LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2036, 8 March 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, March 5. John James Powell, a settler at Alexandra, was drowned while crossing the river at Kopua. Mr Douglas has deposited at the Museum a large diamond found by the Raglan prospecting party. Mr Pond, provincial analyst, has expressed the opinion that the stone, though a gem, is of too great a specific gravity to be a true diamond, and that it is what is called by the trade “ a rough diamond.” Messrs J. Alexander and Kohn, jewellers, pronounce it a true diamond. Kohn subjected the stone to the jeweller’s test of scratching a ruby with satisfactory results. March 7. The Royal Mail steamship City of New York arrived to-day, at 10 p.m. She did not leave San Francisco till five days after the advertised time, owing to the English mails being left behind at Ogden. The passage was uneventful. The Hawea with the Southern mails leaves Manukau at eight o’clock tomorrow morning. Dunedin, March 7. At Arrowtown a young man named Scoles was killed by a fall from a dray. Invercargill, March 5. A man, Charles Sullivan, who was recently tried and acquitted at the Supreme Court here for an assault on a school girl near Wiriton, has committed a rape on a girl aged fourteen at Waimatuka. It is said he had previously attacked a married woman, who got away. Sullivan has not yet been captured. Bluff, March 3. Two English men-o’-war, Espeigle, six guns, and the Diamond, fourteen guns, passed through the Strait this afternoon bound to the eastward. March 5. Henry Jones, a recent arrival here, and a brother-in-law of Mr Hannay, was killed this evening while shnnting a train. The deceased fell off the step of the carriage and was dragged a considerable distance. A doctor from the Rotomahana promptly attended, but life was extinct. Wellington, March 6. The Government have determined to release Te Whiti and Tohu in a few days, aud arrangements are now being made for the purpose. Napier, March 6. Five Maoris at Taupo brutally attacked a European named M‘Neal, and left him for dead. It was proposed to throw him into the lake, but he shammed death, and after some altercation the Maoris left him. Three of them, if not all, are in custody. Gisborne, March *5. Mr Lyster Kaye, of Wairarapa, who was shepherding for Mr Hutchison, is missing. He had been ill for some days, and on Wednesday got up during the night, hut did not return to the house. Next mor’hing there were tracks down to the river. There was heavy flood at the time, and he must have fallen in. The police are searching for the body.