LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

( -? |UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, 6th May.

W. Day, City Conncil clerk, has been appointed a Mormon elder. He has resigned his appointment, and goes to Utah. The brigantine Annie Bow, from Timaru, reports that she cculd soe nothing of the reported wreck at Little Barrier. The Selena, from Oamaru, reports seeing, on passing the island this mornißg, a vessel apparently ashore, on the north-cast corner. A. boat leaves Auckland to-night, with. Captain Clayton, to investigate. George Rhodes, carpenter, who fell on the asphalte pavement and broke his leg, died in the hospital. The insurance on Beddell's brewery was as follows :— Building : National, .£IOOO ; Standard, .£900 ; New Zealand, .£IOOO. The New Zealand office also had a policy of .£6OO on the contents. There is no due to the origin. The whole place was on fire at once. This Day. The charges, against Abbott for holding sweeps, on races again,' failed to-day, the informations, being ruled' to be bad on tho objeotion taken by the defendant's counsel. ' "¦-''''' ¦¦ i 'DJEtnedin, 6th May. ¦Three declarations ofinsolvenoy were filed during the week. ./* Th? Bruce Herald'give3 currency to a report that Mr. C. S. Reeves will be a probable candida^e^br'BWoe at the general election. There is no fresh nows from the wreck of the Tararua. Th*e Union Company haye received a telegram from London asking if George Moore Frean was a passenger by the Tararua, but there is no trace of his having booked. The disqualification of Byers (the owner), Byers (the jockey), and the horse Golden Crown, by the Auckland Racing Clnb, has been endorsed by the Dunedin Jockey Club. New Plymouth, 6th May. The Supreme Court was opened to-day by Judge Richmond. There were eight cases for trial, but no crimes of a heinous oharaoter. There- were various forms of larceny, two cases of forgery, and ono of embezzlement. William Cunningham, tor stealing a gold chain from a brewer at Hawera, was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months' hard labor ; Jas. Smith, for forging J. S. Caverhill's name to a cheque, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment ; John Wills, charged with stealing a chestnut mare at Akuhatu, was acquitted. The Grand Jury found a true bill against Wilkinson, charged with embezzling money from the Government at Hawera. This case will come before the Court on Monday. Port Chalmers, 6th May. In reference to the Peruvian barque Fray Bentos, a lator telegram states that '' the vessel will be towed in to-night. There is no disturbance on board, nor has there been any person drowned." Invbrcargill, This Dat. Mr. M'Caughan, M.H.R. for Riverton, has decided not to resign. He will address his constituents before the session, as also will Mr. Hirst, the member for Wallace. The census returns ara as follows : — Invercargill. 2375 males and 2222 females ; total, 4597 ; increase, 836. Suburbs (approximate), 32 Id. Riverton, 1191 (including 113 Chinamen). The population of Orepuki and Round Hill ia 917, of whom 363 are Chinamen. Hawera, Thts Dat. A man was shot on the Waimate Plains to-day. The affair took place on the Mountain Road. Two men were on a, bullockdray, and gave chase to a pig. In the excitement one shot the other through the thigh. Dr. Richards attended and dressed the wounds, and the man is now at Domingo's boarding-house. The case is a serious one. slugs being- used. It is feared the limb will have to be amputated.