LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 337, 10 July 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(per press agency.) CHRISTCHURCH,

July 9

Farmers here are taking active leisures to cope with the sparrow nuisance. Meetings are being held in various parts of the country districts to devise means to kill the birds. Poisoned wheat is most generally adopted. The Charitable Aid Board having arranged satisfactorily with Government have now settled down to active work. A shocking affair occurred at Oxford yesterday, shortly before noon. A house in the bush was observed to be on fire. When neighbours reached the spot it was found th at Mrs Hoft, wife of a German who occupied the cottage, was lying on the ground insensible, and with a fearful gash in the head. She was conveyed to the township, but soon after expired. Hoft was arrested during the afternoon, and said that during a quarrel his wife hit him in the face, when he struck her on the bead with a tomahawk. He seemed quite unconcerned at the result of the affair. It is supposed that after striking'his wife, Hoft set fire to the cottage. WELLINGTON. July 9. The Loan and Mercantile Agency report, under date London, July Gth ; —Wool sales closed firmly on the sth. Sales comprised about 200,000 bales, 90,000 of which have been taken for export, and 44,000 held over for future disposal. Trade in the manufacturing district is slightly better.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. £rjsii at Auckland.] MELBOURNE, July 3. ' The Government railway scheme provides for the construction of 1,000 miles of railway .to Wentworth and South Australian border. The snow at Wood’s Point is six feet •deep. The Municipal Loan Conference resolved to consult local bodies regarding the floating of municipal loans in the' London; market. , SYDNEY. July 3. A deputation from the Mlmi Works urged connection of the Great Northern Railway with Sydney. Ministers promised to consider. Howard’s Company There was a water famine in Sydney for two days. The Queensland expedition for New Guinea, leaves Brisbane next month, to prospect for gold. Holloway's Pills and Ointment. —Irritable Bowels.—To be able to arrest the progress of bowel complaints must be a very desirable object : nothing will accomplish this so safely and certainly as Holloway’s Ointment well rubbed twice a-day over the abdomen. It Has an advance over every other astringent since it restrains the purging.without interfering with the stomach or liver. On reaching the bowels this urgent soothes their, irritated lining and simultaneously relieves all griping, purging, vomiting, disagreeable eructations, and gives general ease, without danger of checking the diarrhoea too sudTlenly. In dysentery the same treatment, ided by proper doses of Holloway’s Pills, will allay the excessive training, stop the discharge of slimy matter, and prevent both ulceration and danger. Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the district. R. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. Ho keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of .drapery goods, imported direct —and from the best colonial houses ; which, being bought on the inost advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling quality at pi ices that cannot be improved on by any other bouse tn ICew .ZealandEvery article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people arc as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, witlio.it rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address—ll. A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle. — advt.

STOPPAGE OF WANGANUI HARBOR WORKS. At meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board held on Thursday, the following letter, dated 24th June, was read from Mr Johnson, Officer in charge of Marine Department, Wellington “ I have the honor, by the directions. of the Hon the Commissioner of Customs, to acknowledge th'dTreceipt of the Board's letter No. 202, with reference to the report sent by Sir John Goode, and in reply to inform the Board’that the question of reclaiming the Railway Reserves (the outer wall of which will be in accordance with Sir , John Goode’s plan), is now under the consideration of the Government. The Government are also having a plan prepared, which will embody the whole of Sir John Coode’s recommendations for the improvement of the river, and when this is completed and approved by His Excellency the Governor in Council, a copy, will be forwarded to the Board. This is intended so as to prevent any work being done in a line or lines not approved of in accordance with Sir John Coode’s recommendation.” —A telegram from the Chairman to the Government, was read as follows “Is the Board to understand that the letter from the Government, of the 24th June, cancels their approval of the Engineer’s plans ?”—To this telegram the Secretary read the following reply : “Letter of 24th June does cancel approval of plans.—Signed, R. JoiiNSON.”--MrDuthie a .so read a telegram he had received from Mr Ballauce, “Approval of plans not cancelled; no others accepted.” The letter and first telegram, and that received by Mr Duthie being contradictory, that gentleman contended that Mr Ballance, being one of the Ministry, ought to know better than any departmental officer - what had and what had not been done.