LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 908, 30 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. This Day.. A birth of triplets occurred iieie on Saturday. ' ' ' ",' dw lixoelleucy, oh being iu&nned ot it for warded iiuinodiit Ay the royat b >unty ot tin ee guineas. The ohildie" uieU yeatetday uionung. lb|»8 ivpori-cd that tin inquiry will b. neid'uito the Govtiiitiutiiii expenditure at Uie Lite ejections. Tue New Zedlander advocates reimp.'Sitiua at duty ou timber, remarking uhitt tile Government made a mistake m taking it otf. AUCKLAND. ...'.;. : This.Day. Matters are becoming more serious, at the Upper Thames. , . The officer m charge it the telegraph station at Miranda, is stated to be m communication with the authorities at Wellington as. to the protection of his. wife and family; Other setters "also are alarmed, particularly at Te Aroha, and have requested protection <>f the C"iistabuUry from Sub-Inspector Kenny;* It is proposed to get up a requisition to the Mfiyif of the T-haui-a to call a public uie.itiug ti discuss the aif uitioji. A meeting whs -lied on Saturday of journeymen coach- builders to petition Parliament for protection against Ameri can importations <>f carriages, buggies etc.. - 1 GRAH AMSTOWN. This Day. J-loini Nahe has issued his address .to rho Phame* elector* ••tferi i% himself >.s acxndid it^i providing the candidature of a .Vlaon w uld be m 'ffensive to t ie Europeans. He w<»uM if elected, faithfully «up,iort Sir (le-irgn Gray's policy. Mr. Puckey left yesterday for Wai liiuton to consult the Government on Nitive Affairs at Ohiue nuri. Tie Sncretafy of the Auckland O-mal 0 niniiitee .has arrived lice to •••'iisult the various oimlidatea res;»eoting.H -rHHiniUt mala for the unopposed e'u n of Sn- Goorgd Grey and Shoehiu CHRISTdIIUROR. This Day. It his been HBcerta : n<*d that some of the men gang to Weka Pass ostensibly as U'ieui|iloye<l, r rest, th.ne one night, 'and then tto to tiud employment on stations, thus saving railway and coach fare. At pivsent there are. 330 men on the railway wwrka, and provision has been m <de to employ 200 more. The men are making s^x shilling a day. The first bales of this season's clip of wool were received at Kaiapoi last balurday. . A child four years old, a son of Mr. Huberts at Rliod s Swamp, was drowned on Sunday night m a drain Containing two* f et of water, while playing about. . William Miggins was fined m a a nominal sum yesterday for throwing kernsine upon William Laudford, and trying to set li^ht to it. The affair occurred during the eleotions, and Miggins had published an apology. Efforts are being made to float a company for starting a new evening paper here. The capital i* to be £10,000, m ten pound shares. It will base its claim on public support on the ground that it intends to be independent of all political parties. The question of holding a new Volunteer review m Christohuroh is being agitated.