LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 537, 17 June 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agkncy.]

Christohukch, June 15

Deliveries from farmers are. about nil ; the roads being too heavv for traffic. Wheat, 4s 9d to 4s lOd ;" oats, 4s ; barlev scarce, 5s fid to Gs ; flour, £l2 to £.13 ; bran, £5 5s ; sharps, £6 6s; cheese, fi£d ; butter, KM; hams and bacon, 7 id. Wellington-, June 15.

The 'Government will issue on the Ist of July two new postage stamps of the value of 2s and 5s respectively. It is probable that a new penny dutv stamp, about half the size of the i .resent one, will be sold on the Ist pmx! In connection with the present kerosene scare Dr 1 lector sends a letter to the Town Clerk, in which he says he fin.s, from experiments on a small scale in the Labor itarv, that kerosene having a nVhing point, of 85 degrees can be rectified to as to have its Hashing point raised -to 115 degree* with the loss of only five per i:ent, of its bulk ; and that with pro]>er precaution the dangerous oil' now imported can be converted into marketable kerosene without danger, and at a small cost.

The European population of the "Wellington Provincial district is 51,648. Males, 28, iG9 ; females, 23.379, The estimates of the Maori population'have not yet been ascertained. LATEST UNPUBLISHED. Wellington, June 17. The New Zealander announces the following judicial chauges about to be made :—District Judge Ward will he relied of the duty of holding sittings at Milton and Invercargill, and will be required to preside in the new District Court to be established at' Ohristchnreh, as well as at Oamaru an J Timaru, as at :preseut. District Judge Harvey, of the Goldfields District will be required to sit.also at Invercargill j and District Jnde TWhgate, of Duuedin,. will be required to.sit at Milton and Palmersfon. Mr Woolcombe, R.M.. of Timaru, retires on a pension. Captain Mellish, K.M., of Christchurch, will be transferred to Timaru. Richmond Be»tham, Esq., R.M. of Napier, will succeed Captain Mellish as R.M. at Christchurch. Mr Mans-ford, R.M. of Port Chalmers, will on the 29th inst., relieve J. C. Crawford Esq., R.W. of, this ctv, who retires on a pension. Mr Mansford will also be District Judge for Wellington and Wairarapa. Isaacs Newton Watt, Esq., R.M. of Dunediti, v vill take charire I o f Port Chalmers Court. No one has been appoiired to succeed Mr Beetham, sit Napier; but as a District (!onrt is to be established there, a professional mm will be appointed to preside in boh Courts. Henry Blimdell, senior, la.te proprietor and founder of the Wellington Post newspaper, died at Sydney on Saturday, after a short illness, aged 64. At a meeting of Roman Catholics held last night for the purpose of sta-1-ing a Girls School at Te Aro, £530 were collected in the room. The c;ise against Mr M-Donald, auctioneer, for a breach of the Conveyancing Ordhwnoe, whs called on, this morning, but was adjourned for a week. Rewi has signified his wi lingness to accept a seat in the Legislative. C Mined, and it is understood he will shortly be called. Dvxedin. June 17. A criminal infoi-mati.in for libel was la ; d on' S-itnrday by Mr Maeassey, soh.citor, against (t. M. Reed, editor of the Otago Daily Tinier The alleged lib.-l was contained in an hi tide in the Daily

j Times entitled " iVlacassey on Latf I Costs," and had reference to Reea and Kislop's bills. The Times states that Mr Reed will lay a&imilar information agamst Mr Macassey to-day, the ground ground of libel being the letter which appeared in the Herald.' z? . ,

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