TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1299, 19 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

• (from our ows" correspondent. ) oh<ustcburch,l7. The diamond drill was successfully started at the Springfield olliery Company's, works to-day. The day's proceedings ended with a public dinner. A button 0$ smelted gold, weighing about 18 dwts was showed at the mining exchange to-day by a miner, who said it was the result of a week's work at the. Mnety-Mile Bench Oamaru, 17. The Upper Waitaka Ferry Hotel, owned, and occupied by Mrs Ross, was destroyed by fire oa Sunday morning Auckland, 19. Mr Moucree D. Con way, the lecturer, is a through passenger to Sydney by the Australia, to declare in -*• ii3tr«ilia on men and things in Rngland. He goes thence to India to study Indian literature. It is not known whether New Zealand is in his programme. M'Gregor, of Northern Wairoa, aged 87, went out to look for cattle on the 19th, and has not been heard of since. Judge Gillies, who has been experimenting in sorghum culture, says in a paper read at the ucklaud Institute: " The results astounded me, and prove sorghum as a surrounding crop to "be valuable beyond my boldest estimation 1 ." The Doric passengers have be^en passed by the health officer, and she is now berthed at the wharf. There are scarcely any Government immigrants for Southern ports. Wellington, 18. • The Wauaka with the Frisco mail*' left New Plymouth for Wellington direct at 7.45 this morning. She will therefore, probably arrive here at daylight tomorrow. ! * "•'■ It is expected that all the members of ther MSnistryywill re-assemble in Wellington to-morrow, including the Hon. Mr Oliver, whto comes up from Dunedin expressly to attend the.Cabinet. ?*everal Important matters require to be dealt with at once, including the Longh'urst'.'case< ; y The question. as to which Minister shall represent this Colony at the Australian Conference, . to be held at Sydney next month touching the subject of annexation. Also to make, various arrangements ren- , dered necessary by the new legislation of last session. Mr Rollestpn and Mr Olliver will probably arrive. by tP-morrow's boat from : the South, and Mr JBryce in the evening, overland from the West Coast. FRISCO MAIL ITEMS. Marwood stood a chance of losing his position as -.hangman- at Durham on the 18th August. ' He appeared drunk on the scaffold to hang the man Beton, for I the murder of a woman. I Special measures were taken in Dublin j on the 22nd, for the protection of the j officials at the Park, as threats of murder were repeated. The juror Field sold his furniture and house in Oublin on the 16th ult., preparatory to quitting Ireland. Some attempt was made to boycott the sale. A despatch from Dublin says the assassinated informer James Carey early in 1882 sent 2 men to London to shoot Mr Forster, then Chief Secretary of Ireland, but their courage failed them. In Dublin two men were put under heavy bail for threatening the life of Francis Carey, brother of the murdered informer. When Francis was attacked he drew a revolver and covered his assailants, and held them till they were transferred to (he custody of the police in Dublin. It is said Carey himself chose to go to atal. He would not go to Australia, because he knew many Fenians fearing arrest had escaped to that Colony. When the news of the murder reached Ireland the wildest delight was manifested. Mobs entered houses and seized bedding, furniture, and other articles, with which to make bonfires, and effigies of the (lead informer were burned, and mock funerals held in many towns, and enormous bonfires blazed around Carey's old residence, and others in other streets. Bands marched through the city playing iNational tunes, followed by crowds of people, cheering as they marched. ~n lexandria correspondent (16th v ugust) says:—" lf the British troops should be withdrawn from Egypt no ' uropean family could remain in the country a week after their departure. " " Egypt, " he says, "is capable of self-government." The boxing match between L. Sullivan? of Boston, champion of /" merica, and Herbert Slade, Maori, and protege of Jem Mace, came off on the evening of the 6th ult., in Madisson-square Garden, New York, and resulted in Slade being knocked out in the third round. Twelve thousand people assembled in the garden. A movement has-been made in i ondon to erect a memorial to the unfortunate swimmer Captain Webb, and at the same (

time to raise a fund for his wife and 1 family, who reside in Boston. i Undeterred by Captain Webb's fate ' Captain J. Brode, also a noted swimmer, gave notice on the Ist ult., thai within ninety days he intends to heave the rapids aud whirlpool. Captain Webb's widow came to "* iagara to receive her husband's body, and was taken to the fatal whirlpool, where he met his death, and is reported to have made light of the difficulties of the under^ taking. ' Poor man," she said, "he must have struck a rock in diving, or else he would have been all right. Why, I could swim that myself."