LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2169, 22 July 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

O [press agency.] Wellington, July 21. Mr Holloway, of the Agricultural Laborers' Association, and Mr Burton, of Taranaki, have been appointed Emigration Agents for JNew Zealand by the General Government. Dttnedin, July 21 . The Otago Daily Times letter-box at the Post Office was opened by a duplicate key on Saturday night, and letters containing money abstracted from a number of envelopes. Pieces of cheques were found in a gutter yesterday. Some of the cheques have been recovered. The police have obtained a good clue to the thief. He is supposed to be a person lately discharged from the Times office. At the same time one of the keys of the letterbox was missed, which ia believed to be in his possession. Mr Walters ha 3 been elected Mayor by a majority of 372. There was great excitement. Files per Ofcago show that for the Melbourne Cnp, Imperial has come into the market at 100 to 7 ; Echo, 100 to 5. Kingsborough is still first favorite for both the Metropolitan and the Champion Race, Lurlina has been backed [at a shade less odds than Kingsborough for the Champion, and Calumny is first favorite for the Hawkesbury Handicap. In the Supreme Court case of Glassford v. Reid, an action to recover Ll.OOO damages for polluting a stream at Manuherikia, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of one shilling for polluting the stream, and L5O for damage to property. Christchttroh, July 21. In the Supreme Court case, Newton v. Wilson, a verdict for the plaintiff was given, with one farthing damages. The evidence created considerable amusement. .