LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1341, 1 June 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] [BBUTBB’B SPECIAL TBLBSBAMS TO THE PBBBB AGINOY.] London, May 30. In the match, Australians v. Yorkshire, when stumps were drawn, the latter had a total of 72, and the Colonels had lost four wickets for 87. < AUSTRALIA. Sydney, May 31. Brandy, kerosene, rice, tobacco, sugar, and candles are unchanged. New Zealand wheat 5s 2d to 5s 3d ; New Zealand oats, 4s 6d. Adelaide, May 31. Wheat, 5s 6d ; flour, £l2 to £l3. INTBRPROYIN OIAL ■ [PBB PBBSB AGENCY.] Auckland, May 31. The Education Board to-day resolved to grant pound for pound to all libraries coming within the meaning of the Act. The Auckland Institute receives £258 ; the Mechanic’s Institute, £175; sixty country libraries receive aid. (New Plymouth, May 31. The “Herald” to-day says Rewi has arrived at Mokau with the Maniopoto chiefs on the way to Waitara to meet Sir GK Q-rey and Mr Sheehan. William King, of Waitara, will be present. Rewr says this meeting will end the troubles between the two races, but keeps dark as to his intended proposals till the Ministers meet him on the 21st, He intends to expose the doings of some natives who deserted the King party; also of some Europeans whose actions tended to create bloodshed during the Taranaki war. The Harbor Board appointed the Bank of New Zealand agent for raising the £200,000 loan, and debentures to that amount were lodged with the bank to-day for sale in London.

Napieb, May 31.

The funeral of the chief, Te Hapuku, took place to-day, and was very largely attended. The banks, public offices, and a good many places of business in Napier were closed. A special train carried passengers free to Te Hariki, the late chief’s pah. The Napier Volunteers mustered in pretty strong numbers, and proceeded in the special train to take part in the funeral. On arrival of the train it was greeted with waving of handkerchiefs and lowering of flags, with loud exclamations of welcome. A number of fully armed natives in semi-nude war attire, met the Volunteers and conducted them into the pah. At the meeting house a telegram was read by Mr White, Native interpreter, expressing the regrets of Sir GK Q-rey and Mr Sheehan at being unable to attend, and conveying their sympathy with the Natives and the tribe of the deceased chief at the loss they had sustained. The funeral service was read by the Rev. Samuel Williams. There was a good deal of wailing and lamentation by the Natives. Wellington, May 31. The Appeal Court heard the reserved Crown case, Regina v Barnsley, convicted of forging a money order for £lO, purporting to be through the Telegraph office. Sentence had been postponed pending the hearing of the case by the Court of Appeal. The point was raised in the Court below that prisoner could not be convicted because the forgery was not that of an order for payment of money, but only of a telegram of an order. The Court held that the document could not be regarded as original, and the conviction must therefore be quashed. In consequence of a number of minor kerosene accidents having occurred since the one which caused the death of a girl, the police have employed men who go about in plain clothes and purchase samples of kerosene at the stores of the different dealers, for the purpose of ascertaining where the dangerous oils now sold come from.

Dunedin, May 31. The vital statistics for May show —Births, 155 ; deaths, 33 ; marriages, 37. [FEOM THE CORRESPONDENT OF TUB PRESS.] Timaett, May 31. The Customs revenue for the port of Timaru for May was £1945 8s 3d, showing an increase of £lO3 over the corresponding month last year. During the month' of May, 11 marriages, 41 births, and 13 deaths, were registered in Timaru. At a public meeting held at Temuka last evening, it was resolved to carry out a thorough system of drainage for that township, which has been very unhealthy of late, scarlet fever being very rife. The late chairman of the Board of Works received a letter from the Gtovernment to-day, stating that they were unable to pay the £ISCO duo for the Board of Works’ offices, which they purposed for a land office, owing to want of funds. They promised that it will be paid when a loan was raised. The amount has now been due eighteen months.