LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 799, 23 April 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.]

Wellington, Apiil 22. It is stated that several Manners and Cuba street hotelkeepers, have a reed to pay a small subsidy to the new lesees of the Imperial Opera House as an acknowledgement of the benefit which it will secure to the trade «>f the locality from the cnnl unions run of performances which they guarantee.

It is stated here on what purports to be good authority, that a fre>h information will be laid against Messrs Kinmss, Sutton, and Worgan, for perjury in Maori affairs, as referred to in recent telegrams.

Wuhupa paper, writing of t!.e Wei-

lington-Masterton railway line, says:— "The Featherstone line id simply a marvel, but will always stand as a monument to extravagance and recklesness of people who would pierce the Rimutaka at any cost." At the Resipent Magistrates Court, this morning, Thomas Bromley, a youth of seventeen, was charged with cruelty to animals, in beating a horse, with a long spike nail on a stick. It was proved that he drove the nail up to the head in the horse's flesh. The Magistrate fined him 40s, expressing regret the law did not allow him to order the culprit ten lashes on his back. Sir George Grey will leave for Auckland in the Hmemoa to-morrow evening. He will probably be accompanied by the Hon. Mr Sheehan. Nineteen thousand tons of railway iron for the Government was unloading last week. The butchers have raised the price of meats to restaurantshotelsetc, but not to the general public. The Waitara-Hawera railway is expected to be complete in three months. The action of the Cleik of the Court in withdrawing a baliff after being placed in possession was according to the 135th clause of the Debtors and Creditors' Act, by which all executions for debt become void as soon as a debtor's bankruptcy has been published. The Government deny that Te Whitu has ordered Europeans to leave Opunake. What was done was by an individual Maori, of no influence who was swawggering about the township, ask ing what the Europeans wereiloing, and why they did not clear out. The Gov. eminent say that Te Whetu is earnest as ever in deprecating all violence. The poll taken re the borrowing of £IOO,OOO for formation of new streets, etc., resulted as follows: 951 for, and 571 against. An extra has been published giving latest telegrams which state that Te Whetu has ordered all the Euiopeans away from that settlement, and has adopted a most offensive attitude. New Plymouth, April 22. Te Whetu has ordered the settlers and oonatables.to leave Opun ke ; and Macbiy and Black's negotiations have not yet concluded successfully. Tokomairiro, April 22. This morning no Bruce Herald appeared. The stoppage of this paper was not unsuspected, every issue being expected to be the last. Its reprint, the Clutha Times, is also stopped. The other Herald reprint, the Mataura Ensign, has been taken in hand by Mr J. dimming, Hotelkeeper, Balclutha. GRBYMOUTH AND HOKITIKA RAILWAY. Wellington, April 23. Tenders for the Greymouth and Hokitika Railway, beginning at the Greymouth end, have been approved of, and will shortly be accepted. There is a balance of £15,000 of the vote taken last session still iu hand, and it intended to spend that at the Hokitika end, and thereby commence the railway between Hokitika and Greymouth at each end. *. [NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, April 21. Heavy rains has been falling off and on for the last twenty four hours. It is bal.ly wanted by pastures and for drinking purposes, the majority of private cisterns being empty. It will also have the effect of allaying typhoid fever now so prevalent in the district. By the. Albion, 165 pure merino she?p, consisting of ewes and rams, were shipped by Mr Thos. Dowling, of Rakaia, to the order of a Victoriau sheepowner. These sheep having been bred from Tasmanian and other imported blood and reared up on good country, are of great size and symmetry, with a heavy deep staple of wool. April 22. A cottage was burned downatTaitapa, about 12 miles from Christchurch, on Sunday evening. The proprietoress, a Mrs Klanse, had left it on Saturday morning and gone to Christchurch, and there is no doubt the place was set on tire. It was about to be removed to another site on wheels. The insurance was £125 in the National. Wellington, April 21. It is stated that the Government contemplate making important changes in regard to the Resident Magistrates of the Colony. These changes will include removals from one district to auothar and alterations in matter of salarv. Aprif 22. The following tenders were received for the Waipawa contract of the Am-lierly-Brunnerton ) ail way :—accepted, Peter M'Grath, Christchurch, L.2M93declined—Thomas and Hill, Christ"chuivh, L 22 US;Jas. Cut, Dunedin, L 23,927; Thos. 'I. Parsons, Christcluucli, L 31.515; E. G. Wright, Dunedin, £32,947.