LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1041, 14 May 1884, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[From our own Correspondent.) Dunedin, May 13th. , To-day has been almost oppressively warm, and it is quite sultry this evening. Captain Edwin predicts" a heavy gale. Mr Rees (the lawyer) has decided to contest the East Coast seat against Sir Julius Yogel at all hazards. Bishop Moran writes to the " Star " in regard to the accusation made against Catholics of not supporting the Benevolent Institution. He asserts that proselytising went on amongst the children there, which haa been hia reason for not contributing. Mr W. N. Blair was presented with an address and a purse of 200sovs. this afternoon. I hear it rumored, on what I believe is good authority, that the " " Morning Herald " will shortly be turned into an evening paper; (Per Press Association.) Auckland, May 12th. I Barry and M'Donnell, who had been I prospecting for gold at Tuhua and were ; arrested by the Natives, have arrived here. They state that after their capture by the Natives their specimens were taken away from them. The Natives then bronght them over to the valley of the Waipa, where, after a conference with Wahanui, they were allowed to depart, and came on to' Auckland. They say that there is no doubt that rich reefs exist at Tuhua. A recent cablegram stated that Thomas Hugh Shortland had been arrested for the murder of his wife at Plymouth. It is 1 surmised here that the man is a son of Dr Shortland, formerly Colonial Secretary. Hugh Shortland was a law student here, and left for England last July. His father who.reßides here, was not aware, of his marriage. Wellington, May 12th. , Lottie Wilmott, well-known throughout the colony, died at the Hutt on Thursday last. She had been ailing for some time.

The funeral of a child of one of the members of the Salvation Army took place this afternoon. The procession was headed by the Salvation Army band, followed by the soldiers, and " Hallelujah lasses " and children. The ceremony was quite novel here, and was witnessed by a large number of spectators. Nelson, May 12th. A young man named Robert Leather-, wood, aged 24 years' fell down dead at Richmond at 7.30 this morning whilst washing himself. Heart disease is the cause. No inquest was thought necessary. He was a married man, and leaves a wife and one child..