LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 957, 22 November 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. This Day. The funeral of the victims of the late tragedy took place yesterday. Archdeacon Stock performed the burial service. In the Court of Appeal on Thursday, a rule for striking Arthur Tullock Nation, solicitor, off the rolls was made absolute. A secondjmeeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association will be held m Nelson on March 2nd. At a largely attended meeting of tobacconists last evening, it was decided to raise the price of tobacco and cigars m consequence of increased duties. AUCKLAND. This Day. At the R.M. Court yesterday, Albert Halson was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for sending a letter to Samuel Coombes demanding money on pain of making certain exposures. Mr. Sheehan, younger brother of the late Native Minister, died yesterday of congestion of the lungs. At the Artists Exhibition there is a water color painting by a Waikato Native named Te Keti Ngatakai. It represents a Spanish lady playing a guitar, and is not devoid of talent. A stowaway on board the Penguin, named Andrew Fahey, was fined £5 or two months' imprisonment. GRAHAMSTOWN. This Day. Alburnias closed yesterday at £3 10s. NEW PLYMOUTH. This Day. James Hill, steward of the Hospital, was charged at the R.M. Court yesterday with rape on a patient named Johanna Harinel, a German woman. The case was adjourned. Accused, it ia said, has witnesses, who will prove an alibi, and patients on rooms adjourning assert they heard no noise. CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The new tariff has been favorably received on the whole, but regret is expressed that duties on tea and sugar are not reimposed. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, it was decided to ask the Government to send a cablegram to England to ask the English Government to send a vessel from the nearest station to the Crozets and other Islands, to look for the Knowsley Hall, Bhip, now long overdue.