COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XI, Issue 2865, 28 February 1877, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

[per press auency.] Wellington, Feb 27. The Hinenioa with the Governor and suite arrived at nine o'clock this morning. The steamers Northumberland, Sloosyth, and Wampoahave arrived at London. Dunedin, Feb 28. The City Council has decided to adopt parts 12 and 13 of the Muuicipal Act of 1876. Mr Pearson has issued a summons against the Corporation of Dunedin, Its being the Local Board oi Health for the city. He sues the defendants for that they, on the 22nd January, 1877, contracted with him to tend and nurse his children for a rewaid, yet they so negligently and improperly kept, tended, and nursed his children, that he suffered great loss and harm therefrom . He claims £20 damages. The maLch committee last evening J selected the Otago 18 to play the English Eleven. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. PER ALHAMBRA. There has been some little stir in tho political arena, owing to Berry's charge ot corruption against the Speaker ajttd the Chairman of Committees during

the Stonewall period. Sir Charles McMahonhas consulted Higginbottom and Frances thereupon. Berry forwarded what was termed an apology to Sir Charles, but stated that what he meant to convey by corruption was that undue influence was threatened and used by Ministers over the Speaker's decision. This has brought up the Ministers, who have written to the Speaker asking for an explanation as to how they influenced him. So the matter at present rests. The Chairman of Committees, it is said, declines to receive the doubtful apology.

Very severe thunderstorms were experienced last week.

A young man was killed in Elizabeth Street by lightning. Three other deaths from the same cause have taken place in the country. Seveial narrow escapes ore recorded.

The rainfall as yet is scarcely sufficient to allay all the apprehensions of drouth, while in New {South Wales matters are very serious, especially in the back country, whore sheep and dattle are dying by thousands, and somo stations hero are to be abandoned for want ot water.

Samuel Hamsden, who was buried yesterday, is reported to have left a large fortune. Ho began life as a stonemason in the early days of the colony.

Sir William Gregory is still the guest of Governor Bowen. Since his stay in the colony he has visited nearly all the public institutions and every place of interest.

Capt. McMeckan, of the firm of McMeckan, Blackwood and Co., was a passenger to England to-day by the mail steamer.

The Assam, with the Suez mail, is expected to reach Glenelg on the lsb March.

A telegram received to-day states that Sir William Jarvis, the present Governor of the Straits Settlements, is coming out to report on the defences of the colony.

Wheat has been sold to-day, up to 6s Bd. Sugars aro advancing. Hennessy's case brandy commands higher rates.

PER SCHOONER ST. KFLDA AT GREYMOTJTH. Melbourne, Feb. 36. Commercial news unimportant. A South Australian loan of halt a million has been floated in London at £97 9s Od.

A man named Norman and his son wore killed by lightning at Wedder burn. The (loath is announced of the onlyson of Frank Henty, A strip of country at Hamilton, fifty miles by twenty-h've,has been devastated by fire. A party of Russian Mining Engineers aro inspecting the Victorian goldfields, but they are very reticent as to what they are about. The Stevensons have abandoned their suit against the Government on account of the impossibility ot getting at the Customs authorities. The Argus says the affair is very unsatisfactory.