LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 328, 29 November 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) 11-IVERCARGILL, Thursday The Mataura arson case was proceeded with again yesterday morning. The inspector of Police said he had no further evidence to offer, whereupon the Magistrate committed Francis Wheddou and Cameron for trial, and discharged Donald McKay. Bail was refused, A man named Fred. Nesber was arrested early yesterday morning at the Bluff, charged with obtaining money at Waimate under false pretences. Later in in the day he was charged at the Police Court and remanded to Waimate. WESTPORT, Thursday. A rich reef has been discovered at the Lyell, The County Council have removed their headquarters from Westport to Charleston. NELSON. 1 Thursday. At the tyesleyan Church district meeting this morning, the following resolution was passed That the Conference be requested tn take into its consideration the desirability of affirming a fixed standard of literary and theological attainments, to which all students in training for th»

ministry must attain before entering upon circuit work, DUNEDIN. Thursday. Milton, late librarian of the Atheuamin was committed for trial yesterday for embezzlement. Macrae, a man working on the unemployed section of the Strath-Taieri railway, has been killed by an immense fall of earth. There is a large attendance at the show, but the ground is in a wretched condition owing to the heavy rain, which is still falling. There is a good deal of interest taken in the walking match. Tho weather during the past week has been most unfavorable for the show. Today however it was only showery. The entries were very good, and more numerous to last year. The attendance was fair for the first day. To-morrow will be a public holiday. Owing to the weather no work is being done for the races. The whole of the competitors for the twenty-four hours' walking contest at the Garrison Hall have gone into training, The entries for the steeplechase have been received. TIMARU. . Thursday. Rust has appeared in the crops in Canterbury. An agitation is going on at tbeTemuka for the commencement of. the interior railway,

CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday. Kathleen Fowler, charged with stealing a brooch, value £B, the property of Alice McComby, at Wellington, was remanded to that city for trial. At the adjourned inquest on the Penny children, found dead in their cot some time ago, the evidence showed that Professor Bickerton had failed to find any trace of poison in their stomachs. The ovidence of Dr Ross pointed to suffocation as the only feasible explanation, but the coverlet was shown to be thin and light' and post-mortem appearances were hardly in accordance with the theory of death by suffocation. The coroner regretted thai the evidence failed to show the cause of death, and the jury returned an open verdict. ■

.Mr H. Selwyn Smith has ceased to act as general manager of the N.Z. Shipping Company. AUCKLAND. Thursday. There was a hesvy thunderstorm tonight, and rain fell in torrents the whole evening, HOKITIKA. Thursday, Nothing whatever is known on the West Coast to warraut a rush to Parito, as stated in an extra to the New Zealander, published on Wednesday morning and telegraphed from Wellington to the West Coast Times, GRAHAMSTOWN. Friday. Retorting took place in the Alburnia mine to-day, with a return of 771 ounces of gold. This, added to the previous return, makes 2436 ounces. A dividend is announced, payable next Friday. The books close on Tuesday. Shares are selling at 70s,