LATEST TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1098, 18 August 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

(from our own correspondent. ) WELLINGTON. This Day. It is stated the Beer Tax will be withdrawn or reduced to three-pence. It is expected that shortly the P. and O. steamers will'be regular traders to Wellington, making it a port of distribution. • ' Forty-nine of the Armed Constabulary on the West Coast being dissatisfied respecting the reduction of ten per cent!, have been allowed to resign, and have been offered a passage in the Hinemoa to bring them away. Tbe Hinemoa will tak;e a relieving party, the Government having abundance of men available as applicants for admission into the force. AUCKLAND. This Day. Colonel Kelly, M.L.C., died at his residence, Ponsonby, yesterday morning. While dressing he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and fell heavily to the floor, dying almost instantly. He was at Church on Sunday and got up yesterday in his usual health and spirits. A ■ A man named Thomas Smith,} .was was charged at the R.M. Court yesterday with evading duty on a gold "watch, which was concealed in a case of Bibles. He was- 'fined £25. NEW PLYMOUTH. This Day. Robert Graham and W. Marshall, arrived from Wellingtan and proceeded yesterday to Parihaka to interview Te Whiti. It is believed they have gone as Ambassadors from the Government to offer their services as mediators. ;r BLENHEIM. \ A . This Day. At a ■ performance of 'the Lynch Family of Bell ringers on Saturday night, one of the ■ Lyn<jhs, while passing off the stage knocked down a large kerosene lamp. He with great presence of mind threw-some costumes over the liiinp, 'and • carried it blazing round to .the back of the stage -. and threw ib outside where it exploded.