LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1447, 18 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, May 17. The following companies have paid insurance on the Tararua ;—Colonial, £3500 ; NAW. Marine, £6OO ; United, of Sydney, £SOO. The Tararua inquiry is adjourned till Thursday to give the mate’s counsel an opportunity of deciding what course he will take to meet the charges against him which the Court* holds he disclosed by the evidence. In the evidence to-day it came out that the Union Company admitted the boats and life-saving apparatus on board the vessel were only for 136 passengers, whilst the Government surveyor’s declaration was that it was sufficient for 221 The Court will call the attention of the Government to this. The Minister of Pnblic Works, it is understood, has decided to lease the railway workshops at Port Chalmers, where a valuable plant is standing idle.

Christchurch, May 17. The Premier, addresses his constituents on Thursday week. ', The pAsturage ven'ts for the year endApril 30, 1881, amounted to £51,030 17s lOd, on 2,168,1 it) acres. A case was heard at the KM. Court to-day mvolyihg the Wght t6'T>6x-seaSs on a coach. Mr Ck Pbarafcyn, engaged two box-seats at Christchurch to the West Coast and hach,' expressl y~s tf lating for them and -getting them marked on his tickets. a lady ill with asthma*in his seat bn this side he gave it tip, and on returning from the Coast found they were again ncrim pied and he could not get them, tfe alleges! that he had gone on a ; pleasure trip, which was spoiled by the inconvenience this occasioned, arid sued for the return of his fare. The Magistrate said that as he had voluntarily given one up, and had ; also made the journey in the coach, he could not claim the re-- • turn of the whole fare, and gave judgl- - for £4 and costs. Wellington, May 17. "•.• Dr. Alexander Neill, of . Dunedin* has been selected for appointment as resident Medical Superintendent of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum. . The Divorce Court was occupied ail day hearing the case of Hill V. Hill* (Wellington).. The petition of the wife is for a dissolution of marriage on the grounds of adultery, cruelty, and insertion. It is not likely the case will conclude before to-morrow evening* Auckland, May 16.Shepherd, of Whata Whata, has been-: arrested on a charge of peijary in con-, 1 nection with the recent prosecution for' ill-treatment of children. A private cablegram from Sydney.' states that Archbishop Stein’s health is greatly improved. Robert Field Porter, formerly Undersecretary in the Colonial Treasury De ’ partment, is dead, aged 68. He retired many years ago on a pension.