LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 226, 26 June 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Westport, June 26. The Road is opened for traffic from Westport to Reefton. A four horse Mail Coach started on its first trip this morning, and will run through in a day twice weekly. Christchurch June 25. At a meeting of the Drainage Board . to-day, a letter waa read from Mr Carruthers resigning the appointment of Consulting Engineer. The consideration of the letter was postponed. It is rumored that a new morning paper is to be started at Timarn. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, W. H. Capons, the boy arrested for endeavoring to pass buttons, made in imitation of sovereigns, as. sovereigns, was committed to the Industrial School for 18 months, A youth named charged with 'a similar offence, was committed for trial Thomas H. Fielding, formerly editor of the Licensed Victuallers Gazette, waa brought up here to-day, charged under the name of Hiram Walter Patterson, with having embezzled moneys belonging to the Darebin Shire Council, Victoria, in the year 1873. Inspector Buckley said the total amount embezzled was' about £6OO. Prisoner 1 was remanded till 24th July. June 26. The Calender for the Supreme Court Criminal Session commencing on Monday, is unusually light. A private letter frpm the West Coast says that over a thousand feet of tunnelling is completed in the Rangitoto Silver Mine. ■, Specimens of Canterbury marble which were sent to England have been very favorably reported on. Auckland, June 25. Arrived—Dilpulsund, 104 days from London, with seventeen passengers; all well. A special telegram from Wellington reports that Mr Passmoi’e, Superintending Engineer of constructed Railways is about to sever his connection with , the Railway Department of the Colony. Dunedin, June 25. | It has been determined to keep the ■ lists for the Macundrew Testimonial j Fund open for a few days longer, and it j is understood the presentation will be j made on the evening prior to his depar- 1

ture for Wellington, to attend the next session of Parliament. A public meeting to consider the railway question will be held early next week. June 26. Steps are being taken by the directors of the. Peninsula and . Ocean Beach Railway Company and settlers, to "extend the railway to PortobeljO, The cost will be about X 40,000.