LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 102, 1 April 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Tun Pkkss Amosov.] N A PI Elk March 30. His Excellency the Governor arrived at 4 o’clock to-day. Ho. was welcomed by IPs Worship the Mayor and the members of the Municipal Corporation, together with the Foresters and the Hibernian .Society, and a large number of the general public. The Corporation and the Foresters presented addresses, to which the Governor replied. His Excellency was most hearti'y received. He will hold* a levee to-morrow and attend a hall in the evening. He stays at (lie Criterion ITotob The visit is expected to be only for some ten days. CHRISTCHURCH. March 30. A groat many men left Lyttelton in various vessels, tp proceed to the Palmer diggings. The late favourable accounts have had a great effect on many. Twenty more left in the Invererue for Newcastle', intending to work their way to the diggings from that port. WESTPORT. March 29. Trial Stakes—Nero, 1 ; Walton, 2 ; St of el, 3, Only three started. It was a, splendid race from start to finish. Handicap Hack Race—Polly 1. Puller Handicap—Nero, Ist. Ranker and Kingfisher were entered, but noth were pulled. This was a sell for the public'. The weather was fine. ■ DUNEDIN. March 30. A fire at Caversham last night destroyed Blair's store, also a house and outhouses belonging to Cochrane, brewer. Water was scarce, and beer had to be used to extinguish the flames. Insurance—-Blair’s stock', £2OO in the Norwich Union £4OO in the Victoria ; Cochrane, £SOO in the Victoria. The losers estimate the loss in excess of insurance. Blair kept the Poet office, and the letters were burnt. AUCKLAND. March 30. The Governor will examine White Is ~ land and land at Tauranga. His furthc r

gldV in Auckland will then last until shortly before the meeting of next Parliament. pour young men were to-day etiargeii with assaulting Mr and Mrs Price, in Newton, on Saturday night. Constable Gamble deposed that towaids midnight he saw a crowd lu Newton, in which were the prisoners and (lie Prices. Most of them including the complainant, were under the influence of liquor. Next morning Price came and laid a ehaige. Mrs Prices evidence set out that she and her husband bad been out shopping, and only met but were not with prisoners. She deposed to the prisoners, ,1. Mellomoyle and D. Mellmoyle, first assaulting her husband, and then robbing her of. money and parcel When she attempted to scream she was gagged and struck violently on the head. She was then grossly insulted ]»V one of them, and dragged across the road to a green patch, near which David attempted a criminal assault. Donaldson and Lodge, (wo oilier prisoners detained her husband while the others were assaulting her. Whim she came to she was lying in (he middle of the road She is still suffering from her injuries. Price gave evidence as to tlit.* assault. When his wife screamed ami lie tried logo her assistance, D. Mellmoyle knocked him down and hammered him till he was insensible. Denied that either be or bis wife were drunk. Prisoners were all com toil led. The ease has created great exeitenvnt. V .SYDNEY. March 30. A proclamation has been issued prohibiting the importation ol stock here, except from llie Australian Colonies. The Assembly rejected the motion to set apart a day of humiliation and prayer for rain. NEWS BY THE ALHAMBRA. MELBOURNE. The Age lias accused the Chairman of Committees of being drunk and incapable in the House, and lias repeated the charge. Currency has been given to a most disgraceful scandal, in which the names of well nigh the highest personages in the colony arc freely mentioned. There are all sorts of disreputable scandals about, and p thohs are so pointedly alluded to that they might as well he photographed. Walter Sheridan, the well-known tenor, has been accused of smuggling cigars. Scarlet fever prevalent. Many deaths continue. De Murska has eoiieluded her performances here, and will probably leave for New Zealand next week. The Assembly passed a Bill to establish the Postal Card system, and two of the now Taxation Bills. Fearful drought in Queensland. In the Waivego district the thermometer stood at 112 for three weeks. All the rivers are fast drying up. Cattle dying in all direetio is. In Boiirke there have been no heavy ruins for years.