LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1090, 9 August 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

-.; ♦ ' . (from our own correspondent.) DUNEDIN. This Day. An inquest on the body of Mrs. Young was commenced on Friday and 'was adjourned. Nothing to throw light on the murder has been ascertained. The police are after two -Chinamen said to have disappeared on the morning of the murder. a- BLENHEIM. 'i This Day. The body of Thomas O'Sullivan was found in Taylor Kiver yesterday. The stream is only three feet deep, and drowning is believed to have been premediated. He had been in business here as an auctioneer^ aijLd? filed his schedule three weeks ago. *He leaves a wife and several young children. *■.. ■• %'■ WELLINGTON. ' ' .This Day. Mr. -'Hunter, late M,H.R., died on Saturday. Sir Hercules Robinson has received . intimation of his appointment as Governor "of the ' Cape, vice Sir Bartle . Frere. >'"' Sir Arthur Gordon, the present Governor of Fiji, succeeds to the Governorship, but Sir Hercules will not await his arrival as he is compelled to leave almost immediately via Melj bourne and England. !■.. Lady Robinson goes this week to ' Australia to see her daughter there. | A man, named Backstraw arrested on the wharf on Friday night with 321 b of tobacco in his possession, was fined on Saturday £50 or 6 months imprisonment. . , ..• , • >. - ; AUCKLAND. This Day. ■I • Mrs. Outhwaite has beenrawarde'cD £1650 for damage caused to her "-property by the Kaipafa Railway running through a portion of it. A man, named Musgrave accidently fell off the platform of the. railway at Onehunga on Saturday night, just .as the train was leaving for Auckland. The train passed over his foot, severing it from the ankle. He was brought to the Hospital at Auckland. Musgrave is a seaman 30 years of age, and believed to be sober at the time of the accident. . A carpenter, named Thomas Scaly, 33 years, slipped on Saturday , from a scaffold on a house in" Grey' Street, on which he was working and .fell on liis head On the pavement. He was picked up unconscious- -and— taken to ,the hospital. • y^ : p^ «•»'/"■ ''■ J OHRISTCHUROtt' " -~~ TChis Day; - The Collector' of Customs refuses.to give up the papei-s of ...the Annabel until the men who refused to go to sea in her are paid. "OEfiermeh have been shipped in their' place, and the vessel is waiting for her papers in order to sail. . •

The reduction in the police force in the whole of the Colony will be 63 men and officers. In the North Island 42 will ba dispeaced with, and 21 in the south island.