LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 34, 24 December 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

■ ■-■-■-wnni mva (PER PttESS AGENCY.) [Herald Special—By Teleqraßi.] Napier, Monday, 5 p. m . Karaitiana's illness has affected liia head. A strait waistcoat was put

on him yesterday, uuu ho was romoved from the Crlt.riou, owing to tho noise he made attracting a cion'd To Wananga is likely t ) cease. A poll is being taken to-day upon the £70, C00 loan question. Du.vEnrx, Monday, G.- r >s p.m. At a meo'ing of the Amalgam itcil Carpenters' ai.d Joiners' Society, the following re.Holu ion was coined:— ■ That wo view with alarm tin con-; tinned influx of Chinese, and will ; heartily co-operate with our fellow- J men in Wellington to put a stop to it; ! and that a fine of £50 per head bo j imposed on all captains of vessels bringing Chinese to New Zealand. 'J he evidence in the ca-e of Stanford v. Gillies and others concluded this evening. The counsel did not ! address the jury, and a verdict was returned for plaintiff, subject to the law of the case* being iu his favor. At Trinity Wesleyan Church, the Bev. William Morloy gave a denial to the statement that nearly the whole of the Wesleyan Ministers in New Zealand resisted the itinerant system of that Church. A small piece of ground in Georgestreet has been sold at the rate of £60,000 per acre. Wellington, Monday, 5 p.m. It is probable that at the commencement of the New Year an alteration will be made in the running of Young's line of coaches between Hawera and ISew Plymouth. Instead of going round the old beach road, the coaches will run from Hawera to j Ingle wood by the mountain road, thus reducing the actual coaching from 80 miles to 28. According to the piojected time table, the mails will leave Taranaki at 11 in the morning on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and return mail arrive on alternate days.