TELEGRAPHIC.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6502, 29 December 1881, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

AUSTRALIA.

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THE REPORTED LOSS OP THE WAIPA

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The Merchant Shipping and Under* writers’ A—ocjnrion. through whom the original telegram waa received, now report that it waa tha ship Portland from Timara to London, and not the Waipa which want aahoro at Dunkirk os Be* MBber 22.

- The Australian Overland Telegraph line is interrupted between Port Da. win 'and Adelaide. Tiolent thunders: ms and hurricanes, which hare pass'd orer Central Australia, are suppose! ;,■ be thecanaeof interruption. ’ Arrived-—P. and 0. Company's wSorat with the inward, mail ru Sacs and Brindisi dated London. Nor. IS. Sided—Te Anna as. for the Bluff.

NEW ZEALAND:

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AUCKLAND, Dac. 28.

A third but toe bees boned down to Wtoogapoa. Tto police are iavearigtoicf the matter.

WOfiam MoQar died suddenly to Coromandel of apoplexy. * At the inquest to Saekapakapa on the body of J. Smith, gum digger, found hanging in nts 'whale, a verdict of “ Suicide under temporary insanity " was returned. At a meeting of the Chamber el Commerce a resolution wae carried urging Government to send repreaenlariree to act with Sir Henry Pferkee to Washington in the Begoriariona with the American Government (or the reduction of the wool tariff, so far ae the Colony is eoccented. Dtmnganexcursion trip to Waiwera,the steamer Bose Casey’s boat, in landin g passengers, eapetsed. Of the paeaeagun six were women, bot dl were reecued. The accident wae caused by overcrowding efsisst the captain** order.

GISBQENE. Bsc. » The decision of the jury to the Coroner's • ioqueet on the late Hr Percy wae that deceased met hie death by accidentally taking the chloroform instead of rough mixture. The funeral to-day was followed by a large concourse of people.

PUNGASEHU, Dxc. SS. Christmas wae chiefly celebrated hero by all >he men having a holiday. Many of the tout* were decorated, and at night ilhuaiealed so as to promt a vary pleasing effect. The men behaved themselves writ, and not a rinrie case of insubordination or drunkenness toe been reposted. Two hundred men went out yesterday, and destroyed atom UOacsee of Maen crop*. About the name number of men have gone out again this morning. It i* •teted hero that Government have co&flactocd 6Q.000 aeree to tend ae an indemnity for the owl to euppreariog the recent proceedings.

_ „ WELLINGTON. Dxc. SS. Tto Government steamer Stella has arrived from Caswell Sound with a shipment to about ten tone to marble taken from the bum* Ibtoe. The stone win to sent to Dunedin, Sydney, Melbourne and London. Government have under consideration the appointment of a Commission to consider the tod claim* of Volunteer* who took part in the ware ia New Zealand.

DUNEDIN, Dxc. fa Henry Forde wae brought up at toe Police Court to-day. charged with arson at InrereargiL. He was remanded thither, hail being allowed, himself in £SSO, and two sure live to fittSOeaoh.

Mr Sloul has accepted a seal on ■ the land Board,

Hie Otago crew to compete at the Lyttelton Begatta left with aa inrigged boat by toe Esugarooma to-day. The crow are Meaira Binate, Q. Mercer, T. Mercer, Ltodear, and §ulnn (cox). Thair average weight is lOst b. They have done good work lately. A slight accident occurred to the Christchurch express to-night near Shag Point. The water gauge of toe toiler buret, and the engine-driver was somewhat severely scalded on toe arm. He wae attended to at Palmerston. The train was detained a short time.

INVKBCAB3ILL, Dxc. 2A At the Polio* Court to-day a well-known settler named C. B. Martin woe charged with plural, votingat - the recent election for Wallace. Aecuied. ni remanded until January 5, bail being allowed,-himesif la 1300 and one surety of £UO. r v

[pbom a coaBKi s Qi>Tsa:;r.j v: ' - • Mj cUMtactiaa et » tinued. Th'o pot*toe#, tutrn («a kumam («mmt potato**) MM*<«dnv«f» *U pulkdap. t laCiMofUrtU£la?fl^*w , *l

Parihsia pmmtad (hw« tap of potato* to the men yertsiday.

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WELLINGTON, Dac. 28, A difficulty in rooneete with the -late election} has just arisen. One of Iho BeinroimpOfiew* it appears neglected to return tbs writ at required by the Act, and co being telegraphed to for an explanation ,romed to Bod a difficulty in staling what had become of it. ills believed (hat as lb# writ , w to the fora of* totcgrcm, the Returning* Officer attached lew importance to it than he would have done to tbs more formidable document* formerly in use, and woe therefore less particular what he did with it.