LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1410, 8 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Westport, April 7. A terrible accident occurred at Te Waimangaroa this morning. William Young, a fireman on the railway, when putting down the brake on a coal tram, slipped and fell down. The truck went over his body, killing him instantaneously. Dunedin, April 7. Westport coal is now being used for the smithy furnaces at the Hillside workshops, and gives every satisfaction. Mr Shand has purchased Le Loup for £4OO. Auckland, April 6. The stud mares, Sister, Agnes, Mersey, and Clytermnestra, purchased by Sir Hercules Robinson for the Audiland Stud Company, were landed from the Rotomahana in good condition. Thomas Cadlin was acquitted of the charge of rape on Mrs M‘Neish. At the commencement of the case, the Court was cleared of ladies. Madame Wilmot proceeded to the gallery, and sent a note to the Crown Prosecutor, requesting to stay as a special reporter, but the crier was subsequently ordered to remove her from the gallery, and lock it. She then reluctantly withdrew. Christchurch, April 7, James Scott, lately manager of several large properties in the Ashburton

district, was found guilty of forgery and uttering; and who pleaded guilty to embezzlement to-day, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor concurrently on each. There were other defalcations on which no informations were laid. Wellington, April 7. At the Supreme Court in banco, re Henry Adams, solicitor-, formerly Crown prosecutor at Nelson, defendant not appearing to show cause, the rule was made absolute to strike him off the rolls. W. Hearn; of Wellington; hds accepted the challenge of A. White, of Mercury Bay, to a sculling race for £IOO a-sidei The race is to be rOwed in Wellington, and the course to be not less than three miles. The Governors of the Wellington College to day unanimously appointed Joseph Mackay, who la now and lias been resident and mathematical tnaatei* of the Nelson College for 12 years, the principal of Wellington College. THE CUSTOMS REVENUE OF THE COLONY FOR THE YEAR. Wellington, April 6. Although the full returns are not yet in of the receipts of the customs revenue of New Zealand for the financial year, these are so far complete that a close approximation can be arrived at, and It is not thought that the returns still wanting, which are for small insignificant ports, can materially alter the totah The present calculation of the bustdms revenue for the year ended March 31st is £1,310,000. As the Treasurer’s estimate was £1,250,000, this is £60,000 to the good, and must be deemed a very favorable result. The approximate total of the postal and telegraphic revenue is about £227,000, or nearly £2OOO abdve the estimate. Stamps also are believed to be slightly above the estimate, and land sales com siderably in excess. But on the other hand railways will probably be quite £120,000 short so far as the gross receipts are concerned, although the reduced expenditure will bring up the net results much closer to the estimate. The property tax, as already telegraphed, is nearly £BO,OOO short of the original estimates, so that setting one item against another, the finances are likely to come out pretty straight.