LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 772, 21 March 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Maich 20.

On several .occasions during the Jast few day* the points of the Hutt Railway were fo.und displaced, after being left sale: Last night the passenger train ran,into some trucks on a.aiding at the Upper Hutt through the points open, ; which had only >»een closed a few minutes before. No great damage was done. 'I he windows of one station was also broke by. some miscreants. "' Cbloner Whitmore returned today. Two men have been commited for trial for a garrqting robbery.

Greytqwn..March 20

:: An ; iiifluential meeting to-day decided to take'immediate steps under the District ways Act to construct a railfrdnr ; G'reytown to Waihenga. The prjli^iiriifry; suiyey; will be commenced next, ..The project is being taken up'warniiy Joy the Hon J. Martin and other sefctjers.

-Dunedin, March 20,

Three' 'heaps of-"stones were found I placed lairfthe- port, line near Ravens- ; bourne late on Monday. They are said \ been-put there by twaboysU | ' At about one o'clock this morning I four-roomed cottage- at Saddle Hill bwtipd-by Mrs Steadraan, :and occupied ; by Wjn. Barletts, shoemaker, was ; totally:destroyed'by fire, Barletts, who is asinfjleniah, riild lives alone, ■; states that at six o'clocklast night he left'his house, after scctu-ely-locking it up, and went to.\BnahtoW leaving'there- about within flhout a quarter of "a m\le: ■of liis home lie . met. a"' man with hisface muffled au'd on horseback. He remarked thit it'Wys T a fine night, ." YesT^ypit'^l l loseiiirtmilihaiii 1 ; r>Vrtl;ets |saw sniote. jissiiing : ";from ; . Ins | sl^pj'at'ft^ j wi^'a' : whip. \- : Shortly! !({• evwards | sfrop-l'.The 'stock ; was insured I TQew'ZkaTahd ''Office; for "£XQ'Q', Ai , ?; : . } Otdgo" f wbii the interprovinciai rifle I nfi|cji .tOfday by. 76 poi,uts,..the scores j| jj vv-as .stujiiiy^ strong ' wiriia and Vain from the south-west!'".