TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 595, 29 March 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PJJIt PRESS AOKKCY. ] O WELLINGTON. Mirch 28. The Hinemoa leaves to night for Manaukau, with Sir G. Grey on board. No other Minister accompanies the Prenver. It is understood that after reaching the Manaukau the Hinemoa will proceed at once to the Bluff to meet Sir J. Coode.

The following are comparative returns of the population" of Wellington according to the last three enumerations—lS7l, 7836 ; 1574, 10.G47; 1573, 19,126. The Government having despatched an Engineer to inspect the pni| osed Hutt, Waikanae railway line in order to make a preliminary report thereon. It is reported that the apointment of Commissioner of Constructed Railways for the North Island has been conferred upon Mr Lawson, now General Manager of the Canterbury Railways. The Rev.'Father Hennebery sends the following telegr:,m from Kumarato the Press

Agency:—." Theppace disturbing newspaper ! and telegraphic reports lately sent abroad from Westland about my denouncing mixed and legal marriages as no marriages ; of my being prosecuted for LIOOO damages for personally attacking an editor; charging me with inciting the Caholics from the pulpit against non-Catholics ; and about the Police being increased through fear of disturbance arising from the temperance procession-g-are all unmitigated and scandalous falsehoods, and I announce them and other accompany-misrepresent.-)tious as barefaced pand malignant aspertions. If such libellous language be repeated "or sworn; the .guilty parties may expect to bo submitted to the penalties of tjie law for libel or perjury or both.

In a Notice to Mariners in to-night's Gazette, it is stated, .that, in consequence of the earthquake at the Island of Tanha last January, Port Resolution now presents a totally different appearance to what it did formerly. Vessels are cautioned, i'* leaving mid channel, not to proceed furtheriup. the harbor than the Missionary Point. acres of land forming the Nor h Head has heen thrown into the harbor, and a long ledge of coral rocks was thrown up. above high water, thus considerably narrowing the harbor. ••

A telegram from the Merchants' .Shipping and Underwriters' Association, dated London, March 2G. gives the following shipping items : —"Arrived —Crusader, fronY'Lyttelton ; Helen Denny, from Napier." : -'' Mr. George Thomas reports : —Flour, Ll3 to LIS hla; oats, 4s ,'kl; bran, la 2d; wheat, 4s; hams, f)d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese, ?J,d ; ionize, 5s 3d ; pollard, 7s ; potatoes, L 4 16s to 1.5 ; butter, lOd.

HOKITIKA. March 28. In the Supreme Court, Win. Miller, charged with wounding a cow, was acquitted. Hauler pleaded guilty to the other nine c'!iars.'e< of embezzlement; sentence deforred till to-morrow. Ryan's trial for murder commences to-morrow.

March 26. Hamer has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude. He is 2S years of aye, and was in sole charge of the agency. No de-f'-nce was offered, and no one was. called to speak as to his character. The Inspector of Banks stated that the amount of his defalcations are about L3UOU, and described them as most infamous frauds.

CHRISTOHURCH. March 28. The Selwyn Council, at a meeting to-day, unanimously agreed to the resolutions passed at the recent "Conference of Mayors and Chairmen of Counties. A letter, was read from the Colonial St-eretary, stating that the whole of the fun is accruing in County Selwyn, up to June 30th, will be apportioned to the Koad Boards :' as, though the County Council have brought the whole Act into force, thev cannot legally assume the control of the funds till Jul,y7 The Council decided to request tho Government to re-consider the ap-.joi'tionmeot of the funds. The Boa d of Governors of' Canterbury College to-day decided 10 enlar e the College building by ejecting another wing. The Board appointed W. S. Avery, of Australia, master of the model farm. ;

The weather to-day has be;n tremendously

hot. Stephen Massett gives an entertainment here this evening. It is reported that the New Guinea expedition lias been abandoned.