LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 246, 26 November 1878, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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[per press agehcy.] Wellington, Nov. 25

In refereence to the O'Connor poisoning case, thfe Minister of Justice caused a reply to be sent to the Mayor, in which he says—" The Government, after careful consideration, see no reason for remitting the. sentence passed on this prisoner. The jury who saw and heard the witnesses believed their statements,and it is not thought their verdict should be set aside." .

A son of F. Mountain, of the New Zealander Hotel, while walking along the beach at the rear of the hotel, found a sealed bottle, which he observed contained papers. On being opened, the bottle was found to contain a paper on which the following words were written : " H.M.S. screw corvette' Firefly, Capt. Harm a Jones, wrecked Nov. 2, 1878, on the Auckland Isles. All lives saved, except three A.B.s and the second engineer. Signed, H. Jones, Commander; H. Lester, First Lieut. Send relief at once, provisions all exhausted, living on raw penguins, the Lord help us. ? ' It is generally believed this is a hoax.

The Divorce Court was occupied today in hearing the adjourned case Digby v. Digby and Alexander, application for a rule nisi. The case was recently heard at Christchurch before Mr Justice Johnston and a jury. The petitioner, a journalist, married respondent, then Miss Comilina Vergilia Pelossi, at St. Kilda, Victoria, in 1865. They afterwards removed to Christchurch, one child being born as a result of the marriage. In 1876, the respondent paid a visit to her mother at Adelaide. She had always had a longing for the stage, and, when in Australia, joined the Wheatleigh Company, under the name of Nellie Daley, and then met the co-respondent Alexander, who is well known on the New Zealand stage, and committed adultery with him. She continued to travel with the company after her return to the colony, and saw her husband at Christchurch, but he then had no suspicion of her unfaithfulness. She left for the North in the company of Alexander, and continued illicit connection with him until her husband heard of it, and instituted proceedings for a divorce. There was practically no defence; a counter charge of adultery was set up, but there was no attempt to prove it. The decree nisi was granted.

New Plymouth, Nov. 25.

A large and influential deputation ■waited on the Native Minister this morning with reference to the holding of the sale of Wahnate Plains at New Plymouth. Mr Sheehan said he would communicate the wishes of the deputation to the Department, but thought -that the sale might be held in Wellington. The deputation also asked that a thousand immigrants might be sent to Taranaki, as well as 250 single girls as servants, as there was great scarcity oi all kinds of labor in Taranaki. This Mr Sheehan said he wo;.ikl attend to, and as it was feared there would not be labor enough to get in the harvest, that some men might be sent here from Otago and the West Coast.

Balclutha, Nov. 25

The Hons. Messrs Macandrew and Fisher, accompanied by Capt. Fraser Thompson, M.H.R., Mr Blair, engineer for the Middle Island, and others visited Balclutha to-day. Ministers received deputations from the Borough Council and County Councils of Bruce and Clutha, the Board of Conservators for Inchclutha, and the River Bank Projection Committeemen. They inspected fully, and expressed much sympathy with the sufferers from the late floods. From what transpired at the interviews, it is believed the Government will carry out river protection works, and the Counties of Bruce and Clutha will unite to erect a bridge, Government giving money in loan for five years without interest. Nothing was decided on with regard to Inchclutha till the engineer repcrts. Luncheon was provided in the Crown Hotel at the expense of the corporation, when the usual toasts were proposed and responded to, Mr MacAndrew and parly left per special train for Dunedin. at 3.30 p.m. Mr Fisher has gone to Tnvercargill.