TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 63, 12 January 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

- ■ ■ -» . [BY El^ECXma TELEGRAPH.] [ [PEB PEBSB AtiSOOUTION.] Wellington, January 1.1. The contract for the construction of the Wellington -street tramway has been signed, and. the iocomo ives, carriage*, and rails have been ordered from England. The work will begin to-day. A decided change for the better has taken place in Lady Norraanby's health today.' The Armed Constabulary and Police forces throughout the colony are to be amalgamated, so Far as to enable the Government to use the police of both Islands in case of emergency. By this arrangement Government can reduce tfce Constabulary by thirteen ofljcecs and two hundred men, and (his reduction is being made as rapidly as possible. T/he whole, question of the administratiou of this com* bined force, and the appointment of superior oOJeers. is still under the consideration of the Government. Chbistchpbch, January 11. Steps are being taken to establish public chess club here. The Drainage Board are becoming impatient of delay in the receipt of detailed plans from Mr Carruthers for the drainage of Christcliurch. It is very important that something should be done in drainage matters before next winter. The Loco] Board of Health are going well to work, and have appointed a nmfiojice inspector at £275 per year, and

bare decided to appoint a medical officer at £250 per year. Gbeymottth, January 11. The Bank of New Zealand ship by the Kennedy, far shipment to Loodon by the Waimea from Lyttelton, thirteen thousand and fifty ounces gold, aa follows: — From Hobitika, 3,700 oz* ; Greymouth, 6,050; Westporfe, 3.300. Greymouth Coal Pit Heath Coal Co. struck the main seam of coal jent^rday in their shaft at a depth of 246 feet. Auckland, January 11. Curtain found guiltr of the murder was sentenced to death Mr T?ees«, for the defence, called Annie M'DonaH, who hea"d Shinagban threaten to kill Curtain, and bad seen him driving prisoner's cattle eight months ago. purtain went to ShanaghanY house, and Rhanaghan chasec? h>m away. John Parr, a settler, deposed thar Shanaglun I had made a threat against the prisoner, and they frequently quarrelled. CHRiSTCHtfBCH, January 11. A Canterbury passenger by the mail steamer Australia writes to the Christchurch papers complaining bitterly of the treatment teeeived by all the passengers in quarantine at Auckland, and he stated that the quarantine barracks were filthy and without firing, and that no food was received from Auckland for two or three days. He also states ' that the mails were fumigated in a I very inefficient manner and urges thai an official inquiry shou'd be made into the whole eirsumstancee of the case.