LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 722, 22 January 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington; January 21. Superintend int, J imes has ariived to take charge of the Wellington police district. The New Zealand Rifle Association's first meeting is fixed for Nelson on the 3rd March. Chhtstchitrch, January 21. Two men were arrested yesterday on the charge of stealing a gold watch vilued£4o. , The first and second mate, who deserted from the barque. Willard Mudgett in Lyttelton. were arrested on Saturday. The harque has left, but the men will be prosecuted. At the inquest held yesterday on the body of George Butler, who committed snic ile at Ramjiora, the jurv returned a verdict of suicide while in"an unsound state of mind. The cvse of llonders'in. v. Napier Har'mr Bond was continued to-dty at the Supr une Court.

•Mr J. Slater Pratt, f .rmerly proprietor of the Waikouaiti H raid, is dead.

At the nve'ing of the T.yt'elton Harbor Board yesterday, the treasurer's statement shuw-d—Ueoeint*,. £ 19,480 12* 8d; expenditure, £lK.<)O3 9s Id, to which is a Id. id an overdraft, at the hank of £9951 17s 2 I, on May Ist, 1878, showing a de'.it kd nice of £847 + Is 7d. An amount of £8370 5s 8-1 had W.on paid onfc of the ordinary levenne, which, ommiting overdraft on May Ist, 1878, wonld show a credit halanrenf £10,689 ,*h 7d. The liahili itvs show £50,234 15s 7d, and the assets £317,449 ls7d wish contingent assets of £200,000.

A let'er was raid proposing the connection of Lytteltou with the pilot station at the I fends. The cost was estimated at £3OO. .

A telegraphing apparatus was ordered for the steam-tug Lyttelton.

Auckland, January 21. The New Zealand Shipping Company presented a cup valued at £SO to the Auckland Regatti : Shaw and Saville, 10 guineas. Total amcunt of prize*, £4OO.

At the Wesleyan Conference to-day the lay repivsputat.ives associated with the ministers m a request, for six additional ministers. Received during 1878. for Monip Mission and Church Extension Fund : —Auckland, £394; Taranaki, £137; Wellington, £189; Nelson, £112; Ca-.terbnry, £586; Otago. £l4l ; connectional rents, £453 ; donation*, £73.

Duxedijt, January 21. The survey of ' the Dunklin Tois Tois Railway has been ordered, and a contract for the first spction will be out by the ond of February. It is stated that an action will be brought by Brogden and Co., against the Government to recover a lar<re sum alleged to be due as extras on the Clutha contract.

' There appears to he an excessive demand for labor in Dnnedin, as thp Hid lie-1 ti->n Board ha re adver ised c >nfrac s in country'districts, and have I teen unable to get a tender for them, and in several cis-s the amount of tenders have l.een in excess of estimates. The Ota.'o Times advocates tlie i traduction of Bible primers c -ntaining the. history and moral teachings of the Bii'le into -chools as a practicable solution oi' the question ot Bible reading in schools. It is stated tliat an action for damages will be taken by Neil an I Bovd against the Age new-piper for ,h .ving, in the case of the creditors in Back's estate v. Watt and o f he?s, ig as th ■ f'ac s of the c ise a siinmai--. of the ojieni g speech of plaintiff's c urns -I, anl i i d >- ing so having given defendant's co.iduci

a higher c-lor than had h?en put upon it liy the plaintiff's counsel. Arrived—Albion, from Melbourne.