LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1426, 28 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedin, April 27

Young Garrett, injured in the tramway accident, has not yet recovered consciousness.

Christciiurch, April 27.

The Acclimatisation Society have remonstrated with the Government on the high price of licenses for killing hares, which cost 20s each. The Rangiora Jockey Club have decided to pay the owner of Randwick the stakes for the cup over which there was a dispute. This is in accordance with the decision of the C.J.C., who were appealed to on the matter. James Coburn and Thomas Parr, two seamen, were charged at Lyttelton to-day with broaching cargo on board the Nataura while on the passage from London to Lyttelton. After a large amount of evidence was taknn, which tended to prove that broaching had been carried on almost the whole of the voyage, and that to reach the cargo they had to pass over the powder magazine with candles, the case was adjourned in order to obtain evidence of some of the passengers in defence. Austiu, Kirk, and Co. intend to compete for the Government bouus of £250 for the first £IOOO worth of household pottery. Auckland, April 27. Twelve seamen of the ship Oxford were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment and forfeiture of wages for broaching cargo to the extent of £IOO.

J. D. Wickham, of the Free Lance, has been bound over, on complaint of W. L. Rees, to kept the peace for three mouths, himself in £SO and two sureties in £ls each.

Bishop Moran was welcomed by the local Catholic clergy, as he passed through by the s.s. City of Sydney, bound to San Francisco.