LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 125, 21 June 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] WELLINGTON. June 20. Fifty Chinamen arrived to-day from Ota,c;o to he employed by Oakes, railwaycontractor. Another hitch is to arrive shortly. These are the first Chinamen employed in the province. HAMILTON. June 20, Largo meetings are being held in every township in Waikato, in favor of Government retaining office, for the settlement of the Abolition question. At Hamilton a most influential meeting, carried a resolution to this effect—That the Opposition had broken its pledge in bringing forward a sidewind motion, in place of a motion for the repeal of Abolition Bill ; also that the occupation of the Piako Swamp by a company was an unrnixed benefit to the district, as it could not be occupied by small settlers.” Meetings at Cambridge, Te AWamutu, and Alexandra, passed similar resolutions. TTMARU* June 20 John McGregor, accountant, formerly clerk of the Supreme Court, Christchurch, poisoned himself and Wife tins morning. Both are dead. An inquest will bo held to-morrow.

LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS'. AUCKLAND. June 20. The Hero has arrived from Sydney. MELBOURNE. The National Reform League has adjourned the consideration of the petition asking for the recal of the Governor. Roberts played billiards with Alberts, giving him four hilildl'ecl in a thousand. Roberts scored out when Alberts had only made 686. Roberts’ ’longest break was 16D, including fifty from one spot. ADELAIDE. The Press is crying out, that ttnloss public woiks are pushed on, immigrants brought out will be in want. Boyce, a partner in Fairlie’s Engine Company is coming to Brisbane, with an engine to prove to the Government tli; merit of the patent, Elizabeth Hmisefield, charged with the murder of her husband by poisoning, and Thomas Bonnet', With being accesso y, were both committed for trial. A women named Mrs Curley, cohabiting with a man named Novett. a digger, has been found murdered in the hush on Hodgkiuson Riv'ci'. Doth her anus were chopped oil Hall, overseer of the Isle station whilst playing leap-frog, fell, broke his neck, and died instantaneously, Launceston. The smelting furnaces at the British Tasmanian Charcoal Company’s works, West Tamar, are now in full operation. The first cast yielded sixteen tons of very fine' metal.