LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 71, 23 March 1877, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

[From the Press Agency]. Hokitika, March 22,

The Counties Act has been brought into full The salaries voted to to chairman and clerk amount to £200 per annum each. Dunedin, March 22. The-races commenced to-day. Weather unfavourable during forenoon, but cleared up at one o'clock, when there were 3,000 peopleon the course. The first event was the Maiden Plate, 80 so vs., 1£ miles. Titania and Bribery scracthed , very unsatisfactory affair, as supposed to be controlled by bookmakers : Little Dan, Ist; Fordeagle, 2nd ; time, 3min. 28secs. Cup—soo soys., 2 miles and distance* Punga, Elfin King, Cloth of Gold, Stormbird, Rob Roy, and Spray, scratched. Splendid race: Fishhook, Ist; Hippocampus, 2nd ; Fallacy, 3rd ; time, 3min. ssecs. Invercargill, March 22. Enquiry re the cause of death of Thomas Casserley commenced yesterday, was resumed at ten o'clock to-day, and concluded this afternoon. The jury returned a unanimous verdict as follows:—"That deceased ■came by his death through wilful violence, thatthe'evidence implicates John Monaghan as the cause of such violence." A rider was also added, that the jury desired to express strong disapprobation of the behaviour of Silk and wife, in hastily removing evidences which might materially assist the enquiry tendering to defeat the ends of justice. Grahamstown, March 22. Moanatairi shares went up to £16 last night ; to-day they reached £21 ; a large yield is looked for for current fortnight crushing. About a ton of specimen stone broken down this week, enough to keep a single stamper going. It is said the show of gold is equal to the best show ever seen the Caledonian.