TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5352, 9 April 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

* [By Cable.] [reuter's telegrams.] LONDON, Undated. The Board of Trade returns of imports for the past month amount to £29,875,500, snowing an increase of £3,343,750 compared with the "corresponding month of last year. The return of exports for the past month amounts to £16,187,500, showing an increase of £593,850. The Brindisi mail £was delivered in London on April 7. April 8. New Zealand five per cent, loan, 102. MELBOURNE, April 7. Mr Berry telegraphs to Sir Brian O'Loghlen that he will have another interview shortly with the Secretary of State for the Colonies. SYDNEY, April 7. Owing to a difficulty having arisen between the Lambton and Associated collieries, disturbances are expected tomorrow. April 8. The steamer Menmuir has arrived at Port Darwin from Hong Kong, with 556 Chinese, including 26 for New Zealand. Another steamer with Chinese is expected at Port Darwin in a few days. An uproarious meeting of Lambton colliers was held at Newcastle to-day. The majority of the men are inclined to continue work. A large body of police were present in consequence of apprehensions of a riot,

■[special to the press association.] LONDON, April 8. : An ii^urrdction has broken out in the TransvUdl amongst the SoerS.' Proposals of pea(ie have been made by CetaWayo; but ; it is Relieved they are made td gam , time. ' (Received, at 2.20 o'clock this morning.)

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LONDON, April 7. - The Secretary of State for the colonies, in reply to a question in ttie Houso of Commons, said that the sincerity of Getawayo in his peace proposals was doubtful. , . Complete submission would aldrie s'riCis'fy tbe British (Government.. He added that General Peai'Sdn had made a road shortening the distance to Ekowe three miles. The Houso of Commons has adjourned for the Easter recess.

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rAtfOISLAND, April 8. '. The English Opera Company, dt the Theatre Eoyal, under the direction of Signor Pompei, are not meeting with much favor. Thers is general disappointment at^ the quality of the artistes. Season tickets havo been offered freely for some time past at a very largo discount, their original owners having lost all interest in the performance. The case of Thomas Fitchett, alias Sheldon, charged with arson, occupied the Supreme Coilrfc all to-day. Ho was found guilty; Sentence Was deferred. A -subscription is going fa' be raised at Helensville to institute legal proceedings against the Government in order to obtain compensation for the widow and children of the stoker killed on the Kaipara line by the falling of a watertank. He is described as having been very steady. CEISTCHUHCH, April 8. All the cases hoard at the Supremo Court to-day ended in acquittals. The Court was occupied till a quarter to eight to-night, hearing the cases of Alex. Fitzgerald and Esther Can* charged with I larceny, and that of Peter James Fowler, I a railway guard, who was charged with embezzling money received for tickets sold on trains. The arson case will probably come on to-morrow. A meeting of the committee appointed to carry out the arrangements in connection with the approaching chesa congress was held last evening in the clubroom. The secretary reported that subscriptions for the prizes were coming in satisfactorily. : , The following weights have been declared for the Freo Handicap: — Fishhook, 9st 71b ; Templeton, 9st 41b; Maritana, 9st; Foul Play, Bst 101 b; 'Mate, Bst 101 b; Titania, ,Bst 61b; Middleton, Bst 61b; Natator, "Bst 31b ; Camballo, Bst 21b ; Chancellor, Bst ; Lara, 7st 131 b; Nemo, 7stl2lb; Laertes, 7st 111 b; Longlands, 7stlOlb; Vampire, 7st 101 b; Ratcatcher, 7st slb ; . York, -7st 21b ; Orange Lightning, 7st ; Eandwick, 7st ; Naiad, 6st 121 b ; Undine, 6st 101 b; Nuina, 6st 101 b; Eversley, 6st 71b ; The Agent, 6st 41b ; Te Whitu, 6st 21b ; Huntingdon, 6st 21b; Eobin Hood, 6st; Moose, 6st; Black Prince, 6st ; Blue Eibbon, 6st; Fakir, 6st; Ivanhoe, 6st. Handicap Steeplechase — Agent, 12st 71b ; Te Whetu, 12st 31b ; Eversley, list; Ivanhoe, lOst 121 b ; Fakir, lOst 71b. DUNEDIN, April 8. Messrs Oliver, Driver, and Bastings have sent by telegram a strong remonstrance to the Minister of Public Works against the acceptance of tenders for the erection of extensive railway workshops at Addington, near Ghristchurch, and ! urging that Dunedin is the proper centre of the railway arrangements for the Middle Island. It is said that the workshops are to cost £100,000. Mr Conyers, Commissioner of Eailways for the Middle Island, has returned from Queenstown, via Invercargill, much improved in health. At the Supreme Court criminal sessions to-day, Timothy Flaherty, charged with I burglary, was acquitted. William Thomas Salomon, forgery and uttering, was found . guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. George Ansely, convicted of burglary, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Alexander M'Leod and Alfred Shears, stealing from the person, six months' hard labor. John Moon, for rape on a girl seven years old, was found guilty, and sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, with two private whippings of 35 lashes each with a cat-o'-nine tails. William Hay Wallace, stealing from the person, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. . At a meeting of bookmakers, held recently, it was unanimously resolved, to post defaulters of the last Autumn Meeting, without any exception, forthwith. At the Milton Police Court, before E. H. Carew, E.M., John Alexander Duthie and James Davills, for unlawfully hunting hares out of season, were each fined £30, with costs. Half the amount of the fines goes to Eanger Burt, who prosecuted. WELLINGTON, April 8." ~ . At tf>o Supreme Court to-day, Eriiest Y^ftgner, architect, on two charges of icMfy j^Btence/Jv^y means of valueless chequl/VNvas pittGenc"ed to twelve months on each, (\:,£ftsrrently. John" Shearer and Peter .- .-'jp^'iti were tried for rob-: bing a dtiufktm man in" a publichouse. Shearer was..^^tted, and Newton' con? victed. SentcjGe was deferred. The apprentice of the Loch Fergus, John T. Jones, who killed Henry Banks, the cook- of the same vessel, was acquitted, the Judge telling the jury that ' if they thought Jones considered he was in danger of his life when he picked up the capstan bar and struck the cook, they must acquit the prisoner. In the course of the evidence Dr Diver said that the skull of Banks was the thinnest he had ever seen during 22 years' practice. Dr Keating gave similar evidence. It | appeared from the evidence the blow inflicted on the head of tho deceased would not have injured a skull of ordinary thickness. An affecting scene occurred at the lock-up after the prisoner Ernest Wagner had been removed to' the cells. It appears that Wagner was engaged to be married to a lady who was present in Court during the last two days, and after he received his sentence to-day she was permitted to see him for the purpose of saying " good bye." A law students society has been formed here. A robbery took place between Saturday night and Monday morning from the Athenaeum. The librarian reports that on Saturday night he left a cash box containing £23 14s 6d in cash, notes, and cheques in his desk, which, between the times mentioned, was forced open and the cash-box ahd contents removed. The Governnor will leave here in the Hinemoa on the loth inst. for the Bluff, and from thence will proceed overland to Southland, Otago, and Canterbury, spending about three weeks on the tour. The Hinemoa has not yet returned from Opunake, but is expected to-night. She will leave again to-morrow with Mr Sheehan,