions < from Mr A. Q. M'Donald, district railway manager. j The lately found diamonds have been inspected by hundreds of people. Some of the diamonds are also exhibited with a portion of the outside crust not pulverised, but showing the volcanic action. Wellington, 3. It is probable that Sir Win. Fox will be a candidate for tho Inangahua seat in the House of Representatives, should Mr Weston carry put his intention of resigning. • It is understood that Parliament will probably meet for the despatch of business on Friday, the Ist June, if the alterations .and additions to tho Parliamentary buildings can be completed in time. If this should proye impracticable, then Parliament will meet as soon as possible .after- that date. ■ - ..•■>.• Major Atkinson will leave Wellington either on Friday next Or on tho following Monday for the South, with the object of dvlivering public speeches or lectures on political questions in Dunedin, Christchurch, Oamaru, and Invercargill, also at other places if he deems it advisable. He will deliver two speeches in each town. After his. return North, he will address public meetings in Auckland and Wellington. Wangantji, 2. A coroner's inquest was held to-day en the body of the half-caste child found on the beach on Tuesday last. The evidence showed that the mother, Phceebo Veitch, had taken the child out on Monday afternoon last stating that an aunt was going to take ifc up country by that afternoon train, and that on her return she stated thai; the child had gone away accordingly and that a lady at Christchurch was going to adopt it, and .that the mother was never to soe it again. When arrested by the police the mother said she took the child for a walk on the wharf on Monday night, 'and it fell overboard. She did not call for assistance because there was' no one about though she admitted it was cruel of her to hold her tongue. Slie admitted tho child found was her's, but denied killing it. She concluded by solemnly swearing her innocence of the crime. The jury found that the deceased child was thrown into the river either by the mother or' the man who she nays is its father* ■.; Four jurors dissented from this, and .wished, a simple verdict of wilful murder against the woman. The Coroner 'committud her for trial for wilful murder to the April sittings of the Supreme Court.

" What relation is a loaf of bread f,o a Bteam-cnginc ? Broad is a necessity ; a steam-engine is an invention. Necessity is the mother of inventon, therefore a loaf of bread is the mother of a steam-engine.