TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5226, 19 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[FbOM THB FBBSS AOBNCT.} Nbw Plymouth, Nov 17. The Mayor remits another £2OO to London to-day lor the Indian Famine Fund, making £IOO from Taranaki. Xhe country lists are not all in yet. Sibbobnb, Nor 17. The total loss by the lire is estimated at £15,000. ' Wellington, Nov 17. The only nominations for the Vajor to-day were Joe Dransfield, formerly Mayor, and Gedrge Elliott Barton, Mr Hutchison, the late Mayor, having withdrawn from toe contest. It is stated on good authority that the value o! property destroyed by the Gisborne fire is equal to the total amount of fire insurance premiums paid to the various Insurance Companies at Gisborne and Napiar during tbe last two years. The Mayor has received a communication from Government to tbe effect that in future Ml sums forwarded for the Indian Famine Belief Fund will-be telegraphed to London free of oharge. £2OOO in all has been telegraphed home from here. An attempt is being mads to establish a deep sea fishing company. It is intended to carry on trawling at Port Underwood and to have a during and smoking shed Ibere. Dunedin, Nor 17. - The total contributions to the Famine Fond to date are £3BIL The Times strongly urges SirJ. Vogel's reappointment to the A gent-Generalship, saying it would be a graceful as well as a just act to stand out in pleasant contrast to the conduct of late Ministers, who, raised by Sir J. Vogel’s hand and nurtured by him into the similitude of Ministers, threw him over whea it served their purpose, and now are prepared to sacrifice him wholly in order to forward their service of sycophancy to Me Stafford. SUPPOSED WIFE-KILLING IN DUNEDIN. At the adjourned inquiry touching the death of Ana Harper, msdim evidence attributed the death to a blow on the head with a weapon, and said that death could not have resulted from a falL In deceased’s house the police found a piece of iron on which were several hairs. The room was saturated with blood. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the husband. AUSTRALIA. (Pet s.s. Bingarooma via Bluff). Hilboubnb, Nov. 13.

The Council is unlikely „to get much from the Governor on the psweenteticn of their addrew re payment of member*. . The reply is already know a, although the adidnea will not be presented until to-day, and theeffeotof itu that the Governor will be guided by the adrioe ofhU Miniileii. . Oontiderable progress baa been made with the tariff in Way* and Mean*, but the Bill ooniidered bjtbe Assembly oo Xhuredey vac quit# different in 'many reepeota from the one previously eubmiUed. It ie the intention of Government to appoint a Boyol Oommiuim to consider the tariff during the reoeie with the -Hew of Hearing earn* permanence. The Spring n« meeting concluded on Saturday. It was a grand day, and the ladiee came out in force,, in eoetumee that were elegant and varied. The eeUling yesterday was roaroely in favour of the bookmaker*. Joe Thompaon paid away £21,000 in four beta alone, including £IO,OOO to the owner of Chester. So fsr, however, there have been no defaulter*, all debt* haring been promptly met. Daring the gunnery practice by the Kelson in Hobson's Hay on Friday, a shell bounded from the wetor on shore af St Hilda, went through a workshop luckily onoeoopied at the time, owing to the holiday, then pro* a quarter of a mile, and made a large bole in the brick wall of a boose. It waa extremely fortunate no one was killed or injured. “ : ’ J On Sunday morning a gatekeeper, named Harris, and his wife were killed by a pawing train on the North Bastera lice before they could open the gates. In an action brought by Mr T. L. Lewis against the proprietors of Punch, a verdict was given for the defendant. Le»y, the cornet-player, is a passenger by the Biogarooma. He, yesterday, died hie schedule, in order to obtain release tram actions brought against him by professionals.