LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1458, 31 May 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS .

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, May 27. It is understood that a farther release of Maori prisoners will take place almost immediately. Dunedin, May 27. The German schooner, Christian, 99 tons, which arrived from Hamburg today, has been 190 days on the passage. She met with a continuance of bad weather, but the only damage was a few rails split. An inquest was held to-day on the body of Thomas Bell, killed on the railway, near Kensington, on Friday. Verdict “ Accidental Death.” Nothing was elicited to show how deceased came on the line. The hope was expressed that the occurrence will prove a warning to trespassers. The coroner advised the people of the city to get a pledge from their members at the next election to see a morgue established in the city, as neither the Government nor the City Council acted on his suggestion in the matter.

A prisoner escaped from the Botanical Gardens to-day by putting on the warder’s coat and strolling out unconcernedly. He was serving a short sentence, which would expire tomorrow.

It is stated that a man from Tuapeka has been robbed of £2OO by a pickpocket at Forbnry Races on Queen’s Birthday.

Auckland, May 30. A young man named Carlton, who arrived by the mail steamer, and went on to Sydney, related last night to Fisher, of the Occidental Hotel, an account of a conversation he had at ’Frisco with North, of Wellington, the levanter, shortly after the former arrived there by the last mail boat. He said that the first Sunday he visited Woodward Gardens, in order to see some sports that were going cn, and was surprised to perceive North there in company with a man named Street, who runs a large saloon. He went up and shook hands with him, and after an interchange of the usual common phrases, North inquired what was thought of him in New Zeeland, when Carlton replied that he had completely ruined the sweepstakes business there. North appeared to be very jocular, and several times remarked in a tone of great glee, “Didn’t I give them a b start 1 ! I intended some day to do it.” He professed willingness to pay any one whom he should drop across, and said his wife and family were 1200 miles up country, and that be had cleared out of Wellington with £1,600 ; and that he was then on his way to the Cape. He intended, however, in going through the States, to lecture on the evil consequences of gambling and the disastrous results entailed upon young men by their weakness for sweeps. He (North) further drew attention to the slightly pockmarked appearance of his face, and, in explanation, said that on reaching Honolulu he went ashore, interviewed the King, got gloriously drunk with him, and caught the small-pox, which was raging there at the time. He was put in the pest house, and kept confined there for a month, fie bade Carlton good-bye, after desiring him to tell his New Zealand friends that he intended coming back and giving them another turn some day.