LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 890, 15 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OU& OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] NAPIER. This Day. The following is the complete returns for election of a member for the Eastern Maori Electoral District : — Tomoana, 1094 ; Hans Tapsell, 982 ; Matua, 841 ; Potae, 297. Majority for Tomoaoa, 110. WELLINGTON. This Day. At the preliminary inquiry into the abandonment of the schoonsr Laurel, evidence was given that she was not abandoned until it was no longer safe to remain on board. When the Captain' and crew left her, the water was rushing over the deck, and nightfall was .at hand, and a gale threatening. A Mrs. Myers, at the flutt, when paying a pedlar fur a pair of earrings she bought from him, incautiously exposed a lot of money m a little box. The pedlar remarked she seeuiel to have plenty of money, and wanted to know where she got it all. Mrs. Myers locked the box, and put it aside from the pediar's presence. About 7.15 p.m., Mrs. Myers went out, leaving the door locked. When she returned she had occasion to go the cash-box, aud found it had been forced, and the contents amounting to fifteen sovereigns stolen. The constable, who arrested the pedlar, found on him a pair of strong pinchers, whiuli corresponded with marks on the box where it had been broken open. The Chronicle asserts that Mr. Jackson intends to petition against Mr, Mason's return on the ground of bribery and intimidation. The Victoria Loftus Company have been playing a pieoe at the Theatre Royal, called "On the Sly," which all the papess unite m condemning as being indecent, and the Post has refused to insert any more of the Company's advertisements. The football match Nelson v. Wellington was plajrtftl on Saturday, and won -by Wellington scaring four touchdowns to nothing. AUCKLAND. This Day. The Ba,y of Islands Steam Navigation Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 20 per oen. t per annum. A Portgue&e man, named Bolevy, has been arrested at Russell on a charge of indecency. CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The Grand Lodge Session of the American Order of Oddfellows will be held m the course of this week. Diptheria of a very malignant type has broken out at Prebbleton. Three cases have proved fatal m one family. The foreman of the West Christchurch Fire Brigade has just completed a model of a fire escape which, whilst inexpensive, proved highly effective. DUNEDIN. This D.iy. The remains of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and children, and four persons unclaimed by relatives or friends, were interred m the cemetery on Saturday. The procession was one of the largest ever seen here, and the crowd at the cemetery was immense. A deputation from the unemployed waited on the Mayor on Saturday, asking that a large number of laborers and skilled artizans were quite uualile to obtain employment though prepared to do any work. The Mayor said the Corporation would do all m its power to provide work. The Harbor Board would commence a half tide wall m about a fortnight, and as soon as the Windsor section of the Oaniaru Livingstone Railway was commenced it would give great relief. A meeting of the unemployed will be held to-night. GRAHAMSTOWN. This Day. The tribes of Hauraki have given their decision, leaving the Government " as you were." They tell the would-be assassins to be good boys for the future, or they will be handed over to the law, but seem to have no intention of handing them over now, although pressed by the Native agent. The Native Minister has been communicated with, but by the time any instructions can be received from him, the culprits will have disappeared and so another farce will have ended.