LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 3, 21 April 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

PRESS AGENCY*. ' WELLINGTON. “ April 17. At llio wool snle yesterday, 84 bales ewes wool, in grease, brought 9|>d per lb; 14 bales .lambs’ wool, per lb ; 14 bales Merino, 11-J d per lb. A number of other lots went at easy prices. At a sale of light saddles horses, prices ranged from £G Gs to £7. The authorities arc in rather a fix as to Avhat to do with the immigrants per Edwin Fox. The quarantine island has not been fumigated since last used by previous immigrants. Low fever is raging at the four immigration barracks. April 19, The Hon. W. IT. Reynolds sailed for Auckland this afternoon per Taranaki. The Census for 1874 just issued. The population of the Colony up to the 31st Marcli, 1874, was 299,514, of whom 4,510 were Chinese. Males, 170,981; females, 128,538. The Provincial returns are—Auckland, 67,451; Taranaki, 5,-165 , Wellington, 29,790 ; Hawke’s Bay, 9,228 ; Marlborough, 6,145 ; Nelson, 21,558; Westland, 14,860; Canterbury, 58,775; Otago, 85,113. In Electoral District of Egmont, 1821, as follows—males, 1027 : females, 794. Arrived—Barque Edwin Fox, after a long passage of 114 days from Gravesend, with -2ir> statute adults. All well. There were five deaths and six births during the passage. BLENHEIM. April 19. A smart shock of an earthquake was experienced at 1.45 this morning. The direction took north-south. DUNEDIN. April 19. MrE. J. Upliam, lately of Wellington, and now inspector’s accountant of the Colonial Bank, proceeds on Wednesday to Napier to assume the managership of the Colonial Bank opened there. M A ETON. The nomination of candidates for the Rangitikei scat took place to-day. The show of bauds were—Watt, 17 ; Balia nee, 15 ; Hutchison, 5. NAPIER. April 17. The annual value of rateable property in the town of Napier is £45,000. Ormond, member for Porangahau in the Provincial Council, does not come forward again. Much sickness prevails still, though on the declimo

CHRISTCHURCH. April 17. At an inquest this afternoon a verdict of manslaughter was returned against Janet McKinJ.y, for causing the death of her infant child- The circumstances of the case are th so: —On Monday last the husband of Janet McKinly was sentenced to three months, for brutally assaulting his wife, who had only been confined ten days before. On Tuesday Mrs McKinley drew a sum of money owing to her husband, and laid about in house drinking whiskey, which she sent her children for, until Friday, when, acting on information received, the police wont to her house and found her in bed very drunk with the infant lying behind her dead. The whole place and the children were in a filthy state. The evidence at the inquest showed that Mrs. McKinley first found the infant dead on Thursday morning, or about thirty hours before the police went to the house ; during this time she was continually the worse for liquor, and had taken no steps for the removal of the dead body The medical evidence proved that the child died from want of food and general neglect.