SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3315, 14 May 1879, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

4 (FROM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ♦' — Hokianga, Tuesday, A Maori named Bawiri shot his wife at Wairoa, near Whangape, in a fit of jealousy. The bullet entered the right side, and is lodged in the body. The women is still alive. The man has oleared into tho bush, and is armed with a gun and a supply of ammunition. AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. (PER S,S, • ALBION,' AT THE BLUFF) —_——«. Melbourne, May 6. There is to he no Birthday Ball, but a large offcial dinner on the 24th. The Minister of Bailway9 is exceeding the large sum of money voted, in making a dock close to tho Melbourno terminus, although it has been pointed out that the work will interfora with Sir John Coode's scheme, He declines to suspend operations. One of the Clydesdalo horses which arrived by the ' Northumberland,' as soon as the vessel reached the pier, was valued at a thousand pounds. Some new buildings are to be erected in Lonsdale-slreet, called Convent Garden's Buildings. The foundation stono was laid last week by Mr W. J. Clark, in the presence of a large concourse. The Governor has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that the Prince of Wales is unable to be present at the opening of Melbourne Inhibition, but hoped to visit I Australia shortly. ( All the places of amusement are doing ( well, especially the Opera Company, i where there is a largo house nightly. i Adelaide, May 6, i Port Auguata Lake in the far .North is i being rushed rapidly. ,