LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1172, 11 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(per united press association). WELLINGTON, This day. Mr C. T. Connolly, member for Picton, has consented to join the Government, and to take office as Minister of Justice. As this will relieve the Hon. T. Dick of one of his offices, it is intended that he shall take the Postmaster Generalship and the Electric Telegraph Commissionership, so that the Hon. W. W. Johnston will be able to devote himself wholly to the Public iv’orks Department. The breach of promise case, Swiney v. Leybourne, was concluded at 5.30 last evening, the jury finding for the plaintiff, and awarding £25 damages. The amount claimed was £2OO.

DUNEDIN, This Day. Bishop Neville, in his opening address at the Synod, referred at some length to the question of effecting a union between the Wesleyans and Episcopalians in Otago, and expressed a hope that at no distant date this would corno to pass. The Papakoro murder case was continued at the Supreme Court yesterday until 5.30 p.m. Eight witnesses were examined, and the case was adjourned till to-morrow. The Zealandia, which arrived from Londontyesterday, experienced terrified weather while crossing the Southern Ocean. Part of her saloon was stove in, she lost her poop Udders, part of her bulwarks, her forecastle and head-rails. The seamen were washed out of the forecastle, and their chests were carried overboard. The Robert Burns Statue Committee has §lven an order to Sir John Steele, The pcestal is to be of grey granite and the basement of Port Chalmers bluestone.

Mr James Mills, the well-known gunsmith and a leading member of the Masonic Fraternity, died yesterday.

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A building, temporarily used as a hotel at Little Akaloa, was burned down last night, together with about £lOO worth of the stock. The work is supposed to be that of an incendiary, as two threatening letters were received by the proprietor, saying that the place would be destroyed if rebuilt. The original building was burnt down at the first of the Akaroa fires, and at the time it was supposed to be through a defective fire-place.

AUCKLAND, This Day. Sergeant Anderson, the marker at the rifle range, was hit in the eye while marking by a piece of spent bullet. The injury was serious, and the wounded man was sent to the hospital.