TELEGRAPHIC.

Evening Star, Issue 4310, 19 December 1876, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Lorf^^^^QWlSraS™^Governre ut have received a despatch from Villazet, on • he the £ nlgarians to send a deputation to Stamboul to sol sit theßussianoocnpauonof their Province. (

Scarlet Fever at Tlmarn. { «j The crops are uilßiOrfrfliil. but the farmers ire somewhat alarmed by the prolonged rain, the wtather has now cleared up.' I Mr Brigg, C.E., BBSTleen appointed ergineeato the Timara Borough Council at a Balary of L7of a Napicsfiiiggnal Sessions. j NiPiBB, December 19.—1n the Supreme Court yesterday John Langham, convicted on Saturday night of the manslaughter of his wife, was sentenced.to two years* penal servitude. The jury Had serious aspect. He haahicaecTher about the head until aWb&tMßKmmttfa Jftpttlp, and she died four days afterwards. 1 The qinWty Election*, j elections. There appears to have been a bunr'e be&veiK dh« <&ti|n§t6& and «g JBeturnJog Officers as to the nnmber of se< t i fox the ridings. In one case has declared wro candidates wmmaevoßmnUfko be electedbecanse the' Gazette' gave tho riding two seats, whereas the telegram from the Government said only oner seat. The Returning Officer declined to aet ujjjoS 1 the telegram as against a 'Gazette' proolamatipnjg Another case of the kind hns recurred, but the Be- . has not declared the persons nomlnsffiSWbti' a-Tmnglg-Ttr-to the plurality of votes. Some will only allow one voje, and others say up to seven, in accordance with the Provincial Highwa; s Act. ]

[Fbox OT7B owa COBBSSFOBDEBTS.] A J fiuJEfefe&^MltAilrQ^ Wsujbotos, December 18.—The NationwJni uronce Co. hare paid €floo under the first policy an Parker's house recently burnt under what the jary? lawsuit if enforced, but the insurers have accepted TLe Union Bankjroperty. consisting ofan acre and him&MmWZMiM#dm BoulcoA« streets, was sold to day by auction by Bethune and of the Sstb regimont, has been promoted to a clptatacy unattached. , { The City Council have altered their improvements of widening the main wharf km 22ft thro¥g»u*iS JenjW «&«engthening the middle Tby 830 ft. Tenders for the work ore tojbe ArcKtAHD. De^&w'tß.—A. fearful sirugilej -with a bull took fclace yesterday afteinoon, near* the Lake. Shea, tWewuer, was walking in aptfd-g. dock near the bull, accompanied by a man nampa undwith.ut ajiy naevcejtfion, rushed at him afad pitched him. then ensusa, Shea doing * all he could to erode die bonis of the bea#*«— After a time ho laid, hold of a ling in the bull's nostril and rose to ItT lately, split up into bits by tho violence of tie • attack His face iinslfiii mnrli injured. There if a* deep cut over his left eye which had to be sewn dpr excitement has been caused in the Araumu district by the murder of a Bettler.; k >Stto «KJHjM»aMin the lock-up at Papakuro. He is a vicTSus man; sft sin high, and was an old digger. His elothes are saturated with blood. Shonaghan was tied with strong rope, and it has been found that Curtain cut the ropeiin his own house with a knife before the murder, lit is belioved he murdered Sbanaghan bt-fore tyifcg -..himup, Cuxtaiu-unsuoofissfally applied- tosevefel magistrates for a warrant after the murder. Curtain is in great disrepute, and 'would have been lynched if he had made his appeal anco at Araumu. after the murder. The body of Shonaghan US' frightfully beaten about the head. Curtain has fro marks except a slight scratch on his thumb. Be •. rfpreseiited^hsthghadbeaastMckbehin*ttte ear" w Bhariagnto,*an«that anrompifaa ih&eghuf Cons .able Lennin found no mark. Shananlsn Was A general favorite in tto district. 1