LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 428, 24 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.) WELLINGTON. May 23. In Chambers this morning, Mr Gordon Allen, on behalf of Gleich, the bankrupt defaulter, applied for a rule nisi, calling upon the gaoler to show cause why the writ of habeas corpus should not issue. Application granted, : and writ made returnable on Wednesday. Monday next will be declared a Municipal Holiday. It is understood Sir Hercules Robinson, accompanied by Lady Robinson, will make a flying visit to Auckland about the end of June. Their stay will be a little over a week. The report on alleged roll stuffing has been received, and according to it there is no doubt that roll stuffing had taken place, but that all parties appear to have been equally culpable. It considers the removal of the Revising Officer not without justification, but was inopportune, and the action of his successor open to censure. An attempt was made to wreck the night train at Feilding, by placing a large sapling twenty-five feet long across rails. It was observed in time by the engine driver. Several new insolvencies are reported to-day. , The Colonial Architect has just completed drawings and plans of new Post and Telegraph Offices.to- be erected at Wellington. Both will be in one building, at the corner of Grey-street and Custom-House Quay, the present site. It will be three stories high, of brick stuccoed front* concrete foundations, and slate roof. The building will be surmounted by a handsome toweir with illuminated cldck, at such an elevation that the figures may be- seen day or

night for a distance of two miles, and furnished with a bell of sufficient power to be heard at a’distance of five Tenders for the whole work will be called in the course of a fortnight. The frontages will b,e 172, feet by 174 feet. There is great stagnation in all business circles, such as, has not been known for very many years. CAMBRIDGE. May 23. The following notice, in Maori and English, is posted here at Land Court —“ In consequence of the serious affection of the throat from which the Native Minister is suffering, it is absolutely necessary to rest from business till Monday next. (Sighed), S. Waddington, M.D.” GISBORNE. May £3. Robert Cooper, native land speculator, and John Brodie, were arrested and lodged in lock-up for Breach of Arms Act, for supplying a Native with a double-barrelled gun and ammunition. Cooper and Brodie were bailed out on sureties of £BOO each. 0 AMARU.. May 23. Grain market quiet. Wheat advancing—now quoted at 3s 6d for first-class samples. Other cereals unaltered. Grand National Steeplechase tomorrow. Twenty-six jumps, over wood gorse and fences, stone-walls, and water jumps. The favorites are Silverstieam for Maiden, Agent for Handicap, Te Whotu for Cup. DUNEDIN. May 23. Geo. McLean, M.H.R., addressed his constituents last evening. Having announced himself an opponent of the present Government, his whole speech was an attack on their action, including Electoral Bill, Native policy, special wire, advertising, and the deficiency on Land Revenue, and added if Government did not borrow soon, the financial crisis would be intensified. A vote of confidence was passed in a hearty manner.