LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 168, 18 November 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] NE l\ r PLYMOUTH. Novembe 14. The charge of libel instituted by the Commissioner of Waste Lands against the Budget was withdrawn yesterday morning. The Budget last evening says, in writing tlie articles referred to, he had not the slightest intention of imputing to Mr Whitcombe that his minutes were incorrectly entered by him or through his agency. Each party pays their own costs. November 17. At Mr W. Courtney’s cattle sale, yesterday, the attendance was large. 95 head were yarded. Fat Cattle fetched 23s per 100 lbs ; three-year-old steers, £6 17s GJ to £6 ; cows, £4 5s to £5 ; handfed heifers, £4 17s 6d to £8 12s Gd ; store ewes in wool, T2s 6d. NAPIER. November 13. The telegraph station at Porongahau was struciv by lightning on Saturday at one o’clock, the wire being fused and a quantity of telegraph forms set on lire in the office. WELLINGTON. Novembei 12. An attempted murder and suicide occurred at Kaiwarra this morning Tlios. Coleman shot his wife, Florence, through the body. He then put the pistol behind his own ear and discharged it, but the bullet only just grazed the skull It is doubtful whether the woman will recover, she being over 50 years of age. The man is not seriously injured. The cause of the rash act is .jealousy, but is. said to be quite unfounded. November 13, 'Coleman,who attempted the murder of bis wife, has been remanded for a week. • The Times announces that efforts are being made to, initiate a reciprocal press telegraph system for This colony. The principle of the Association, it says, is that each member of it shall supply the

others with telegraphic intelligence, and that only-.one newspaper in each place shall be 'a member. The foil owing..■newspapers are to be excluded from the Association :— Otago- Daily Times, Canterbury Press, New Zealand Times, and Southern Cross. As to cablegrams, that a person in Australia shall be employed at £SO per annum to take European telegrams from Australian papers, and forward them to Now Zea'and ; the Otago Guardian to be the medium for cablegrams. The Times condems the proposed schema for the distribution of ■ New Zealand news as bad, and the arrangement regarding cablegrams aa unfair, and likely to be utterly useless. The Court of Appeal opened this morning, the Chief Justice and Justices Johnston and Williams being on the Bench. There are seven cases, live being from Otago and Southland, and one from Otago. November 17.

A deputation of six Italian immigrants waited on the Italian Consul this morning and stated they and many of their countrymen were in a Starving state, as they could obtain no work. They stated they wera allowed to sleep at the Immigration Depot, but had to find their own food, and, as they had no money they had to go without food. The Consul stated that the Italian Government did not authorise him to afford them any relief, and he advised them to represent their case to the Premier. They did so, and the Premier informed them that they could remain, and would be fed for a short time longer at the depot, until work was found for them, or they were sent up country. HOKITIKA. November 17. A. Leslie reports on Mount Ilangiioto Silver Mine as follows ; —The company have three tunnels, one sixty feet, carrying defined veins, ore averaging eighteen inches wide, one ten feet in one large rich vein nearly four feet thick. He considers all these lodes highly valuable, one large vein visible from oiitciop will yield over four hundred ounces of silver to the ton of ore. The ore from the thirty-five feet tunnel will give a high yield of seven hundred ounces of silver to the ton. About twelve tons of ore are paddocked, which will give all round, a yield of four hundred ounces of silver to the ton. The lodes appear to improve in richness as greater depths are obtained. He considers the mine equal, if not superior, to Californian mines. Shares scarce at £3 j rcmium.

GREYMOUTII. November 13. The whole of the capital of the Greymouth and Knmara tramway was subscribed in two days, and operations will be commenced at once. CHRISTCHURCH. November 13. Twenty-six entries have been received for the Derby of 1878, comprising— Dclamain, 4 ; It. Wilkin, 3 ; Mallock, 1 ; Eraser, 1 ; Webb, 2 ; Nosworthy, 5 ; Vincent & Co , 1 ; Watt, 2 ; C. F. Money, 2 ; Redwood, 3 ,' Murphy, 1 ; and R. Campbell, 1. Tin*, salmon ova received from America by the mail steamer are hatching out splendidly, dcarcely any of the ova was bad. November 17. Produce quotation.", f.o.b. at Lyttelton ;—Wheal scarce, and in demand at Gs ; for milling, chicken 4s. to 4s, 6d flour, £ls in sacks, stocks very livid, and higher rates are probable ; bran, £C> ; sharps, £G ; butter, !Id ; dices.■, S.Vd ; hams and bacon, d?i ! ; rye. grass, 6s, potatoes, £5, stocks lighter. Laud Sales for October Were £27,786.

DUNEDIN. November 13. At rt meeting’ of the .shareholders of the National Insurance Company to-day, there wo'-e 25 parsons present.- The report was unanimously adopted. For the half-year the receipts were £51,890 ; and the expenditure £38,461. A dividend at the rate of 20 per cent, per annum was declared, and the balance, £8,420, carried forward. No addition was made to the reserve fund, consequent upon heavy losses, amounting to £25,461. Mr G. Proudfoot asked a question respecting the refusal to pay the claim of the owners of the Czarewitch. Mr Lantech replied that the relation contained in the ship’s log was such as to justify the action of the Board, and in appeal they only acted upon the advice of their solicitors. He did not think that proper caution would injure the Company, and had they not taken this course they would have been liable to the accusation of parting too readily with money. Mr Proudfoot said he was satisfied with the replies. An unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to the Directors. o LATEST AUSTRALIAN [.Per Arawata/] Melbourne. It has been a regular carnival week. The attendance on the Derby day numbered about 25,000. and on the Cup day over three times that number, All tiie first three horses in the Cup were by the same sire—Tim Whiffler. The English cricketers reached Adelaide all well, and play their first match there next week. The extraordinary case at the Alfred Hospital, where a pair of buil-dog forceps and a sponge were sewn up in the body of a woman after an operation, has been inquired into by a coroner’s jury, who acquitted the operating surgeon of all blame. The matter has been much talked about and commented upon.