LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1110, 21 April 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Wellington, April 20. • The action in the Supreme Court td set aside the sale of the tramway is not likely to conclude before to-morrow night.

The cdal rtiine and property connected with and belonging to the Wellington Co, was put up to auction toand purchased by Captain WiU Hams for £4750.

The tender of A; Sees for £2294 has been accepted for the erection of the new railway station. The body of George Cdoley, dne of the men drowned on the Wairaraptt Lake, was found to-day. Christchurch, April I§. A man named Martin who was tenced at the Supreme Court to five' month's imprisonment and two floggings, received his first 15 lashes day. He received them and showed no signs of. suftering on his face, though he struggled violently. The lashes were well laid on, and nothing but a determined will could have kept the fellow from evincing his feelings. The term of imprisonment was expressly limited by Judge Johnston to five months in order to make the flogging more degrading. During the past fortnight four cases of diphtheria} and ten of typhoid and one of Bcarlet fever have been reported to the Local Board of Health. Dr Ned will, in his report to the Board, combats the opinion expressed by the Hospital surgedn, as mentioned in a telegram last week, that typhoid feveV is not infectious; He winds up thus : "If typhoid fever is not infectious, then such men as Sir William Jenner, Mr John Simon, and Professor. Parks are wrong; and sanitary Boards have been spending ratepayers' money} and hairassiDg the public unnecessarily;*'

■ April 20. It is stated the Sun newspaper hds been sold to a Christchusch evening p.iper just started; The price is stated at £4OOO.

The Ellesmere races catiie off to-day; The cup was won by Marie Antoinette" easily, and the hurdle race by Venture; The New Zealand Shipping Company received a cable advice from stating that the Comus has been unable 1 to find any traces of the missing Enowsley Hall, at the Crozets; also, of the" arrival of the Hurunui and Waipa at London.

Dunkdin, April 20. It is not known yet what course the Crown intend to take re the other charges of murder against Butler. iNVERCAudILL, April 20. A man named Flynn Was arrested to-day for fraudulent bankruptcy, having, it is alleged, concealed some £9O odd from his creditors.

Oamaru, April 19. Two stacks Of wheat belonging to Mr Foley, Pakoa, were destroyed by firs on Saturday night, between 9 and i 0 o'clock. They are believed to be insured, but the amount is hot known* Foley was in Oamaru at the time, and cannot in aDy way account for the fire. A man named Henry Aitken, engaged in working a threshing machine near Duntroon, met his death to-day under peculiar circumstances. He and two companions had been in Duntroom on the 25th instant, and, after taking some drink, they engaged an express and drove off to reach the mill. After driving a little distance, Aitken fell off. His mates, thinking he was drunk and nothing -wrong with him otherwise, took him into the mill and laid him down. The following morning they visited him, and as he refused to come down to the mill, left him there. On again going to him yesterday morning Aitken complained of being hurt about the back of the neck, and of his inability to move. They lifted him down, and he was brought to the hospital last night and attended to, but he died this afternoon at half-past three. * Julia Paul, who murdered her infant in gaol on Sunday morning, was brought before the Court this morning, and remanded for medical examination as to her sanity.