LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1698, 9 March 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

* [nk\V ZEALAND PUKSS ASSOCIATION,] Nelsov, March 6. The prizes won at ilie Rifle Association meeting were distributed to-day. A large number of-ladies were present. Mrs Pitt presented the prizes. The winners of the championships were heartily cheered by the assemblage. The Wellington, southern, and Wanganui representatives take their departure to-morrow. The northern men leave on Friday. The ball given tonight to the representatives passed off very successfully, there being a large attendance. Balclutha, December 8. William Whylock, settler and blacksmith, at Puma, committed suicide by

hanging. .Early this morning he was discovered Imaging f lom ;i l)p ° n in smithy, quite dead’, Auckland, March 8. , Juin s Bloomfield, form.-rly in gaol for luitglarv, was captured last audit at EpSoiti, in ail mtp.ilipt to efieCi°an rntry into Buller’s residence there. Boiler was I'ou-ed hy the noise, and got up and encountered the hurghlr id tin; hall, who fled. He was pursued by Buller for two niiied in his nightshirt; and captured; after a severe struggle. Wellington, March 7. Tilt? Premier having liggledtbd to pay his property tax iii time, is mulcted ill the 10 per Cent penalty; IsVERCAWdl I.ti, March 6. Professor Ulrich’s party, that started for Pegasus, Stewart Island; last week; has returned to Invercargill. The Proreport is said to be of the most highly faVoralile description. He declares that he has seen nothing so promising as the Pegiims fcountry for goitl since lie left Ballarat, it is helievfed that there are thousands of acres aur{: feuuis da the sou til-west portion of tlid island;