LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 815, 12 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.] Napier, May 10. M'Lfiman has been brought up charged with the murder of his wife. He was temanded foe eujit days; pending the conclusion of the inqne-t, which was adjourned to April 30th,' pending the analysis of the .stomach by Dr. Hector, aud on whose arrival in Napier the inquest will be resumed. Auckland, May 10. A veiy large committee has been

for mud, and energetic preparations being made fuf the reception of the Governor. Wellington, May 10. The Chronicle says there must be a dissolution next session-, and has to fear that Governor Robinsori will refuse. It is likely there tvill be only two candidates for the mayoralty, Mr Hunter, M.H.R., and Mr Hutchinson, the former Mayor. A letter from the Sydney Exhibition Commissioners says that the Prince of Wales has accepted the presidency of the Exhibition. Several more meetings of creditors are called, and others are reported imminent. Efforts will be made to get gangs of men to commence clearing the streets at midnight, so as to have them clean for the following day’s traffic. May 12. Henry Anderson, of the Chronicle, was brought up this morning charged with having committed a deadly assault upon R. C. Easby, blind maker, in Ins own house, but this information was amended to one of “ wilfully and maliciously wounding .Easby with a pair of tongs, such being an indictable offence.” The Magistrate said the case was of too serious a nature for him to deal with it. Anderson’s counsel notified that his client had laid a counter-informa-tion of a precisely similar nature against Easby, who appeared to be very much cut and braised about the face. The case was adjourned till Wednesday. [new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION - ] Westport, May 9. No tidings of Mrs j, C. Crawford,; who disappeared the morning previous to the flre ; at Sheehan’s. The. police have searched everywhere. Some connect her disappearance with the fire, but others are not of that opinion. Wanganui, May 9. An old soldier named Hugh Machon, deceived injuries from which he died soon after, in a drunken quarrel with three Maoris, outside the Red Lion Hotel across the river. Palmerston, May 9. A fall of eai-th occured at two o,clock this afternoon, burying two men, named Gullmansen, and Hans Peterson, the former was thrown violently against the ballast engine* inflicting a frightful scalp wound; neither of them are fatally injured. CHRiSTCdtiRCft, May 10. The adjourned meeting of gentlemen who proposed to celebrate Moore’s Centenary took place last night, and it was resolved that the commemoration should take the form of a banquet. The Governor tookaway from Canterbury three short horn cows for his farm at Wellington, bought and shipped by Messrs J. T. Ford and Co, Dr Moritz Marks, who lately resigned from the Hospital Medical Staff, committed suicide this afternoon by taking morphia and chloral. A deaf and dumb man, who has lately been obtaining subscriptions here, to enable him to pay his passage to Melbourne, was found by one of his charitable subscribers the other evening enjoying a game of billiards at an hotel.