TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3901, 9 May 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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ENGLISH PREPARATIONS. RUSSIAN REPULSES. RENDEZVOUS OF BRITISH IRONCLADS. LONDON, May 6. ArsTiiiA, though neutral, reserves tho lilerty of action to protect her own interests. Military preparations arc going fonvarcl in the English arsenals and dockyards. The Porte has protested to the other PoAvers against the recently signed RussoIvMimanian convention, and has suspended the functions of the Roumanian agent at S.amboul. The London Times states that soA.n cavalry regiments, four brigades of artilleiy, and forty-nine battalions of infantry are in reserve, for son-ice abroad if required. The AA'holo Russian army is placed on a AAT.r footing. Money is stiff". Bank minimum rato of discount, 3 per cent. The reserve is under £3,000,000. Stocks arc recovering, Avith the exception of consols, Avhich are cloavii to 93;_. The AA.ieat rise has been arrested ; the market is iioav quiet. NeAV Zealand tallow is Aveaker, and has declined one shilling. SINGAPORE, May 7. England has annexed the Transvaal Republic. The Russians hrwc been twice repulsed at Kars, Avith heavy loss, and compelled to fall back. The British ironclad squadron at Corfu has been ordered to rendezvous at Crete.

AUCKLAND, IMay S. The Rotorua, from South, sailed for Sydney Avith 30 passengers. Great dissatisfaction is expressed here at the rise in the price of flour by the millers ; Southern, £18, and superfine Auckland, £22. The Union .Sash and Door Company have called a meeting to increase their capital by the issue of 30,000 shares nominally of £5. The city accounts to-day shoAved the receipts for tlie first three months of tlie year to be £5540 ; licenses yielding £2020 -. encloAvments, £1143. Office expenditure, £717 ; on streets and footAvays, £1248 (.2430 from loan expended on same object) ; silt basins, £150 ; fire brigades. £112. Balance iii bank on ordinary account, £2300 ; on account of loan, £7200. Total city indebtedness, including Avalenvorks loan, £169,504 ; assets, £243,470. CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. The funeral of Drury, the engine driver Avho aams killed by the recent accident on the railAAMy, took place on Sunday. Over 2000 people folloAved. The railAAMy employees on the South line Avere brought to Christchurcli by a special train. All the heads of the railway department aa -ei . also present. Ten scholarships have been offered by the Board of Education this year. A special conference of school teachers to AA'hich tlie Canterbury members of the Assembly are invited to attend, is to be held on Saturday next. The following resolutions Avill be proposed : — " That education be free, compulsory, but religious and unsectarian, and supported by a conscious clause.'' " That no certificate be issued to teachers on examination higher than second class, first class to be attained by success as a teacher aud length of service only." "That inspectors be appointed by the central authority, and one shall bo appointed as chief inspector, as in England, so as to render the system of examination uniform throughout the colony." '■ That it is desirable" to t:ike stops to form a national union of teachers. '' ' ' That the standing of teachers be differently defined.*' In the Resident Magistrate's Court, a number of publican _ luia . been summoned for neglecting to take out licenses foi* extra bars. J. Barrett, of the Devonshire Arms Hotel, aams taken as a test ease. The evidence shoAved there Avere half doors and a small AvindoAV at Avhich persons Avhile standing in the passage, or in a room AA'hich opened into the street, could be sen .d ivith liquor from the bar. Counsel for the defence urged that it aams absurd to call these separate bars ; no such definition aams placed on the Avord " bar" in England, nor could it iv common sense be done here. The Bench said the Licensing Act of 1873 distinctly said the Avord '' bar'" should be deemed to include any room, passage, or lobby, opening immediately on to the street, in Avhich the public are supplied Avith refreshments. A fine of £5 aams imposed. Notico of appeal aams giA .n. Tho other cases Avere adjourned sine die. Afc the Akaroa Magistrate's Court on Friday, a most barefaced case of perjury occurred. J. Adams aams sued by H. G. Watkins for an account of £70, for jeAvellery, i.e., supplied to his AA'ife and adopted daughter. Both the Avonien SAvore distinctly that they had never bought any goods — the latter, a Miss Henderson, asserting that the goods had been given to her by a Mi- Delamain, to A.