LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 172, 2 December 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] CHRISTCHURCH. November 30. A complete illicit distillery apparatus has been tumid on the premises of a farmer named James Hamilton, Waitohi Flat. Hamilton is now under arrest. The Christchurch bakers announce that after December Ist, bread will be 0d the 41b loaf. WhIHHNGTON. November 30. The Gazette publishes Orders in Council fixing the boundaries of Counties and Ridings in the Wellington district. In the Court of Appeal, re tfic Rees bequest, which affects Die Wanganui School and the • Wellington Education Board, Mr George Hart appeared for Die trustee under Die will, Mr Chapman for the heir-at-law. Mr Brandon for the Education Board, and Goidon Allen for the Solicitor-General. Mr Chapman opened the case, which will occupy the Court a'.! this afternoon. Chapman' continued to speak for a considerable time on the Rees bequest case. After he concluded, Messrs Hart,’Allen and Brandon addressed the Court vary briefly. The Court intimated that they would find a decree in favor of the Wellington Education Board. The minutes of the decree are to be prepared by Mr Brandon and submitted to the other counsel and then to the Court. Some discussion ensued as to the form which Die decree should take.

la the Court of Appeal, the ease of Brogden versus the Queen, on the question of the introduction of immigrants, was arguea to-day before a full bench. The question in dispute was mainly of a technical character as regarded the pleadings. The Crown abandoned the first plea, and the Court upheld the second as. good.

Ih'Ogdeii was successful on the third p; a thus gaining a point by narrowing the issue to the second plea only, in which it is considered doubtful whether the defendants will succeed. Travers appeared fur Drug-don, and Allen, instructed by the Solicitor-General, for the Ortwin December 1 O'Shea reports produce prices us follows : —Flour, £l7 10s to £lB ; oats 2s 9d to 3s 2d ; bran, Is to Is 2d ; wheat (milling), no sale ; chicks, 4s Gd to 4s 9d; bacon, Gd to Bid; cheese, 9d to lOd ; pollard, 3s lOd ; maize 4s Gd ; hams 9id_ to lOd ; potatoes, old, 70s, no sale ; new, os to 6s. It is understood that the Government expect to have the whole of the elections for County Councils over by the 16th mst. The following newspapers have been successful tenderers for the Government advertising ; —Gtago Daily Trines, Marlborough Express, Taranaki News, West Coast Times, Nelson Colonist, and Lyttelton Times. It is not yet decided which Hawke’s Bay paper is successful. The Governmc-n Gasette will be the only advertising medium used at Wellington and Auckland, The Auckland papers all tendered at the same price, which was considered too high. KUMAR A. November 30. The Ktimara Sports Committee have collected nearly £3OO, and issued a programme for four days’ sport, amongst the prizes being one of £llO for a challenge handicap foot race., £4O guineas for another handicap, and £75 for wrestling. Nominations close on December 7th. A U S T 11 A L I A 3SL [ Feu Albion.] -V MELBOURNE. November 23. The Swiss Bordietti lies under sentence of death for the murder of a prisoner, an old man and a foreigner. The Alfred Hospital scandal is beingwell ventilated.

The English Cricketers are at present in Melbourne. Their bowling is their strong point. Large numbers witnessed their practice on the Melbourne ground. They play in Sydney on the 7th December, Another bank defaulter has been discovered. A clerk in the Union Bank is some hundreds in arrears, but the matter has been settled by bis friends. There was no prosecution.