LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 793, 16 April 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, April 15. Messrs Macfield and John Grey were nominated for the City Council. Two xjlaimants have applied to the Mauagei- of the South British Insurance Company, for the published £IOO reward on account of the conviction of Fidgitt. The Government have called for 100,000 sleepers for the Thames and Waikato railway, so that it may be pushed on. An entertainment in aid of the Newton Fre Brigade last night passed off successful lv.

Yelverton O'Connel, a carpenter of East Hamilton, who two years since eloped with Martha Millions, and was tried in Auckland and acquitted, for giving a false declaration to the Registrar, hns met a violent death at Haruiton. Waikato. He was contractor for building a store and fell off the roof striking his chest and belly on a transverse beam. Hedidnotfeel seriously ill and continued working, but mortification was the result, and he died. He leaves a widow and child at Raglan. Invercargill, April 15. The volunteer iwiew and sham fight to-day, was on the whole very successful. Tho moini g was threatening but the weather dea-e.l up by 8 o'clock and the sun shon- out in a manner that surprised the Northeru visitors, but before the review was over a couple of heavy showers dispersed the spectators, and gave everyone on the ground a good Wfttinti.