LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 162, 11 April 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per press telegraph agency.]

Auckland, April 11. John Pyke, charged by the husband of a Mrs McDonald, with stealing certain goods his property, has been acquitted. The case was peculiar. McDonald married in Sydney and his wife left him ; subsequently she obtained his forgiveness and they lived together. At the Thames she again left him, taking with her some goods, and married a man of the name of Pyke, who assisted her to remove the goods with which he supplied himself. The question for the jury was whether all the wife’s property being the property of .the husband, Pyke was guilty of larceny in assisting to remove the goods. Grahamstown April 11.

Moanatairi closed on change last night, sellers £l2 10s. The stone now breaking down is not so rich. The find in the Piako is improving. Christchurch, April 10.

A boy 14 years of age, while crossing the river Ashley on Saturday night, either got off or fell from his hoise on a sandspit, and the horse got Away. Next morning the dead body of the boy was found. It is assumed that he was afraid to ford the river, and died from exposure to the storm which prevailed that night.

Wellington, April 10. Martin Kennedy, who has purchased the Luna, is endeavouring to make araangements with the authorities for landing and storing West Coast coal, either on the new reclamation or on a temporary jetty to be run out from the breastwork.' He is -willing to pay the same wharfage as he would if he berthed his vessel at Queen’s Wharf. He estimates that if a staging, about 200 feet square, could be run out from the breastwork he could supply West Coast coals in Wellington far cheaper than Newcastle coal possibly could be landed for, while it would pay his vessel to take back cargoes of ’goods from Wellington to Greymouth at so cheap a rate that it would pay the west coast towns just as well to import from Wellington as from Melbourne. Tenders for the extension of the Queen’s wharf are advertised for. The plans have been submitted to several Engineers, and approved of. The tenders are for widening the main half, and extension of it. The job will cost fully twenty thousand pounds.

April, 11. The Wakatipu arrived late last night from Sydney which she left on the sth inst.

The following Ceylon telegrams did not appear in the Australian papers till the sth.

Constantinople Feb 26. The shah of Persia has assured the

Porte that the mission of his troops in the frontier is simply to punish the Turkomans.

Midhat Pasha is staying at Naples. The decrease in Mr Hardy’s army estimates is due to nominal credit being taken for the whole payment by the Indian Government for the British troops serving in India. Among the notices of motion in the House of Commons is one by Alderman McCarthur proposing to call attention to the state of affairs in Ceylon, in relation to ecclesiastical endowments. March 3.

Lord Hamilton in replying to a series of questions from Sir G. Campbell said that the title of Kaiser, as applied to Her Majesty in India, was Arabic and not German. Gerald Fitzgerald he also said had simply chosen to spend his years, leave in the Khedive’s service, in carrying out Mr Goschen’s scheme for the reorganisation of the finances of Egypt.

The reason assigned for the British fleet quitting the Pirceus is that the state of politics does hot require its presence in the East.

March 5,

The Choofoo convention remains unratified. Lord Derby requested Sir Thos. Wade to prepare a memorandum giving the reasons for every concession made.

In the House, of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote, replying to a question put by Sir H. Woolff, said that the first reduction in the Suez Canal dues has been postponed till the 15 th April. The Canal Company, he said, objects to England voting, because the shares held by the English Government do not bear coupons. The Government protested against these objections, and declares its right to vote as shareholders. Mr Ward Hunt estimates the expense of the Navy for the coming year at ten and three-quarter millions. Mr Hardy, in presenting his Army estimates, said that the condition of the army was excellent, and he would shortly presetit a plan for the promotion and retirement of officers.

Melbourne. Bannerman’s testimonial has reached £9O.

An application has been made to the Supreme Court, to strike an attorney off the rolls for misconduct, but was refused, on the ground that the affidavit disclosed no indictable offence, and conviction must precede any action such as that asked for. A fatal accident occurred on board the Serapis, during her voyage from London, to two boys on the topmast; It broke away, and one of the youth’s was killed by the fall j the other was knocked overboard and drowned.

Adelaide, April 4. The ship British Enterprise has arrived with a number of immigrants. Seven cases of smallpox, of a mild description occurred during the voyage, principally amongst the crew. One died, two are yet invalided. Whooping cough and scarlatina also were prevalent. Deaths, from all causes, numbered ten. As the vessel has been placed in strict quarantine, further particulars cannot be ascertained.