LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 573, 29 July 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] New Plymouth, July 27. A. deputation of influential gentlemen waited upon the immigration officer today, with the view of ascertaining what immigrants could be expected to counterbalance the dearth of labor here. Mr King said men were getting seven and eight shillings a day, and there was a groat want of servant girls. He said the railway to Stratford would be completed before next summer, and that would absorb a large amount of labor. Mr Courtney said he had called for tenders for moving a building and for ploughing, and he had received only two tenders- for one job and none for the other. Mr Bailey said 300 immigrants might be absorbed next summer, not to speak of harvesting. Mr Webster said the grass seed harvest next year would be a large one, and if there was not more labor it would he lost,- He had to pay men eight shillings a day and feed, and he had almost to beseech them to work at that. The immigration officer said all the immigrants but the Hurnnui's were absorbed in eleven days, and he would represent what had been stated to che Government.

A man named William Dale was crushed by a tree falling on him whilst felling it and killed. Rehfton, July 28, A great gale visited here during Saturday night and Sunday. Green’s brewery was blown down at eight this morning. No other damage, of any consequence. Heavy floods in the Inanguhna, but it is now subsiding. Weather still unsettled. Bluff, July 27. The Government steamer Stella arrived. last, night, from Central Island, where they found some natives, from Riverton, residing. They had taken possession of the lighthouse. They state the island belongs to the Maories as a cemetery, and that the Government had no authority to erect a lighthouse there.

An attempt will be made to float the Ann Gambles on Tuesday next. Invercargill, July 27., A fire was discovered in the* Southland Times Office at 8.30 this morning. There was no one on the premises, and the fire appears to have broken out iu the editor a room. The flames spread quickly, and the building ami, plant were totally destroyed. Mitchell and Go’s, store, adjoining was gutted, and the stock injured. M'Donald’s brick building, on the west side, was slightly damaged. The following are the insurances on the Times building : Northern, £2OO ; Sonth British, plant, •£SOO • Liverpool and London, do £400; Victorian, do £2OO limited : Sydney, do, £SOO, LATEST UNPUBLISHED.

Invercargill, July 28. Through the assistance received from the News and local printers, the Southland Times was published as usual this morning. Dunedin, July 29. The Roslyn election resulted in the return of Mr Driver by .a Majority of 116. The numbers being Driver 333 Ross 219.