LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1440, 10 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, May 9. A despatch has been received by the Governor, announcing that the Queen in Council has assented to the Deceased Wife’s Sister Marriage Bill, which was passed by the Assembly last session. Dunedin, May 9. James Stortel, landlord of the Golden Age Hotel, whilst walking along St. Andrew’s street, burst a blood vessel and died instantaneously. A private telegram received here states that Don won the Goodwood Cup, at Adelaide. There was only one investor on him in the totalisator on the course, and he received £836. The wreck of the Tararua was sold by auction, and purchased by the Union Company for £2O. Auckland, May 9. The Rev. Mr Macnicol, of James’ Presbyteriam Church; lately passenger by the Tararua, in his sermon yesterday, said he was greatly impressed by the negligence shown in the equipment of the vessel, A report has been current among the French Communists here that a French war steamer is coming to take them to France. If so, most of them will go. Palmerston North, May 9. A man named Janson, who left the Pitzherbort gold diggings for Palmerston on Saturday week, has not arrived. Some splendid specimens have come to town from the Hit or Miss Company’s claim. Napier, May 9. Alluding to the Tararua disaster in a sermon, the Rev. Mr Sidey, said he recognised in it a judgment from heaven, and said that by overwork the company had lowered the morals of their men. The company also manifested supreme contempt for the breaking of a divine law, and the moral well-being of some of the communities with whom their trade brings them in contact, in their treatment of the Sabbath. To this there has scarcely been a word of protest on the part of those communities

whom they afflicted. They had been left to pursue their own way regardless of any claim of heaven or earth. The almighty dollar had been the one grand consideration in all their arrangements,