LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 2, Issue 74, 14 May 1873, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(ax electric telegraph.) (.ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY.) May 13, 1.40 p.m. WELLINGTON. Messrs Pliant/,yn and Beelbam have earl) promised £LS out of tbeir honorarium towards the Wai'-arapa Hospital If £2OO are raised at once the Government will find au equalsum this year. Hie additions to salaries of members of the Executive and Legislature have been carried by large majorities. Mr Bunny gets an additional £2OO, and the official income of the Superintendent is now estimated at over £IOOO per annum. The total addition to executive salaries is £450.

It is expected that the work of the Council will not he concluded before next week as the Education and Highway Acts both remain to be dealt with.

The Council is almost unanimously against the present large Boards. CAMBEIDGB (Via Auckland), Mackay is taking precautions for the safety of settlers. All the bridges are guarded, and the Volunteers are out scouring the country. There is a patrol established between Cambridge and Douglas station.

The Taupo meeting relative to the murder expressed itself strongly against it, and it was agreed to write to the King, urging the delivery of the murderers. It also asked Government for a supply of arms, as war was deemed inevitable unless the murderers are surrendered. It was said at the meeting that Pnrukuru had been instructed by the King to expel the European surveyors and workmen beyond the confiscated land, and that he exceeded his instructions by killing Sullivan. Purukuru pursued William Buckland, and, missing him, he killed the first Pakeha he met. BLUFF. The Albion arrived this morning with the English Mail.

LONDON. May 6. The vintage in the South of France has been wholly destroyed. Gang Forward won the Newmarket Two Thousand Guinea Stakes. Cecilia won the Thousand Guineas Stakes, The Italian Ministry resigned, but reconsidered its decision at the solicitation of the King, Gibbs, Bright, and Co.’s proposed Cape Service dropped.

A motion in the House of Commons asking the Government to declare its views regarding local taxation was negatived. The Germans are evacuating Belfort. Vienna Exhibition opened. The Tichborne claimant asks Government to supply the means for bis defence.