TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2280, 6 September 1877, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

■ ■' tv.p ; The New Zealand i&oW&nffli MircaSrtSle •%eVf wl reports, under date London, August 29, that the wool competition is decreasing and the market weaker. Home buyers purchase freely, but tho Continental demand is limited.

Wanganui, September 4. ; IP [tfhl|Harbor Board it was resQjy^d^^ to borrow £100,000 for Harbor improvement. The estimated revenue in fi>e years is £10,600. I The Herald advocates that Picton should be fixed upon permanently as the place for the annual prize firing. The cost of .annually^preparisg j^e ranges would thus bo^iijred^nd the^imopn^ ijided to the prize list making'thV'champioh %eltrx!atrry" a money priza of £200, and the other prizes increased in proportion. Oamabit, September 4. At the R.M. Court yesterday, John Ohalter was convicted of having in his possession a still and other apparatus suijEiblijfJfajr diff|UH)sg puj|fo)Bes,g«^d|»entenced 'tjo ei>f>£-m:6nthß iroprison^'trA T|(»|^pnt was disop,yeredv by/;the|poliC«jSanaJ|«diJrCpll*c^ ot CustomV-in Chkltf^hMfldf WhrcTifiS- rituatißd^ori a farm leased by him at Inch Aimer from ths Hon M. Holmes. Mr O'Meagher defended him, and gave notice of appeal on the ground that the Magistrate suggested and allowed evidence to be adduced to prove Chatter's occupation of house after Mr Balmer, the prosecuting Counsel, bad closed his case.. Auckland, September 4.

Morris Hyman, partner in a wholesale business firm, was remanded en a charge of forging the name of the firm to eight transfers of shares. Naw Plymouth, September 5. ■ Wreckage is reported on the coast between Hawera and Opunake. The mutilated body of a European waß reported as being seen on the Harriet beach by the natives. Search has been made, but it has disappeared; and it is supposed to have been washed to sea, or covered with sand. It is supposed to have been the body of a man who fell overboard from the cutter Fiery C.rpss^^hen pffj'the Sugar* Loaves, on the 7th of Aug.ue&il l! J vblfi ttQ'J ii

TiMAEU, September 5,

A terrific sea has been rolling in all day. The Maori is not tendered again^ She is|to jmakjejspundings about the coast asMilfarß,J?e i'he) prftVtic'i'bility of an entrance to Milford Lagoon.

, At the Magistrates' Court, two young men have beea sentenced tpf thr|e mgnth^-.imprisonment for stealing a tu^ri^ iJEbi se4tei£celisiqj)nßidered to be a harsh one.

; James Bins'ead and Charles Herbert, charged with perjury arising from a civil case (Blythe v. Wads* worth) in the District Court,,w.ere dismissed. • Melboubne, Angust29. ! Protests are raised [against the proposed impost of ninepenoe per head on sheep, as calculated, among other things, to auin.the meat pre^erviog interest. i Thereg^^b>||iii^mor93!aisb| > B^iffip^^ the passengers per Macduff, but they are still in quarantine. At the sale of stud sheen, the.^highent.average for merinoes waV£|S|,7K|?Mg^stM#ilWo »» 270 gaineas, but owing to the drought the condition of the sheep was not so good this year. A fall of earth at the All Nations.mine,,Ballarat, kille^wplmen^np^fiirtellatHiKDill^J, _ i The'weather is Very dry,'only a Tittle rain having fallen, »nd that mostly near the sea coast. The continued drought is very disastrous. The!Mayor'iiiifanoyna'lesß ball !aßt night w«b a brilliW afiKir >.' J'iih;er^%were 1600 visitors present. The Governor waß present.