LATEST TELEGRAMS

Kumara Times, Issue 586, 13 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[press AGENCY.] Wellington, August 12. Mr Reeves got a promise from Mr Macaudrew that £3OOO would be put on the Estimates for the construction of a stock track from Mauria Plains to Reefton ; he also made application for £4OOO for river protective works at Reefton. Christchurch, August 12. At the Magistrate’s Court, to-day, J. M. Connell, who assaulted Mr Thomas, solicitor, in the public street on Saturday, was sentenced to two months imprisonment, with hard labor, and ordered to find sureties for his good behavior at the expiration of that time. From his appearance in Court, Thomas seemed very heavily punished. The affair arose out of a bankruptcv case. Connell asserted that he took a man named Moss, about to become a bankrupt, to Thomas, aud that Thomas, in undertaking to put Moss through the Court, promised to see that Connell’s claim was paid, but afterwards Thomas refused to pay him. Thomas said he made no such promise, and that Connell had not the slightest claim on the estate of Moss. Connell, who was very violent in Court said he had come all the way from Wellington to assault Thomas.

The Chamber of Commerce held a meeting to-day to consider the question of rai.way communication with the West Coast, and passed resolutions thanking the Canterbury members for the action taken, and in effect that the route via Amberley was the best and cheapest. It was also resolved, to ask j the members of the Assembly to support the Canterbury members in an endeavor to get that route adopted. Wellington, August 12. j All the Canterbury delegates, and Mibeeves interviewed the Go- : veinment to-day as to a main road be- : tween Ahaura and Aruuri. Tim Go- | vermaeut admitted the necessity of ; such a road, and said tint if possible, it | would be done, but that they were afraid that the Railway from Brauner«ton to Araberly would absorb all the k money available.