TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1246, 16 March 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FIIOM OUK OWN COItRESPONDENT. ) CnnisTcnußCii 14. A meeting of Mr ,J. Oram Shepphard's creditors was ' held yesterday, at which the liabilities were stated to be £40,000, and the assets £50,500. Of the liabilities £40,000 are secured by £50,000, the estimated value of the assets. Messrs Stead and Royse and A. C. Wilson wore appointed a committee to investigate the position of the estate ou behalf of the creditors. Auckland, 14. When Mr Bryce arrived at the Thames a crowd who assembled to hoot him were nicely sold. 'I hey mistook their man, and followed Mr John Murray, Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, hooting him the whole way. Nelson 14. The session of tha Diocesan Synod has now closed. The resolutions of most general interest passed during the session were as follows : — A motion by Mr Andrews, seconded by the Rev. J. P. Kempthorne, and carried, unanimously : That in order to strengthen the hands of the clergy in refusing to marry a deceased wife's sister to her brother-in-law, the General Synod bo requested to re-affirm that such marriages are expressly forbidden by the law of the Churches of England, in accordance with tho teaching of the Holy Scripture. It was also agreed that the General Synod bo respectfully requested to petition ,bofch Houses of the Legislature lo adopt some measure, whereby the Holy Scriptures m^y be in fcro-f duccd into the State Schools withoui

violation of tlie rights of conscience, similarly to ,tlic > principle obtaining in. tins' matter. in" the Board Schools in England. , ■ ■■ , 15. Tlic Tipporary Company, at Macotown, sent clown a cake of 955 ounces of gold, from about 400 tons of stono. New Plymouth 15. The Urouni correspondent of the Taranaki Herald writes that the natives here- seemed pleased at Te Whiti and Tohu's return. Te Whiti has sent word to them not to visit Paaihaka, or else trouble would again arise in the land. Chbistchurch, 15 The liabilities in the estate of Mr J, Oram Sheppard are set down at £50,000, not £40,000, as stated yesterday. Auckland, 15. Mr O. W. Hursthouse, of the Public Works Department, who left Alexandra on Monday, for the purpose of making a flying 'tmrtef'oV the TOfr# to Taranaki, returned yesterday, the Natives refusing to allow him to proceed. Wellington, 15. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has now. received Mr VVes'ton's resignation for Inarigahua. Mr E. Shaw has definitely decided to declare himself immediately as a candidate for that seat ■ The Hinemoa goe^ South this evening, taking the Hon &|ajor Atkinson and starting from I ytteltyjfn to-morrow on her return trip to Welsj|to"s conveying. His Excellency the Governor and suit.