LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1276, 21 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

.[FROM 0(711 OWN' COKRK.SI'ONDKNT.] WELLINGTON. ' This Day. Tho total amount of the Property Tax received up to Saturday was ,£121,519. AUCKLAND. This Day. Dr. ami Mrs. Harvey, master and matron of the Home for Neglected Children, have written to the Committe, asking a reconsideration of the recent notice terminating their engagement. W. Thorne applied to Judge Richmond for authority under the Fraudulent Debtors' Act to prosecute John Puvkell an absconding debtor. The object of the application he urged might be paid out of the funds set apart for the purpose. His Honor deferred the consideration of the application, as he had a great repugnance to acting in a case in which he might have to try the prisoner. The Orakei Native Parliament is exciting very- little interest. Tn all the typhoid cases in the Hospital the patients are convalescent, and no new cases have been admitted. DUNEDIN. This Day. It is rumoured that Jones, of the Grand Pacific Hotel, who was reported a month ago to have committed suicide at Ocean Beach, has been seen in Melbourne. William Ernest, Borough Clerk at Palmerston, has been committed for trial for embezzlement. The trustees of the Kaitangata Relief Fund have paid away £1/110 during the year to sufferers, and carried forward £400. A boy named William Foster, aged eight years, died in the Hospital on Saturday from fracture of the skull caused by a kick from a hoi^e. He

was playing in a paddock at Forbury, and whipped the hors^.wit^ a switch when it struck out aad kicked him. CIIRISTCfItIRCH. This Day. ' Entries for tho Rain and Ewe Fair closed on Saturday afternoon. Over 1 GOO entries were received, and the fair promises to be a ff#ut success. Ah Poo, Chinese coolf of^fche barque Mabel, was lined £M. at- Lyttelton R.,M. Court on Saturday for atteinpting to smuggle four boxes of cigars.