LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 288, 6 September 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Bluff, September 5. Australian items per Tararua:— Melbourne, August 29.

The Council has been engaged during the week, taking evidence on the Kailway Construction Bill. The Assembly passed the Land Tax resolutions without a division, and they have been embodied in a bill. Some progress has been made with the Mining on Private Property Bill.

Dr. McCartney has been re-elected for South Gippsland by a majority of 94 over Mason. Protests are raised against the proposed impost of ninepence per head on sheep, as calculated amongst other things to ruin the meatpreserving interest.

No more eases of small-pox have occurred; the passengers per Macduff are still in quarantine.

At a sale of sheep, the highest average was—for merinoes, .294 7s. The highest price paid was 270 guineas, but owing to the drought the conditiou of the sheep was not good this year. A fall of earth at the All Nations mine, Ballarat, killed two men and injured a third.

The weather is very dry; only a little rain haa fallen, mostly near the coast. The continued drought is very disastrous.

Lohengren continues a great success at the Opera House.

The Mayor's fancy dress ball, last night, was a brilliant affair. 1,600 visitors and the Governor were present.

Timabu, September 5. Terrific seas have been rolling in all day. The Maori has riot been tendered. She is to take soundings about the coast, at Milford Sound, re the practicability of an entrance to Milford Lagoon.

At the Magistrate's Court to-day, two young men charged with stealing turkeys, were sentenced to three months with hard labor. It is thought a very hard sentence.

James Binstead and Charles Herbert, charged with perjury, arising from a civil case in the District Court, Blythe and Wodworth, were dismissed.

Wellington, September 5. The Waka Maori libel case is nearly concluded. Mr Connolly, for the defence, addressed the jury for nearly six hours. Mr Macassey replied this afternoon, speaking three hours and a half. The chief Justice will commence to sum up to-morrow morning. New Plymouth, September 5. "Reported wreckage on the coast between Hawea and Opunake, and the mutilated body of a European, was reported being seen on Harriet Beach by Natives. A search has been made, but it has disappeared, and it is supposed to have teen washed to sea or covered with sand. It is supposed to have been the body of a man who fell overboard from the cutter Firey Cross when off Sugar Loaves, on the 7th August.

Port Chalmers, September 6. Scarlet fever appears to have assumed a malignant type, three deaths are reported this morning.

A rhyme for " month" is now in demand. Here is one that is very old, but the best we Lnow of: I've tried a hundred times, I gueaa, To find a rhyme for month ; I've failed a hundred times, I know, But succeeded in the hundred and one-th.