LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 167, 23 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PER PRESS AGENCY, WELLINGTON. Wednesday. It is understood that the date upon whieh the Land Tax lists will he doposited for inspection throughout the Colony is the 28tli May next, ami that objections will bo received up to 16th June following. There were 103 failures in New Zealand during the week ending Saturday last. Gleicii, bankrupt, and Cowan, bigamist, are remanded to Adelaide, and leave here under charge of Constable Mack on Saturday next, • George Thomas reports—Produces prices : Flour, Adelaide, ,£l4; Colonial do, £9los j oats,,3s,to 3s 3d, stocks light; bran, lid to Is; wheat, 4s; hams, 9d, very scarce; bacon,>Bd ; maize, 4s 9d; pollard, 7s; potatoes, £5, in demand ; butter, lid to Is. NEW PLYMOUTH. , Wednesday. Eobert McMillard and family and family have arrived at Waitara from Mokau, Ho says lie has given the attempt to live sit Mokau,' and intends to live on his land in the district. AUCKLAND. Wednesday. The Pakuranga Hunt Club will commence its seasonby a meet on Saturday.

The contractors for raising the Taupo have obtained the use of some heavy blocks belonging to the dock, and will make another attempt in a few days,

The Auckland Harbor Board has decided in favor of raising a loan of £5,000. The funeral of'Sergeant-Major Tolly took place this afternoon, and was attended by all tht members of the police force stationed in Auckland and the'suburbs. GRAHAMSTOWN. Wednesday. The special wire system will be extended to Grahamstown on tlio flth o£ noxt month, as the additional, wire from Auckland via Thames and Tamanga will tlcn be completed. A Home for Destitute Children and Old Men's Kefuge is about to be erected here under the auspices of the Borough Council, WANGANUI. Wednesday. • A boy about eight years of age, named | Joseph Traynor, whose parents reside in Feilding, was drowned in the river this afternoon. He had been paddling with two other boys in a canoc, and accidentally fell overboard. OTAKI. Wednesday. The schooner Colleen Bawn, which was "wrecked here a little while ago, was successfully launched in the Otaki River yesterday, under the supervision of Mr Cootes. PATEA. Wednesc.ay.il

Tlia two test cases to decide the dispute tetween certain natives and S. Taplin, as to &e purchase of a quantity of grass seed from the Waimate Maoris, were heard at Hawera yesterday, before Mr Wray, R.M. One case was given' against Taplin-affecting only a few unimportant claims; the other case, which decides the remainder of the claims, was given in Taplin's favor. WESTPORT. Wednesday,

At the inquest on the body of Mrs Crawford, her husband said she got up to come to Mr Sheelians for him at half-past three in the morning, They went home together a nd had no words. She was unusually sober. She afterwards went out the back door, The medical testimony went to show that death was not caused by drowning. Deceased's shawl was tied round her neck, covering her head. A-verdict of " Death from suffocation " was returned, the jury adding that there was no evidence to show how such suffocation was caused, CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday.

A deputation of the unemployed waited upon Mr March, relieving officer,- who consented to lay the matter before the Government. Th<! following reply was received today : —" Aet the men are not newly-arrived immigrants, the Government of the Colony cannot undertake to provide them with work. They should apply to the local authorities, viz,, Mayor, Chairman of Harbor Board, &c. A special meeting of the City Council is called for Friday to confer with the Sydenham Council "as to the advisability of urging upontho Government to subsidise the bodies for the purpose of enabling them to find work for men out of employment.

An inquest on the infant child of Mrs Henham, found dead in bed on Tuesday morning was held. The evidence showed that the child had been accidentally smothered by its mother, and a verdict was returned accordingly.

William Barnard, who was arrested on Saturday 011 a charge of stealing 2GG sheep, the property of a settler at Oust, and was admitted to bail, has absconded. TIMABU. Wednesday. At a meuting of the creditors of Mr John King, auctioneer, held to-day, the liabilities were stated to be—-£15,945 10s 9d secured, and £11,232 unsecured; assets, £50,051. Among the assets are 2,500 acres of land, valued at about £7,000, and £1,400 book debts,

William Bogets was brought up to-day on a charge of obtaining goods on false pretences. It appuars that he went to storekeepers and represented tli&'.t he bad a large number of boarders stayijag- his house, on tlio strength of which he obtained goods to tho value of £66. A few days ai'ter ho sold out and absconded. He was remanded till Friday. DUNEDIK Wednesday.

The body of a man, name unknown, who had been found drowned near Jewitt's Hotel, was brought to the Hospital to-day by the constable stationed at Henderson's Bay. The Tuapeka Times learns from a correspondent that a resident of Roxburgh named Mr J, A. Harris, has recently succeeded, through the death of a friend, to a fortune of LGO,OOO in cash, besides a valuable landed estate and personal property, situated iu one of the eastern counties in Europe, The Waitahuna School Committee, by a majority, dccidod to recommend an alteration of the Education Act, so as to admit of the re-introduction of the Eible into the schools, The Bruce Herald has been resuscitated in a reduced shape, Donald McDonald, the absconding butcher has been committed for trial on a charge of false representation,

A suburban publican to.day was fined forty shillings and costs for selling beer on a Sunday, It is understood that tho! officials at th& various railway stations have received instructions from head-quarte rs,|Cliristchurch, to give |no information concerning railway matters to the Press,

To-night's Star saysTho Press Association has now the mean ness to send out our special cable messages) to its country' constituents and to take ere $t for them being its own." • :• " '