LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 411, 19 January 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency. I Auckland, January 18. News from Samoa reports that the natives are still lighting • fifty of the Government party have been killed. The rebels are staiving and are expected to surrender. The natives of the Friendly Group are very insolent to Europeans; they stole the Rev. Baker’s boat at Tonga, stabbed his horsts and broke into his house. Application has been uuxde for a Resident'Consul. The house of Captain Bradley, an old resident of Ohaiau, was burned, and the remains of the man were found in the ruins. The body was charred, but it was evident that the fire was to I conceal a diabolical crime. His arms land legs were broken, and his skull : hammered in. Bradley was an inoffensive man. The Rev. Watkins, missionary, has written to the Governor of Fiji, for a man-of-war to investigate : the matter. ! Christchurch, January 18. The vote of thanks to Mr Montgomery M.H.R., also included a vote of confidence during last year, i The returns from the Post-Office

Sayings Bank in Canterbury shows deposits for 1877 to have been £263,137; withdrawals, £155,701 ; balance at credit of depositors, £190,322. Timartt, January 18. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, Wm. Corbett, proprietor of the Cave Arms accommodation house, in the M'Kenzie country, for forging and uttering a chequV by changing the amount from £2 5s to £22 ss, and changing it at the Bank of New Zealand, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Bail, £4OO, and two sureties £2OO.

LATEST UNPUBLISHED. , . Wellington, January 18. H.M.S. Nymphe has amved from Sydney. She will await the arrival of the Commodore, who is expected some time next month. Napier, January 19. Mr Sutton addressed a crowded meeting of the electors in the Napier district last night. The Theatre Royal was crammed. Captain Russell was unable to be present through illness. Mr Sutton was questioned at great length after the close of his address, and the meeting was. altogether very lively. To the motion of a vote of thanks and confidence an amendment was moved that thanks be accorded, but that the meeting declined to express confidence. The amendment was declared lost, but there was a large number of hands held up for it, and many thought it had been, carried. ■When the original motion was put it was carried by a large majority.