LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 657, 5 April 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(FEOM OVn OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Hokitika, April 4. Chamberlain, a prisoner in the County Gaol, received a sentence at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day of thirty lashe* with the cat, for repeated infringements of the gaol regulations. He is in for four years, for perjury in the. Maungatapu murder cases (Sullivan and Co.) Arrived. =*rZophyr, from Melbourne. Wellington, April 4. Mr Collie, agent to Mr H, Webb, shipowner, New York, has arrived at Auckland, to make anangemepts with the Governments of New Caledonia, Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, for a Hue of steamer* to run through the tropical islands of Polynesia. lie pro» poses to lay on the following vessels :-*=■ Nebraska, 2143 tuns register ; Nevada, 2145 tons ; Dacotah, 215.0 tons ; Santiago de Cuba, 1627 tons Branch steamers from, Honolulu to Auckland are proposed. Mr Collie goe3 direct to Sydney. He says Mr Hall's line will fall through from the smallness of the steamers and want of co-operation at the other end, Samuel Bailley, of the Great Barrier Island, has cut his throat in a fit of in? sanity. The Governor has, gone for a cruise in the Hauraki Gulf. Tawhaio is reported to be favorable to the opinion of Ohinemui. The first New Zealand war medal has been received by Major Hamley. A meeting is to be held here this evening, for the formation of a new steam company, to buy up tha plant of the New Zealand Company. BtfNEDm, April 3. On Friday the police captured Keating, alias " Dublin Jack," who escaped from Hokitika Gaol in 1867. At Drybread Gully, Greenback's party of five, for five months' work, washed np 430 ounces ; and Read's party, for one month, 200 ounces.