LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 935, 28 October 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[fkom our own correspondent.]

WELLINGTON.

r * This Day. A lad named Williams fell down the , hold of the steamer Albion yesterday, but was not seriously injured. A movement is on foot .to establish a home for destitute women. A deputation from the ladies of the Christian Association waited on Messrs Levin and Hutchinson, urging them to assist in the work, as being one of pressing necessity. They promised to give it their earnest consideration. Both ends of the Cook Strait cable are buoyed, but the weatharis preventthe steamer working. A man, named David Mair has been missing for nearly two months, and serious apprehension to his safety are entertained.

CHRISTCHUROH.

This Day. A new weekly paper has been started called ihe Malvern Independent. The Liberal Association have called a public meeting for to-night, to protest against the bidding for power by open bribery, and against the election of a member for Ohristchuroh by a Parliamentary Committee.

DUNEDIN

This Day. An amusing case was heard at the City Police Court yesterday. Captain Charles Clark was charged with assaulting a young girl, named Mary Church, and when the evidence waß taken it turned out he put his arm round her waist, kissed her, and called her a " bonnie wee lassie." The case wbb dismissed. A Chinaman, named AhFoo, charged with forgery, was arrested in Hawke's Bay, and remanded for a week. At the inquest yesterday on the body of John Meldrura, who was killed on the tramway last Friday, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Craig, the Superintending Engineer. The driver was exonerated from blame. The jury added a rider that there should be a turn table on the line, so as to "obviate the necessity of the engine running the reverse way.

NEW PLYMOUTH.

This Day. The castings from the Taranaki iron sand were turned out of mould yesterday, and proved highly successful. The magnets made for Dr. Lemon were perfect.

AUCKLAND.

This Day. Mr. Rowe has sent a telegram to Mr. Sheehan, asking him to resign in conformity with an agreement entered into at the time of the Thames election that if Sir George Grey was not success'-; ful for Ohristchurch, Sheehan would' resign to allow a local man to go to Wellington. • ■• -'■; >-' s A telegram was sent to Mr. Reader Wood- yesterday by a number., of his constituents, endorsing his action of that of Swanson, Oolbeck, and Hurst. Dr. Gilbert of the Thames took some poison by mistake yesterday, and died soon after, medical aid being unavailing. • A meeting of the City West electors is called for to-night to consider Mr. Hurst's defection.

GRAHAMSTOWN.

This Day. A tailings' worker, named Douglas Vaux Kent, was found dead in his residence this morning, shot through the heart. His carbine lay beside him, and he had evidently committed suicide last night. Financial difficulties are supposed to be the cause. He had been in low spirits for some days past. Deceased recently separated from his wife. He has well-to-do relations in Queensland. A Liberal Association has been formed at Ohinemuri, with Mr. G. P. Mitchell as President. A statement in the Star that Sir Sir George Grey intends taking the leadership of the Opposition is giving satisfaction. It is rumored the Government intend calling a Thames man to the Upper House.' The. Mayor is thought the most eligible. Several telegrams have been sent to Mr Sheehan not to mind Rowe's telegram, calling on him to resign.