TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1336, 14 December 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■+ (from our own correspondent. ) Auckland, 12. Calliope dock. The engineer opposed bhe use of this stone on the ground bhat its qualities had not been sufficiBntly determined by use and experience. One of the first-fruits of MartiniHenry's splendid performances on the Victorian turf is the purchase of two Musket fillies from the New Zealand Stud Company for export to England. The purchaser is Mr Ashbury, late M.P. for Brighton, who is well-known for his love of sport, and who was the owner of the celebrated yatch Cambria, that won the International race, beating James Gordon Bennet's Vesta. Mr Ashbury witnessed the running of Martini-Henry in the Derby and Cup recently, and being much enamoured of the animal he came to Auckland to see his dam and sire. While being shown over the stock at Sylvia £ark by Major Walmsley Mr Ashbury greatly admired two fillies, one by Musket out of Poorly, and another by Musket out of All Steel, and these he resolved upon purchasing as carriage horses for himself. They will be sent to England by the steamer Doric. 18. A Medical Society was formed last night Dr Kennel was elected president. About a thousand persons assembled in the Exchange Hall to witness the sale of the wreck of the Triumph. Tbe first lot offered was the cargo remaining in the ship, consisting of two cases (esttmtrifecl value* J6soo) coal, and 300 tons railway iron. The whole was sold for £130, Mr Oxenham being the purchaser. The Haslem refrigerator was then offered and realised .£320. Mr W. Acken being tbe purchaser. The hull, macihnery, etc., were then offered. The bidding started at £500, and the lot was knocked down at £2,100 to Mr W. Acken. The official enquiry at the instance of the Colleclector of Customs was called on at the Police Court to-day, but was adjourned. Carterton, 13. An attempted murder took place at Carterton last night. A man named Alexander Anderson, formerly cook for Mr Carr, road contractor, had been drinking all day with his wife. While going along the Morton road at about 7.15 p.m. he struck her and stabbed her in the neck in two places. Dr Smith attended the woman. The wound is 'not fatal, but is of a serious character. A' man named Edwards, a farmer, saw the deed, but was frightened to interfere. The woman has been removed to Grey Town hospital. Anderson went home and sold everything. He then took his son and cleared out, but was cleverly arrested by constable Darby, at 2 a,m. The officer went in a trap and tracked the foot-marks about ten miles to Ray's Hotel, where the man was an*ested. He is very impudent, and denies all knowledge of the affah\ A constable has been sent to Grey Town to take the woman's depositions. Christchurch, 12. At the Oddfellows 1 Hall, which was crowded, a meeting of the unemployed was presided over by the Mayor, and addressed by Messrs Mnotgomerie, Holmes, and Wynn-Williams, M. H.R's and several working men. Nearly two hundred unemployed were present. It was stated that the number of unemployed in Christchurch and suburbs was from 500 to 700. Hugh Flannagan,, a patient in the hospital, cut his throat shortly after 10 o'clock to-night, and died shortly after. The Chamber of Commerce at a meeting to-day passed a resolution expressing the deepest regret and indignation at the dilatoriness of the Ministry re sending a \ essel to search for the missing seamen on the Auckland Island, and agreed that failing immediate action on the part of the Government a steamer should be at once chartered and despatched. The cost to be defrayed by public subscription. The sum of £680 was guaranteed at the meeting. Wellington, 13. Quartz reefing at Teriwhiti has now almost totally collapsed. A good deal of ill feeling has been engendered at the complete failure of most of the mines. A sharp wordy warfare took place the other evening at one of the meetings of shareholders between William M'Lean, late of Reef ton, and Chantry Harris, of the Times, one of the oldest mining reporters in the Colony. Very personal remarks were passed until the chairman interfered.