TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1268, 7 May 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUB OWk OOfcBESPONPBSfT. ) ii',' AU6KLAND, 4. Lizzie Jackson, a girl aged 18, was brought op at the police court on three charges of beating children, and stripping off their clothing. The' Magistrate prdered her father to «nter into- recognisance of £25 for the girl to come up for judgment when called upon, " 5 Private letters by the mail state that Lovegrove, the Waikato claimant to the Perwentwater estates, has been recognised by his mother, though he has been absent 26 years. A man named O'Shea stole a chalice and paten from St Patrick's Cathedral, tnt both hard been retfofered and O'Bhea arrested. Nbisok, 6. Dr Irvine, a prominent medical man of this city, died early this morning. He leaves a large circle of friends, and was highly respected DCKEDIN, 5. Mr W. Green has prepared a bill to read in conjunction with the Education,

Act,, empowering committees to appoint i special person during school hours, not exceeding 30 minutes, during which' bible reading BhaU . be -given tfnder the ' supervision of the State Teacher, also for instructive lessons on Morality and Virtue, but nodenoini national or religiqus teaching to be given,, and- no ohild wh&se parentfi v object to attend. Ministei-s may also give concurrent .religious instruction. Teachers for breach hereof, shall, if conyjcted,[be dismissed. • Ikybroargill, 5. ■' of "&&(& burning are reported in this, district, and incendiarism is suspected. Some boys manufactured a gun With a piece of old gaspipe and the plug of a boiler-piat^ soldered in one end to make a breach, a. touch-hole being bored in the pipe. One. boy held the gun while the other put a light to the touch-hole. ...The. plug was' blown out,* an£ entered the boy's .forehead to the depth of one inch and a half, but has been extracted, and the boy is doing well. . Chbibtoettbch i. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association has resolved to memoralise the Government, reconametwßrig measured for jthe prevention of .tiSe introduction' of the cattle disease. i three girls have been remanded by the B.M. on a charge of aiding in concealment of birth. A fourth implicated has been arrested at Oamaru, and will be brought up on Saturday. The child is supposed to be still-born. The electrio light was tried at the railway station last night, and was a great success. The trial at the port, ; which was to have taken place last | night, has been |postponed for a night or two in consequence of an accident I to the apparatus. v-f'TT ' \ \ Wbiungtoh, 5. *• The initiatory "steps have been taken in, an action for divorce, involving the names of several persons well-known in this city t and furnishing abundant material for gossip. The citation is about to be served, and if nothing is in .the way of the legal machinery, the case will come on for hearing at the next sittings of the Divorce Court j New Plymouth, 4. At the Supreme Court, the Grancl jury, having returned a true bill against William Dale,, of Patea, for forgery, was called on to surrender to hi* 1 bsil, htifrhe! iijiled to appear. ■ 'TBja'sureties (Captain- Odges. and ; Mr. T. %§ite) were- also called, but failed, to ,sgjjear. " '^The judge' ordered ths recog-; nfean^es 6f^e^nretieg,,j.n\witt4ieig te» iJSfeO.each/to be estreated. • r „*,.•& n