LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1067, 2 March 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[UNIfED PRfeSS ASSOCUTiprf,] . , , Ohuistchuuch, March 1. The ships Westland and Wai'mate" were admitted to pratique to-day. , One of the Messrs Cameron thers' ballast lighters, the William, sank in the outer iiartJor to*day, full of ballast. Th'e" nieii aboard got awiiy safely, Wellin&ton, March 1» To-day the banks anudnnce a farther reduction of a half per cent, in the deposit rates ; these are now—three months, four per cent, j six months, five per cent.; twelve months, five.and a hall per cent. Ifc is reported that the vacant pqrti folio in the Ministry may be offered tb Thomas Dick, M>H.Ri, Dunedlb} and accepted by him. The yacht race to the "Heads and back between the Redjacket ann Pet, for .£35 aside, takes place on the 13 til insh ' ■ ■; Auckland, March 1. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £2549 ) for the month endiug February, £19,594, being a slight increase on the corresponding month of 1879. The Mormon Elders baptised two converts at the Graving Dock j one a man who occupies a position in connection with the management of the harbor, the other a widow and three children. Hawera, March 1. The detatchmeot of unemployed from Wellington have just arrived. New Plymouth, March 1, The members of the Royal Commission on Native affairs on the West Coast arrived here on Saturday with their staffi There will be no sitting in New Plymouth, as the Commission

'consider that Waitara will be the most "central j sprit. *Frdtii sill accounts : a 'large number'of -Natives Will visit the 'Commission. ( . Mr M'Murdb, the travelling agent for the Mutual fatfe Association of Australia, whilst coining to New Ply. tlouth from Hawera ou horseback, wals thrown'from bis horse and broke his : arra. The New PrymdirfJa gas works being 'completed, the town will, be lit up on ■fcaturday night for the first time.