LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1706, 18 March 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Reefton, March 17. After the District Plate Handicap and the Handicap Hack Race had been run in pelting rain, with Lilipee and Dolly Varden the respective winners, the races stand adjourned from day to day till the weather clears up. Christchurch, March 13. The Alpine touridts leave for England to-morrow. The Governor has been visiting the silkworm establishment at Akaroa. Capital accounts are given of the progress of the industry, and some 2000 mulberry trees are to be planted this autumn. March 17. Owing to a most deliberate foul on the part of the Lytteltou crew (W. and C. Fitzsimmons, T. Hariris and G. Graham) in the senior fours' event at Kaiapoi regatta to-day, they were disqualified from taking part in any other events. The secretary was also requested to notify the particulars to all regatta committees in the province. Lyttelton, March 17. The s.s. Akaroa, that arrived from the Chatham Islands, brings news of an attempted murder there. A carpenter named Jacobs fired four shots from a revolver at his wife, one of which struck her, but the bullet glauced off the busk of her stays and passed through her breaßt. Jacobs was arrested and subsequently committed for trial, and will be sent up in the Omaha. The woman is recovering. Dunedin, March 16. A house belonging to a miner named Ellis near Cromwell, on the northern goldfields, was burned down to-day and a child burnt to death in the flames. Auckland, March 16. At the inquest on the body of the widow of James Robertson, who was found dead in her residence at Devonport, a post mortem examination showed that death resulted from a fracture of the skull. Edwards, a livery stable-keeper, at Hamilton, was found dead in bed.