LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 594, 23 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Reefton, August 22. An influential and very largely attended public meeting was held here last evening, re West and East Coast railway. Resolutions were passed similar to those adopted in Christchurch. To-day six inches of snow fell and the storm still continues. The weather | for the past .five months has been of I greater severity than any before ex- ! perienced. Wellington, August 22. Mr Barff asked the Government if they will lay before the House a copy of the annual report of Inspector James. Mr Sheehan said they would as soon as it was out the printer’s hands. It is intended to bring one or two tons o.t tho D’Urville Island copper ! oro to l<e tested at some local foundry in the presence of all who wish to see ths quality of the ore tested. Christchurch, August 22. Gerald Maiming, a clerk in the Christchurch branch of the Bank of New Zealand, was, to-day, committed for trial on a charge of stealing £IOO, the property of the Bank. Bail was taken, self in £3OO, and two sureties of £l6O each. Mr Coster, manager of the Bank, stated, that after becoming acquainted with the theft, he had allowed the prisoner to go to Auckland, in order to see what steps the Bant Inspector living there would tike. Owing to a heavy fall of snow at Ox-, ford, near Christchurch yesterday, the hunt was postponed. By the s.s. Arawata, a shipment of 200 merino ewes arrived tin Dalyety, Nichols, and Go., from the flock of Mr j John Wilson, of Cabin, neat - Geelong, j The Mayor nf OhistchureV yesterday ! proceeded to Welling’on, on business j connected with the municipal (eservo, i also, to invite the members of both ; Houses to a banquet in Christchurch, , when passing through to Dunedin. A i movement is on foot to give a hearty | reception to the first party of through arrivals from Dune liu by train. 1 A letter in a local journal this morning, accused officers in I 'm T/md Trans- ! fer Cilice, of “ blackmailing” the pub-

lie. The Utter states that business is retarded unless hard cash is forthcoming, and calls on the Government for inquiry.

At a public meeting held at Waikari yesterday, re West Coast railway, similar resolutions were passed to those passed at other meeting in reference to necessity of its being carried from Amberley. A man nanvd Lehman was discovered yeaterd iy, in a very weak and emaciated. condition at his house, near Kaiapoi. The place was in a state of tilth and thorough destitution. He was removed to better quarters. Although in a starving condition, he has £4OO in the Bank, fie is a well-known miser.

Auckland, August 22. The Schooner Atlanta, twenty-two days from Paten, for Manakau, with a cargo of sheep is missing, also the schooner Kahuna from Waitara with sheep. It is feared they are wrecked. Some natives brought word that a quantity of wreckage was washed ashore at South Head Raglan, A constable on proceeding to the place found thirty carcases fat sheep no brands, which the natives said came ashore on the previous night, with a small ladder and semicircular box, 7 by 2 batten 2ft Sin in length, painted Prussian blue and white alternately. The box is of a kind used for covering the rodder shaft, and is now in the constable’s possesion. Constable Bulfinl was also informed by a settler living at Ruapuka, distant 18 miles from Raglae, that on Friday last a portion of a false keel, a quantity of onions, box of candles, and several sheep carcases had come ashore upon Ruapuka beach.

The yacht Foam was oajwised at northern Kaua Kaipara. The owner, Antino Songe, was drowned. He had swam nearly ashore, when he turned hack for his coat floating in the stream and was unable again to reach the bank.