LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1216, 23 January 1886, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Dunbdin, Jmuary 22ad. The Premier is expected to return in town to-morrow evening. The Tarawera has arrived at the Bluff from the Sounds excursion. Nothing occurred to mar the pleasure of the excursionists. Mr J. L. Gillies, having been asked to satisfy the Governor that his absence from his duties as a Justice of the Peace resulted from some reasonable cause, hag replied that the duties of office precluded his attendance, but points out that for years in the country districts he has given his services to the public without fee or reward. From. Wellington two drowning accidents are reported to have taken place | yesterday. At Lower Hutt a boy nine years of age was drowned while bathing ; and a child eight months old got out of a perambulator near the edge of a creek and was also drowned. The Island Bay Cup, which was run at Wellington to-day, was won by Nelson, with Captain Webster second. Nelson, January 21st. Mr William Tomlinson, master of the Auckland College, and son-in-law of the late Samuel Kingdom, of this city, went out this morning with a double-barrel gun intending to shoot gulls. He was accompanied by his little son, aged 12, and in climbing up a hill on the Wakapuaka road slipped, when the gun exploded, and the shot from the charge entered his body. He was shoe right through the heart and fell dead. The body was taken to the residence of his friends, where an inquest was to be held this afternoon. (Renter's Special.) Los don, January 19 th. A deputation of local Irishmen waited upon the Marquis of Salisbury to-day with reference to the Irish question. The deputation urged upon the Premier the necessity of enforcing the existing laws, and deprecated the granting of an I Irish Parliament as tending to the dismemberment of the Empire. Lord Salisbury, in reply, assured the deputation that the Government were mindful of the responsibility placed upon them in dealing with the difficulty, and would not be untrue thereto. January 20fch. Russia has proposed to the European Powers that further action be taken owing to the refusal of Greece and Servia to comply with the Circular requiring them to disarm. Washington, January 20th. Instructions have been issued by the Navy Department for the immediate despatch of a United States man-of-war to Samoa.