LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 694, 18 December 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] DCnedin, Dec-ember If. There are six cases of typhod fev.er in the Dunedin Hospital at present, those suffering from it were passengers by the Timarn, which arrived in port last monthj and which was not quarantined by the Board, notwithstanding that tile medical members of the Board strongly .urged that the vessel should be quarantined One of the passengers died on the 27th November from fever*, and another died in the hospital yesterday. Henry Lion Metz, arrested in lfiide for forgery by a Dunedin detective, is now being escorted to Dunedin bv I that officer. In Dunedin there are eleven candidates for the junior and three for the senior Civil Service Examination. The female immigrants by the ship Canterbury have been all engaged. The demand for servants is in excess of the supply. | Auckland, December 16. j Mr Stewart, District Engineer, accompanied the Ministers to the North. The Raglan load is ordered to be immediately proceeded with. Sir Geo. Grey visits Maketu on his return, in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway. The 1 Mayor-elect gives a grand banquet to the Councillors on Wednesday. [special to the globe.] London, December 9. The West of England and South Wales Bank had a capital of a million, and forty-two branches in the manufacturing and mining districts. LATEST UNPUBLISHED, Wellington, December 18. At a large anti-Chinese meeting last night, the Mayor in the' chaiir, a series of resolutions were carried, the effect of j which was that Government should be memorialised to prevent the unrestricted influx of Chinese. A resolution was also carried expressing sympathy with the seamten on strike at Sydney. A letter was read from Mr Ballance; expressing sympathy with the object of the meeting. From about noon yesterday until seven this morning, when the Telegraph Department got through with San Francisco mail news, there were 108,000 words transmitted from' Auckland to the Southern stations' of purely press messages. Nklson, Decem'ber 1&. Mr Richmond M.H.R,, addressed his constituents last night, and received s vote of confidence: AUSTBALUtf 3ti&W& [press agencb'.J Melbourne, December 14. Satisfaction is frit at the acceptance i by the Marquis i,f Mornmnhy <»f the j Governorship of Victoria. Long and | favourable'notices of his- career in the • Colonies l of Queensland and> New Zea- ; land have - appeared. At a- dinner given to the Cricketers, 1 the' Governor, in the course of his speech; said :—" Gentlemen —I wi! I ask permission to-digress for a uio.iie'.it v aud

congratulate yon on the appointment as my successor in the great office of Governor of Victoria, often called the ' blue ribbon' of the Colonial service, of so able and distinguished a nobleman as Lord Normanby with such large experience in the Imperial Pai'liament and in Colonial administration; It is a singular fact that Lord Normanby has followed me as Governorsuccessively of Queensland, of New Zealand, and Victoria. I earnestly hope that the •whole of his administration here will be as pleasant and as prosperous as were my first five years in Victoria, (applause), and that he will escape anypolitical tempest such, as that of the last twelve months;''

The Kellys stuck up "Faithfull's Creek Station about 2 p.m. yesterday, and have been about the vicinity since. One of them dined at De Boas's Hotel to-day. they brought in a vehicle bei longing to Grastet, a hawker, for the purpose 1 of removing the occupants df the bank. A fatal case of snake bite odciirred near Alexandra, to a boy whd ■was taking potatoes out of a bag| when he was bitten on the finger. The usual remedies were applied, but to nb purpose.

Although only three wdeks to the Champion race, it is not spoken' aboiit. Probably not more than half a dozen will start, and the result should be with either Warlock, Ehoode, or Wellington, all three-year-olda, carrying 7st 31b. Very little doing at the theatres, hut preparation is making for the Christmas pantomimes. Iu commercial circles there is dullness in all brandies, and want of trade is still complained of.