LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 505, 10 May 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

I [press agency. I j Oama.ru, May 9. j At the conclusion of speeches by j Hislop and Shriniiski, who addressed j their constituents, a vote of confidence in both was unanimously passed. I Dunedin, May 9.; i Mr Donald Reid has been appointed • Chairman of the New education Board. Mr Reid addresses his constituents ' on Thursday next. Auckland, May 9. The contest for Franklyn will proi bably lie between Robbs and Harris, :of Waimate, both of whom are sup•j porters of Sir George Grey. : j Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of | Fiji, received a very friendly reception j from the natives of Tonga. The chiefs ! declared their determination to m.iiu- | tain their own Government, which Sir I Arthur highly praised.

The New Zoaland Insurance Company lose.£l2oo,and the North British £3OOO, by the founderiug off Cape llo.n <>f the ship Hizeiliue, from New York to San Francisco. The risks were tikeu by Uie San Francisco agents of those companies. Wellington, May 9. Colonel Whitmore, the hon. Mr Fisher, Colonel Reader, and Capt in Johnston inspected the harbor this a£tei*n >on, with the view of deciding where to place batteries fo- defensive purposes. The general impression was that instead of placing all the artillery at the Heads it would be better to have one battery of three guns ou Ward's Island, which commands the entrance to the Heads as well as the anchorage, and another either at Point Jerningham or at Pipitea Point.