-honi she aams formerly engaged. A Vat kins produced several Avitnesses avlio proved to the contrary. Ultimately Mr Williams, counsel for defendant, said it aams no use to call further evidence — there was sufficient to sliotv that the statemenis made by Mrs Adams and by Miss Henderson AVer, false. If the Bench would say that no information Avould be laid for per jury, they should be recalled, and Avould retract all they had sworn to. The Bench declined to giA'o such assurance, aud criminal proceedings have since been instituted against both the females. DITNEDTN, May 8. A private letter has just been received | here, stating that Lys'tcrs Opera Company Avill not visit Ncav Zealand for six montiis. Much dissatisfaction was expressed yesterday at the manner in Avhich the postal arrangements in connection Avith tho ari-iA-al and despatch of English and Australian mails are carried out. The inAvard mails Avere not delivered till after the box for the outAvard mails per AraAA'ata had closed. The result aams that, Avith feAv exceptions, merchants Avere unable to reply to letters received by the Ringarooma. A rule -nisi for a neAV trial has been granted in the case of Russell v. Smyfches, on the ground of misdirection by the Judge.

OAMARU, May 8. A raihvay accident occurred here on Saturday night, by which a man named J. S. Arthur aams killed. The particulars are as follow, .—When the doAvn train from Christchurch aams clue at 8 p.m., and Avas Avithin 550 yards of the LoAver Bell station, the driver noticed that the engine passed over some soft object, bufc thought it aams a stray sheep. The circumstance aams reported to tho station master, avlio sent a person to search. The messenger aams horror struck to find the body of a man lying alongside the track nearly severed in two. Life of course aams extinct. The deceased appeared to be about 20 years old, and had neither boots, stockings, or coat on. From papers found on his person, his name Avas ascertained, and that he arrived from GlasgoAv in February per ship Auckland. He had been at Avork in Anderson's flour mill, Dunedin, and latterly at Kakanua. He came to Oamaru on Saturday morning, and got drunk, missed the return train, and evidently started to Avalk along the line, but mistook his Avay, going North instead of South. KUMARA, May 8. A fire broke out in TubalPs general store last night. The store aams entirely destroyed, together Avith _avo private houses adjoining. The fire was prevented spreading to the adjacent buildings by the exertions of the inhabitants. Several late members of the Greymouth and Hokitika Fire Brigades rendered valuable assistance, tliere being no local brigade. Tuball is tlie sole sufferer, .md his loss is estimated at over £2000, Avhich Avas insured in the South British for £1250. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 8. For the Supreme Court sessions there aams only one person for trial — C. E. Meredith, late clerk to the Resident Magistrate's Courts at Carlyle and HaAvera. He Avas found guilty of embezzlement, ancl sentenced to tAvo years' imprisonment. A shock of earthquake aams felt this morning at 7.30 o'clock. Major Atkinson, aalio has been Avaiting for an opportunity to get .way to meet the Avhole of his colleagues at AVellington, could not get off to the Stella, oaa 'ing to the rough sea. He Avill remain here till the Stella returns. The Aveather is very stormy. NELSON, May S. As the schooner May aams coming cloavii tho bay early this morning, she aams struck by a heavy sea, and Glover, the master, aams SAvept oa -erboard and clroAvned. AVELLINGTON, May 8. The following ships haA'e arrived at London : — From Melbourne : — Carlile Castle, True Briton, Clara, Sarah Grice, and Oneida. From Sydney : Martha Birnie, Queen of Nations, La Hogue, ancl Nineveh. From Dunedin : Elizabeth Graham. From AVellington : St. Leonards. From Napier : Helen Denny. Noavs has been received here that the cable betAveen Amoy and Shanghai is broken. TAUPO, May 8. Messrs Mair ancl Booth arrived here last night, to pay money to certain RaukaAva natives who are selling their Otaki lands to the Government. Tlie natives are anxiously preparing for the Land Court, AA-hich is expected to sit here shortly.