LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1246, 13 January 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PBB UMITED PRESS ASSOCIATION], WELLINGTON, This day. Upwards of 180 applications have been received, applying for the zight to participate in the £6OOO granted by Parliament last Session. With reference to the tend ers for the New Zealand Loan, which were opened yesterday, the Government notify that tendes for a million and a half were received. Tenderers at ninety-eight poun.ds eleven shillings received four-fifths, and four hundred and fifty thousand pounds were allotted above that rata. The Stella, which arrived from the South to-day, brings intelligence of a somewhat serious misfortune as having happened to a settler on the West Coast of the South Island. Mr Stevenson, formerly Manager of the Colonial Bank at Palmerston South, having bonght a station and an eight-roomed house at Paringa, on the West Coast, was conveyed to the place by the Stella. On arriving he found his house had been burned to the ground, apparently by an incendiary. Mr Stephenson then set to work to build a hut for the temporary accommodation of himself and family, ft is to be hoped that the perpetrator of the outrage will be discovered and punished. DUNEDIN, This Day. The ° Weekly Tablet ” published yesterday says : —“ As some people entertain doubts as to whether Bishop Moran is in earnest, we are authorised to say that if the electors of the penin-ula will do him the honor of returning him to Parliament, he will be found in his place then, and that he will there and elsewhere, devote his best energies to promote their interests.” Bishop Moran’s meeting, last night, was very enthusiastic, but orderly. He only spoke for half an hour, principally on the Education question. A considerable number of questions were answered. The Bishop declared himself strongly in favor of the Land Tax, and he would make land bear a greater proportion of the burden of the state. A vote of confidence was carried. The San Francisco correspondent for the “ Daily Times,” thinks it quite probable that the frozen meat trade from New Zealand may be extended to that country. The ship Dunedin sails to-day for London. She takes 8,271 carcases of mutton, almost the whole of which are shipped by the New Zealand and Australian Land ComnapY- thoiv Poxoora oxxA Totara estates. AUCKLAND, This Day. A private letter which has been received, states that the barque A. T. Stall enet, arrived at New Bedford from this port on Dec. 4th, after a perilous passage, lasting 105 days. During a fierce and neavy gale two seas broke on the vessels deck in succession, carrying Captain Smith and two men clean overboard ; the former, and another man succeeded in catching and holding on to the main braces until rescued by the crew ; but the third man, Henry Boyle was drowned. Boyle shipped at Auckland. The gale did considerable damage to the vessel, carrying everything moveable from the deck, and completely wrecking the cabins. Alexander Cochrane died from sunstroke, while working on the railway cutting at Mercury Bay. The highest bid for the cross-country horse Angler, made at the sales to-day, was £35. The horse was withdrawn. A bushman named Cunningham, attempted to commit suicide at Northen Wairoa by stabbing himself in the neck and breast. He said his mate Patterson, was drowned some time since in the Northern Wairoa, and he had instigated him to do it. He had been drinking. Some time ago £BOO worth of jewellery was stolen from a passenger on the steamer Wellington, and several members of the crew were committed for the offence. £4O worth of jewellery was to-day found in an oilcan on board the steamer.