LATEST TELEGRAMS

Kumara Times, Issue 1161, 18 June 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Oamaru, Junie IC. The body of a child, evidently aged about a week, was found under the htidge on tlie north road to-day. Thu police have the matter in hand. There was great excitement over the election to-day in favor of Mr Jonesi The following is the total number of votes polled hy the candidates: —Jones, 775; Reid, 666 ; Roberts, 168. There were 31 informal’Votes* Invercargill, Juhd'T'G. ' Mr Gun, of Featherstou, Wellington, lias been selected from a htimher of applicants for the head-radstership of .the District High School. The Southland brewers have agreed: to bear a share of the heel? tax of (5d ‘ per gallon. They will pay the Exciseduty direct, recouping the publicans’ proportion by charging 2s additional per hogshead. Christchurch, June 16* On Saturday and Sunday nights Messrs Cass and Hallenstein’s drapery establishment, close to one another in Cashel street, were broken into, and several articles of apparel and some money taken out. A man named Wood has been arrested on suspicion, and today he was remanded till Monday. Wellington, June 16. A letter from the Minister of Public Works in reply to one from the Mayor asking what steps the Government intend to take in view of the fact that a number of men at present engaged oil the Corporation works will shortly he thrown out of work owing to the close ot works, states that the Government are not losing sight of the necessity for providing employment us far as the * means afforded by the Parliament will permit; but the Minister trusted that the Coaporation on that accoiiut would not tail to push forward such works as may be calculated to afford relief. Juno 17. The mining lease of the Golden Point Gold Mining Cotnpahy was sold by auction this afternoon to Mr Reeves, M.H.R., £4OO, and the plant to Mr Masters for £lls. Auckland, June 14. Intellgende hag been received that the 21 passengers by the Marion front He\v Caledonia for Auckland, via Hnofi Island, are not Communists, but workmen engaged to collect guano at Hdou Island, Tlie Harbor Board employed the steamer Annie Milbank to work the harrows borrowed from the Dunedin’ Board; The experiment ptoved a-fail-ure. The harrows only disturbed the mud which settled down hard, they 1 not being strong enough to carry it away. An elderly man, named J. Hill, wits found dead this morning hy a milkman in Karagahope road. At an inquest on the body this morning the jury returned a verdict to the effect that de- 1 ceased died from exposure and continued intemperance.