LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 913, 6 October 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. •This Day. The Supreme Court sittings opened to-day. The Maori prisoners from Taranaki are down on the calendar for trial ; but it is expected that their counsel will apply m the course of the day for the postponement of the trial, to which the Crown Prosecutor will assent, provided it takes place before the end of the year. AUCKLAND. This Day. The Maori Haka Troupe, en route for •Sydney, gave an entertainment on Saturday night, consisting of hukas and j dances. The house was crowded. The divor engaged to pick up the plunger m the Thames Big Pump, did not succeed. The influx of water will have a damaging effect 'on mining operations. GRAHAMSTOWN. This Day. News of the defeat of the Government created a great sensation here, and ib is now thought certain that Mr F. A. Whitaker will stand for the Thames. A fire broke but at four o'clock on Saturday morning m a cottage m Fenton Street, Parawai, belonging to Mr Savage, but occupied by a buslnnan named Davies. He was away at the time, and his two daughters were the only inmates. They had a narrow escape of their lives. They were roused by a passer-by who saw the flames, and they had barely time to escape with a few clothes. OHRISTCHURCH. This Day. On Friday night, a gentleman named May, was driving home with his wife, m a buggy, when he was stopped by a man who demanded his money, and fired two shots, one grazing May's shoulder. He jumped down and closed with the highwayman, and threw him down. A person happened to pass m a trap and went to the police-station for assistance, returning with Detective Benjamin. Meanwhile May had stuck to his man, who turned out to be a young fellow about 18 years of age, named 'Pillow. He had a six-chamber revolver on him, two chambers of which had been discharged ; also a dagger knife about a foot long. Fourteen revolver cartridges were found m his pocket, and a mask. At his father's house, the detective found concealed a bag containing Japanese weapons, recently stolen from the Museum. He was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, and remanded for a week. A fierce south-west galo was blowing all Saturday, and throughout the night. Yesterday it lulled, and it is now fine.

A German, named Scott, living m a lane off Litchfield Street, East, dragged Jiia wife out of the house by the' hair of her head on Saturday night, and hit her on the head with a bottle, inflicting a dangerous wound. She was taken to the Hospital, but Scott had cleared out, and has not yet been captured.