TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 2676, 6 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Monday. Bain fell yesterday very heavily. Lite Mnrdeter Cvrtim To-day Messrs J. S. MacFarlane and Wm. Swanson sent the following telegram to the Minister of Justice: — "To the Hod. C. C. Bowen. Urgent. We are strongly of opinion that in the interests of justice a respite of 7 or 14 days should be ttiven to Curtin to afford an opportunity for getting at the real facta. This ought to be granted. It could do no harm. We are afraid of the man being executed for murder when his crime is only manslaughter. Pray consider this, and reply speedily. J. S. McFaklane, Wm, Swanson. A reply has been received that no hope of respite is to be held out. Test FiringIn the firing by the volunteers to test the army system versus the Volunteer's, the latter had the advantage by a great number of points. TCew Telegraph Station Telegraphic communication was opened with Waiwera to-day. California!! Salman At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society to-day a letter read from Professor Baird, Commissioner of the United States Fisheries, offers a further supply of Californian salmon ova if required. The Sparrow Nuisance A report of the examination of the crops of eleven sparrows showed that the crops of three contained wheat, maize, oats, and grass. The second was empty. Two contained caterpillars. X<ate>t from Samoa The latest from Samoa reports that king George is building a palace to cost 1*3,000, Tii« material is Australian bard

wood. L 1,200 worth of furniture is to be purchased in Sydney for it. Bully Hsyes is at Sataoa with a San. Francisco yacht of 25 t6iß. ■■' AtUvea on Wallis Island, 420 mile^ north west of Levuka, three large Catholic, chapels of Scoria stone are being built under the superintendence of the French Bishop, assisted by three priests and two laymenv^| Flood* at Bljetobeim • Blenheim, Monday. • There are floods here, the water is subsiding very slowly, and it is still raining. Mr Byford and his son started from Opawa bridge in a boat, which was cap* sized, and the boy was drowned. Two men were caught in the willows, and after being there two hours, partially inanimate, were sayed by a volunteer crew in Axiey's boat starting from the railway station. Delug-e a* the Knmsra Kumabi, Monday. Terrible rains fell during Friday and Saturday and the streets were flooded on Saturday morning. The roadway was washed',away at the zig-zag by the rain, and the roadway between the Greenstone junction and the Teremakau was stripped, and Greenstone township all but washed; away. Fooley's butchery and hotel, and j Morgan's cottage were destroyed entirely, / and Davidson's boot- store, and Harris's | hotel partially so. The bridge across , Greenstone creek at the township was I washed away, and also the approaches at i the bridge over Greenstone creek junction.; It will take three weeks to repair the| road between the Grey and S.umara.l Traffic is suspended. The claims round Barker's at the Kumara are swamped. ; Kh.« *VT«»tlMr aad tho Crop* ! Cheistchurch, Monday. : The weather is again very bad. Bain! has been falling heavily since Friday 1 night till this morning. The weather is still threatening. The farmers' prospects look bad. A large quantity of grain is cut, which no doubt will be greatly injured. Later. It has been raining heavily again. Several rivers rose and overflowed slightly, doing great damage to the railway and the crops. The Drainage Board The Drainage Board are taking prompt measures for copying out Mr Carruthers' draining scheme. The Weather Oamaeu, Monday. It was raining heavily all last night, and has continued to do so throughout the day, ____________