TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 3898, 17 December 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PEB TRESS ASSOCIATION '» SPECIAL WIRE.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The appointment of the Hon. Mr Rolleston to he Minister of Mines nnd Justice, aud the Hon. Mr Dick to be Minister of Education is gazetted. The newly elected Mayors have been gazetted Justices of the Peace. No satisfactory tender having been received for the purchase of thc Evening Chronicle, publication of that journal has been suspended. The witnesses in the Opunake murder case returned hy the Hinemoa this morning. Itis stated Warepa, the native committed for trial for murdering his wife at thc Chatham Islands, once resided in Wellington, having come from Taranaki, ai.d that he belonged to the same tribe as the condemned native Tuhi, and is also related to him. HAWERA, Thursday. At a sale of confiscated land on the Waimate Plains to-day, all offered — about 0000 acres — was sold, and realised over £38,000, or an average of £6 13s 7d per acre. The purchasers represented a good class of intending settlers. Tlte sections on deferred payments — about 2000 aeres — averaged £7 2s 4d per aero. BLENHEIM, Thursday. At the Supreme Court to Jay, before the Chief Justice. Emanuel Ambrose Simpson, for horse stealing, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. On another charge, stealing a saddle and bridle, the same prisoner received six months' hard labor. In the case Earle v. Knight, contractor, defendant, did not appear, and a verdict for £400 bs 7d was given against him. The long-standing alleged libel case, Griffiths v. Johnson, late proprietor of the Express, will be heard to-morrow. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. There was a good attendance at the anniversary sports to-day — reckoned at some 12,000 people. The weather was fine, but windy. The various events were well contested. DUNEDIN, Thursday. All the Australian cricketers will he able to visit New Zealand. The team will leave Melbourne on llth January. Sir F. D. Bell was a passenger to Melbourne by the Te Anau to-day on his way to England. Sufficient inducement has offered to enable the Union Compare to continue their usual excursion to the West Coast Sounds. Either the Tararua or Penguin will be put on, according to the number of passengers.