LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1066, 8 April 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[FKO.M OUR OWN CORRISSPONIIBNT.] WELLINGTON. This Day. An Ice Company has been formed here. In accordance with the recommendation contained in an ad interim report, the Native Commissioner, Mr. Paris, has been instructed to proceed at once with a survey of the reserve awarded to Honi Pihama, and also cut a front survey line of reserve attached to Ngatiruanui tribe. The* Government have received telegrams to-day to the effect that Mr. Paris has made a commencement of the work. It is probable Parliament will be called together for the despatch of business on the 26th of May. AUCKLAND. Thia Day. The German warship Bismarck left Sydney for Auckland last Saturday. At the Supreme Court yesterday, Walter Radcliffe was acquitted of the charge of obtaining a marriage certificate from the Registrar tinder a false declaration. Five true bills were returned against A. C. Young for larceny of public money. A party of Thames visitors went to Kawau on Tuesday afternoon. They were met by Sir George Grey aud Mr. Seymour George, and were heartily welcomed. Sir -George was in excellent health, and walked for miles over the Island, pointing out places of interest and calling attention to rare plants and flowers, many seeds of which, as well as plants, were given to visitors. Sir George Grey stated his intention to leave in a few weeks for Canterbury and Invercargill, having received numerous invitations to address the electors of the Sou them constituencies. NEW PLYMOUTH. This Day. The Minister of Public Works and Mr. Blackett, C.E., arrived yesterday by train from Stratford. DUNEDIN. Thia Day. The Civil Service Commissioners commenced their sittings yesterday, and examined Mr. Grant, General Manager of Railways, and Armstrong,the Locomotive Inspector. A five-roomed wooden house, owned by John Adams, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. There was the only servant girl in the house at the time, and she can give no intelligible account of the origin. INVERCARGILL. This Day. At the Police Court yesterday, a boy named Cox, was charged with feloniously slaying another boy named Robert Curtis, at Wallacetown. The case was remanded. Louis Schowell was charged with discharging a pistol at his wife. The pistol burst in his hand, but the bullet inflicted a wound on his wife's forehead ; but not of a dangerous nature. The act is attributed to jealousy. The case was remanded for a week. At a meeting of the Borough Council yesterday, it was stated the credit balance at the Bank was £612,999.