TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5134, 6 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

'♦ " New Plymouth, Wednesday. Wreckage has been reported on the coast between Hawea and Opunake. The mutilated body of a European was said to have been seen on the-Harriet beach by natives, Search has been made for it, but it has disappeared. It is supposed to have been washed out to sea or to have been covered with sand. The body is thought to he that of a man who fell overboard from the cutter Fiery Cross when off the Sugar Loaves on the 7th August. TIMAKU, Wednesday. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, three young men, charged with stealing a turkey, were sentenced to three months’ hard labor. This is thought to be a very harsh sentence. James Binstead and Chas. Herbert, charged with perjury, arising from a civil case in the District Court, Blythe v. Wadsworth, were dismissed. The first' concert of the Timarn Harmonic Society takes places to-morrow evening. The oratorio of “ Athalie ” will be produced. It promises to be a great success. ’ Oamaiiu, Wednesday, A workman named David Jamieson, engaged at Mr. T. Meek’s new residence, Allen street,* dropped down dead this afternoon. It is supposed the cause was heart disease, as he had been suffering from that' complaint for many years.* Christchurch, Wednesday. A public trial of the first piano made in this island, one of Cutler and Farron’s manufacture, took place this afternoon, with a very satisfactory result. The piano compared creditably with the best English instruments.

Signor and Signora Majeroni are attracting large houses at the theatre. - Unusual interest is taken in the coining election for the City Council. Sixteen candidates have been nominated for eight vacancies.' . ' Dunedin, Wednesday’ _ A petition, asking for'tjie appointment of a; commission of enquiry into the Dunedin High Schools was sent North to-day. It is signed by 280 influential citizens. Twenty thousand acres of land open for application on deferred payments to-day. The number’of applicants is very large. Invercargill, Wednesday. At Invercargill there were 200 applications to-day for deferred payment sections. On McNab’s, run the amount paid on deposit, eighteen-pence per acre; was £3OOO, representing 10,000 acres. There are great numbers who apply for the same sections—the fancy ones. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (per taearua at bluff.) Melbourne, August 29. The Council has been engaged during the week in taking evidence on the Railway Construction Bill. The Assembly has passed the land tax resolutions without a division, and they have been embodied in a Bill. Some progress was made with the Mining on Private Property Bill. Dr. Macartney has been re-elected for South Gippsland by a majority of 94 over Mason. Protests are raised against a proposed impost of 9d. per head on sheep, as being calculated amongst other things to ruin the meat preserving interest. There are no more cases of small-pox amongst the passengers per Macduff still in quarantine. 1 At the sale of stud sheep the highest average for .merinos was £94 17s. The highest price paid was 270 guineas, but owing to the drought, the condition of the sheep was not so good this year. ' A fall of earth at the All Nations mine, Ballarat, killed two men, arid injured a third. The weather is very dry,- and only a little rain has fallen, mostly near the coast. ; The continued drought is very disastrous. “ Lohengren ” continues a great success at the Opera House. : The Mayor’s fancy dress ball last night was a brilliant affair. Sixteen hundred visitors and the Governor were present.