LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 973, 8 September 1871, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

r .^NERAL ASSOEMBIiS". U ; > , [from ohr own fct^Bspo^iJaNTfi "' Wbllinoton, Sept. 7. Mr Lahman telegraphed to the Government to stop the construction of the four miles loop road from the seventeenth mile-post 'onHlfeChristchurcKrdad to the Greenstone road, to connect Greymouth with the main road to Christchurch, and wished tbe road from Kanieri to the Blue Spur, &c, to be ma«le in preference. / : Messrs Harrison and Tribe waited upon 7 the Minister of Public -Works, and protested against the County Chairman or anyone else making any alteration in the scheme recommended by Messrs Blackett and Hector. They received a positive assurance that the Government would no€ deviate from the recommendations of the" Engineer, and a tender for the construction of the road in question; is accepted. 1 It is evident that the attempt to stop this road was due to Hokitika influence. [per grevh.lb'B telegraph company, ■ - - neuter's agents.] . •-; ■ , i v ; ; September 7. The trial of M'Donald, for murder atWangauui, was concluded at midnight.-' A verdict of guilty .was brought in; but the jury recommended him to mercy, on the ground of no evidence; of animus on the part of the prisoner against the deceased. He was sentenced to death, and the Judge held out no hope of the recom- ; mendatioii of the jury being adopted. HV < referred to the enormity of the crime of house- burning, and its in this country. Christchurch, September 7. Helene Peiz, for the larceny of ,LlO,. and William Ward, ? for. larceny of a cheque, were ac luitted. " At a meeting of the farmers at Eaiapoi^ it was resolved to petition for protective duties on grain. -.■■-'. ' ( ;^ •■