LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 765, 13 March 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, March 11. The Premier has sent a telegiam to Pan! and chiefs assembled at Oraki, thanking them for assistance, and agreeing 'to defray expenses of chiefs deputed to attend at Kopua. No information has yet been received from Taw halo, as to the.,date of meeting. Great interest is being ; manifested by Kingites,, and extensive c preparation made for visitors. They are also collecting reports from papei-s re road?, land sales, telegraphs, confiscated lands, <fcc. -.Christchukch, March 11. Professor Cook delivered the opening address of the present session of Can* terbnry College last night. A man named "tester was fined £5, or one month's imj.risonmeut, for inter* fering with the l>ailiff. : At the City Council last night, Councillor Wilson tabled' a motion for next week|— * That competitive designs for a be given for the bes.t v and £SO for the Town Hall be calUl for, arid that £IOO second .best design." ; March 12. The Theatre :R*>yal has been placed at the service of theKaitangata Relief Fund Committee on Mori«lay next, by Mr Liddy, manager ! of-i Uncle Tom's Cabin Troupe. The proceeds of Miss Robinson's coucert towards the fund are £24. Messrs Bird and Paul's subscription list has reached £365 9s Bd. An inquest was held yesterday at the Heathcote Valley Hotel on the body of the man Pierce, who was killed by a fall of earth on the previous day. The jury returned a verdict of acci'.lental death.. . t The Intel-provincial Rifle Match, Otago v. Canterbury, will be fired early .next week. ' ' . Dunedin, March 12. An old brewery,not th end of the city, formeily belonging to Godby aud Co., but now owned by the Otago Permanent Building Society, was destroyed by fire between three and four o'clock this morning. The Fire Brigade turned out promptly, but could do nothing. The bulding was of wood and shiugle, and the plan*, including 350 barrels, was consumed. Insurances—£looo in the Northern, and £f>oo in the National. The New Zealand Insurance Offices have lost £95,000 by fires since the commencement of the year, and country j risks are being declined by some of the leading offices in Dunedin. A number of cabmen have been prosecuted for leaving the stand on' roadways, and plying for hire in the streets. Small fines were inflicted. ■" : ".LATEST UNPUBLISHED. [PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, March 13. ; The mail steamer City of New: York is signalled. * • "Waikato, March 13. A train yesterday ran. into a rnob of c at!e, and killed several.;