TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1324, 16 November 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from ouu own correspondent. ) DUNEDIN, 15. The sum of £150 has been remitted from Otago in aid of the destitution existing in the Highlands and islands of Scotland^ Of thijj sum :; £BO wife tailed in the Oamaru district alone. The question of Dummy ism, decided at the last meeting of the Land Board is to be re-opened. Ch^istchorch, 14. The New Zealand Shipping Company has received a telegram that the Fenstantou reached Rio Janeiro on the 9th instant. The refrigerator worked j satisfactorily, and the cavgo of frozen meat was in good condition. A marble bust \?f Garibaldi, executed to the order df. the Italian residents, has been received. The work is ' said to be admirable. The bust will be formally presented to the Museum. Te Aroha, 14. The battery returns for yesterday's cleaning up were as follows : — Premier, 108; Colonial, 83; New Find, 114; Werahiki, 93; Waitoki, 11 ounces amalgam. The mines continue to look as well as ever. • , Auckland, 15. •Senior Cbuncellor Wiaddell has been nominated for the Mayoralty. The scheme for lighting the (Jueenstreet wharves with the electric light has been abandoned for the present, The Harbor Boaicl decided in view of the great cost primarily and annually of the electric light, ami also in view of the probable improvements in electric lighting affecting the. power and efficiency of same, that the consideration of the subject be deferred. Shrimski, M.H.R., is in uckland, and continues in an infirm state of health. While residing at the Lakes, and undergoing a conrse at the baths

he became quite well, but since leaving has had a relapse. Invkbcakgill, 14. A man named Crisp was struck by lighting to^ay at^siiljtirb^n railway station arid*l«Hed. 'fFrwf'others staudingls^|alsofrit the/Shock. fa pirnot, which ' i Hrf apparently well founded, has been circulated here to tlfeT&iFect f , that '^wo children named Fraser have been killed by lightning at the Gap Eoad Station, on the Northern line, about 7 miles from town. Their parents are also said to have been either injured by the, lightning, or to have been prostrated by .he calamity^tft their, children The storm was unprecedented in its results in the district. The telegraph poles have l>een split, and telephones in town were charged with electricity, and the bells in the vaiious offices were ringing frequently. On the inner? (skin) of Crips the representation o£ a tree was distinctly marked as if photographed. '„... Ayc^tAN-D, 15. Sir G.. (-jrey lectured; on -Federation and, Annexation last night at the Theatre Royal to a droVrded audience. Senior Councillor, Waddell presided. Sir George G^ey, was enthusiastically cheered on coming forward to address the meeting. Sir George concluded his lecture amidst great applause. Mr Tole, M.H.H., moved., and Mr J, ,B. Hill seconded the following resolution.: " That this meeting accords its hearty thanks to ISirG. Grey for his dble atfd eloquent address on Fedei^ibiji and Annexation, and is of. opinion that the Islands in the Pacific ocean should not be made the receptacles for the convicts of any nation. This ' 'l*a3 darried" by acclamation, and the meeting broke up. with three cheers for SuvGy.OreyV' .. , ; Wellington, 15. )11 ' ; Mir John t)a.yrpon pf tjiii^ ,9ityj.lias been recommended by Ministers i to: His Excellency the i..ov«rhor for-; appointment as official assignee' tindeV the new Bankruptcy Act for the Aiipkr land district. It wjij). be,, .remen)iber^d that Dawson held thei, office of Commissioner of North Island Railways until the abolition of that btfit-e. Subsequently he became accoqntant'to Messrs Johri $fpgde/n & Sons, the wellknown contractors* „ • / The names of the gentlemen selected for Wellington, Dunedin, and Cliristchurch are Messrs C. C. Graham (the Wellingtoiv town clerk), Jamns Ash-, croft, (the late editor of the Otago Daily Times) for Dunedin, and E. C. Latter (Canterbury). .. ;, , A terrific thunderstorm burst over the Marton district on Tuesday.afternoon, and between Marton and Great ford six telegraph poles were shivered into splinters by the lightning. . ..,..! .N ew Plymouth; 15. A poll'waa taken yesterday on two .questions. (1 j. Whether the burgesses wex*e in favor of a number of town sections which have been used as a race course being Crown grants to the Borough, with power to lease for 21' years as- a whole for horse-racing,' .crickes, bowling or other,, purposes, and (2). Whether the sections should be made over in perpetuity as a reserve for the use of the Taraoaki Jockey Club, Tarrnaki Agaicultural Society, •and general recreation grouuds. The result of the polling wasiCrown granting to borough 270 ; against, 25 over three hundred.. Waikato ,Vlaoris passed through the town early yesterday morning,