LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 125, 31 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Duwedin, 30th May. A prisoner escaped from the Botanical Garden to-day by putting on a warder's coat, and strolling off in a most unconcerned manner. He was not missed for several minutes. Ho was serving' a short sentence, which would expire to-morrow. It is stated that a man from Tnapeka was robbed of .£2OO by pocket-picking at the Forbury Racea on the Queen's Birthday. A crowded meeting of sympathisers with the Irish Land League was held to-night. Resolutions were car.ried- r expraa&inff sym-J pathj\ ' Subscription Hate were oMm^Mgm a ladies' commi^e taamC^^"* " '] This Day. Prince has purchased Mata for .£BOO, and intends bringing him to New Zealand. The licensed victuallers object to 35 applicants for new licenses on the ground that additional accommodation is not required. Christchurch, This Day. Tenders have been accepted for additions to the Canterbury College, to cost £62,90. The agricultural statistics for the Counties of Akaroa, ABhburton, and Selwyn, published to-day give the following averages :—: — Wheat, 23 bushels per acre ; oats, 27 ; barley, 25 ; potatoes; 4 tons per acre. Mr. Thornton, engineer, has replied to Mr. O"Connor's report on the proposed West Coast Railway. He asserts that the latter is wrong in several vital points, and that Mr. O'Connor's estimate of the cost is at least too high. Namer, 30th May. Mr. Clark, manager orthe South Pacific Petroleum Company, telegraphs to the Herald that an analysis of the paraffin of the material found in the company's claim, made by Mr. Dixon, public analyst at Sydney, shows 30 per cent, solid paraffin. The balance ia composed of kerosene, 25 per cent; intermediate oils, 14 per cent. ; heavy oils, 52 per cent.; carbon and loss, 11 per cent. Balcltjtha, 30th May. Mr Thomson addressed his constituents to-night, and received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. Auckland, This Day. Mr. Maorae, head-master of the Grammar School, recently wrote to the Board of Governors, stating that unless the Rev. Mr. Gulliver, the English master, were removed, he would himself resign. The Governors resolved to relieve Mr. Macrae of his duties, giving him twelve months' salary, and appointing Mr. Sloman to the temporary headmastership. Hawera, This Day. Walter Stannard has been committed to -take his trial at the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, on a charge of stealing a mare from a native named Poki. Charles Williams has received a sentence of six months' imprisonment for stealing money from William Shearer, on the Queen's Birthday. Major Parris left here on Monday for the purpose of liberating another batch of Maori prisoners. Tamatowa, chief of the Taiporohenui tribe, has died suddenly at an advanced age. No chief on the coast was more respeoted. Some time ago, through Major Brown, he requested the editor of the Star to ask his pakeha friends not to visit him on Sunday, • as ho had strictly observed the Sabbath since he became a Christian. Ashburton, This Day. The man Goldburg who, as reported yesterday, was arrested on a charge of vagrancy, was discharged to-day. INVKKCARGII.L, THIB DAY Charles Peterson, charged with stealing, from the Waipapapa beach, a gun belonging to the late Dr. Campbell, who was lost in the Tararua, was sentenced to two months' hard labor. In consequence of the stoppage of the steamer Mountaineer, the Waimea Plains Railway Company have ceased running their trains on the Government railway from Elbow to Kingston. The traffic, as formerly, is coming via Invercargill three times a week.