TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1309, 12 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(prom our own correspondent. ) Wellington, 19. The Albion Company, Terawhiii, has just finished cleaning up. 330 tons were put through, and only 10 and three quartets ounces retorted gold was obtained. Great disappointment is felt &t this result. DuNEniN, 10. The Land Board to-day decided to hold an, enquiry on -the 8 1st in st with reference to the suspected cases of dumnayism .at Silver Peak and Waikouati. Edwards and Scott begin their 48 hours walking match to morrow night, at 10. Scott has never walked move than 21 hours before, and Edwards is thought likely to win. The Now Zealand Shipping (Vs., chartered steamer, British Queen, Capt. Powell, from London and Plymouth, via the Cape, arrived in Port Chalmers this morning. She brings about 250 passengers. The steamer left London on 21st, A ugust, and Plymouth on the 23rd ugust. Adokxaxd, 10. The City of Sydney, took 19 boxes of gold, valued at £80,888, shipped at this port, and 15 bo::es of gold, valued at £75,700, shipped at Sydney, making a total of £155,888. ' A society has been foi'tned for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and the Governor is to be requested to be patron, Bishop Cowie, vice patron, and Judge Gillies, president. Dargaville addressed the electors lasi. night, and was well received by a lai'ge audience. He decribed Major Atkinson as a professional politician of 20 years' expereince, able and unscrupulous, whose chief weapons in the House were vulgar raillery and coarse invective. The golden signs of a great political bank were spread around and over him and over three fourths of the Press of the Colony where in his interest. This made him so insolent and domineering thatmany members oil the Opposition were afraid to speak before him. To observe towards him the refined courtesies of delate would, beabou'as incongruous as taking off one's hat to a mastiff. He pointed out that in the,last I'hw hours of the season the Government had passed a' Bil to legalise its illegal conduct in lending a quarter of a million to the Bank of \ew Zealand without security, and similar transactions. He complained of the way the Government treated the Con-troller-General, and dwelt at length on the management of the Government Insurance Department. When the matter was actually under investigation by the Public Accounts Committee the Commissioner entered into a new contract for two and a-half years with Mr Thorne. The Treasurer was aware of a report from the Committee on this outrageous proceeding, which was supported by the Government vote. He advocated the political autonomy of each Island with a central legislature to deal with Colonial subjects only. He did not believe in abolishing the Legislative Couucil. Chiustchurch, in. A lad named Lyuham was killed at Templeton this morning in trying to prevent a horse-bolting. The shaft of the cart struck him behind the ear, and death was almost instantaneous. Joe Strong, the wrestler committed suicide to-day by stabbing his throat with a pocket knife. He was dead when found at the house where he lodged. . -