LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVI, Issue 994, 28 November 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(From our own. Cor respondent,) Dunedin, Norember 27th. Mr Vincent Pyke iB interesting himself about the stoppage of works on the unemployed Bection of the Otago Central line, and has got up a requisition to the Mayor to call a public meeting. The Mayor has agreed, aud the meeting will be held on Thursday evening. The s.s. Victory, which left Plymouth for Port Chalmers on October 27th, has 334 immigrants, and the Bhip Trevelyan, from Glasgow, will bring 28. For the Mayoral election to-morrow, Mr Street is decidedly the favorite. A great deal of interest is taken in the election this year. The Governor has decided, after careful consideration of the Longhurat case, that, in hia opinion, Longhurat was guilty of the offence upon the girl Adams, and that his release would be a grievous miscarriage of justice. A very large number of entries have been received for the Tapanui agricultural show on Friday next, giving promise of its being the largest yet held there.

(Per United Press Association.)

Nelson, November 26th. Two foreign seamen belonging to the barque May Queen, which was lying at the anchorage, left that vessel during last uight on a raft constructed of two spars, each 10ft long, with a small hatchway lashed across them, and they took with them a life-buoy, This morning the lifebuoy was picked up under the cliffs, and the raft was found on Boulder Bank ; but

neither of the men, whose names were Mavtin Oslenand Johann Biermann, have been seen or heard of. It is thought they reached land. Oamaktj, November 26th.

One of the host of larrikins who for some time back have been a pest in the town was, to-day, charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court with cutting a hole in the circus tent on Saturday night, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

(Renter's Special.) Sydney, November 26th.

Five French eaoapees from New Caledonia, coining to Sydney in a schooner which they had seized, suffered great privations on the voyage from Noumea. Two others who started with them died before making land. ,

Melbourne, November 26th.

Messrs Ooldsborough and Co. (Ltd.) have published a telegram dated London, November 22, reporting that the wool market is firm, and that a fair demand is being experienced at the present series of Colonial sales. Good crossbred wool is rather higher ; coarse crossbred is neglected, and difficult of sale.