SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3634, 23 June 1880, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(Peb. Pbebs Association.) Auokund, Tuesday. John Salmon, William Bergin, Alfred Clements, Charles Johnston, Charles Ross, and George Justin, part of the orow of the ship Chile, were charged at tho Police Court this morning with broaching cargo, and remanded till tho 30th, to enable tho captain to ascertain the extent of the depredations. Seventy-threo Mormons from the Soulh and Australia, left in the mail steamer for Utah, under the charge of Elders May and Shreeve. The B.M.S. Australia brought the following passengers for Auckland from Sydney:—Miss Deloitle, Miss Isaacs, Messrs E. Samuel, F. Fitzherbert, W. Weston, Isaacs, L A, Wise; 8 in steerage, and full compliment of passengers through. NEWS FROM NOUMEA. News from Few Caledonia to the 11th instant states that the ship Australian Sovereign, with 400 tons of flour, was wreoßed at Boulari Pass. Madame Spahr, who 'had just been confined, was violated and murdered by a convict, who was subsequently ar rested. M.,Loncamu, a member of the Municipal' Council of Noumea, has been imprisoned for insulting a Magistrate in the exercise of his functions. lour escaped convicts had been recaptured on a boat near Bourail. Wbminoton, Tuesday. Government have received a telegram from the Native Minister which states that tho recent obstruction to road parties by erecting fences was owing to the natives having some cultivations which .the fences were intended to proteot. They were therefore afraid that the road, if carried through the fence, would tempt horses and cattle to trespass on their crops. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Alexander Eddison; brought up on two charges of selling spirits in a less quantity than two gallons, was fined £10 on each charge.

Ohbisichubch, Tuesday.

At a public meeting at Akaroa, a resolution was passed condemning the Property Tai and; advocating a land tax and income tax instead.

DuNEMif, Tuesday.

.' A fire this morning on the premises of Durand, Blanck and Co,, painters, destroyed the store room. . The origin is unknown. The loss is £1400, covered by insurance in the National Office.