LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1248, 16 January 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PER UNITED FBKBB ASSOCIATION], BLENHEIM, This day. The body of the child drowned in the Opawa River a week ago, has been recovered in uii advanced state of decomposition. At the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. GREYMOUTH, This day. A telegram from Charleston says that at 11 o’clock the St. Kilda was passing there in tow of the Dispatch, all apparently going well. Later. The St. Kilda was towed in this morning. The damage consists of the combustion box having fallen in. It is expected the repairs will occupy a fortnight. DUNEDIN, This Day. At the Peninsula nominations Messrs Donnelly and Larnach, and Bishop Moran were proposed. The show of hands was largely in favor of Bishop Moran. A man named W. E. Heath, was arrested yesterday on a charge of committing a criminal assault on Lucy Brown, aged eight years, at th* West Taieri, on the 3rd inst. He was brought up at the City Police Court in the afternoon, and remanded till to-day. A man named Bewley, for a similar offence committed on a girl twelve years of age, near the Botanical Gardens, has been committed for trial. This afternoon, two lads employed in a butcher’s shop at Port Chalmers had quarrelled about a knife, and the dispute ended in one named White, driving the knife through the thigh of the other named Harnock. White was arrested and expresses his sorrow for his hasty action. WELLINGTON, This day. Mr Gamble, the Auckland agent of the Paeific Mail Company, and Mr Ormstead, the special agent sent from America to make arrangements relative to the renewal of the San Francisco Mail contract, arrived by the Ringarooma this morning. They will have an interview to-morrow with the Premier and the Postmaster-General, but it is understood that no definite agreement can be come to until the views of New South Wales are distinct!}' pronounced, as the matter must largely the action of that colony. New South Wales objects to the loss of time experienced in the deviation to Auckland and it is probable that the substitution of Russell as a port of call will be strongly urged on the New Zealand Government. The man Casey, who met with a serious accident a few days ago, whilst working at the Kaiwarra, still lingers at the Hospital. The poor fellows head is found to be badly injured by the bonlder which fell upon it, George Alsdon, an apprentice belonging to the ship Lady Jocelyn, met with rather a nasty accident on board the vessel. He was incauiiously moving about in the sail room, which is in a constant state of darkness, when he suddenly stumbled over a hatchway, and fell a distance of about ten or twelve feet, landing on some rough stone ballast. He was much cut about the nose and upper lip. In the course of his sermon at St Mark’s Church on Sunday evening, the Rev. R. Coffey preaching from the 9th verse of the Sth chanter of Acts, referred in strong terms of condemnation to the position taken by Mr Milner Stephen with regard to his alleged powers of healing, and argued that while the gentleman mentioned persisted in attributing possession of his gift as direct from j God for the good of mankind, or for any j special godly service he put himself in the • position of the Prophets and Apostles whose gift of power to work miracles was creden- 1 tial, proving them to be messengers of God, i for the exercise of which they dared not, and did not, receive money, and Mr Milner Stephen dare not take money for the exercise of this gift (if it be a gift) without putting himself in the position of Simon, and all who countenanced him by their presence were equally guilty. The Rev. Mr Coffey mentioned that a number of persons had asked him to certify that they were not in a position to pay the fee demanded by Mr Stephen, viz., two guineas, and said he thought such a charge would amount in a year to at least £lO,OOO, rather a good price for a gift which Mr Stephen asserted had been betowed upon him for the benefit of humanity at large, while the manner of receiving it freely was rather a humiliating way of deriving benefit from God’s gift. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, T. Knigge, proprietor of the Brunswick Hotel, was fined £lO and £2 costs, on a charge of adulterating beer with sulphuric acid. From the evidence it appeared that there had been no wilful intention to adulterate but that the jar from which the beer was sold had previously contained sulphuric acid. It is probable a charge of Sunday trading will emanate from this case. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The rumor is current that Messrs Robin- ' son and Lance intend to proceed against the Stewards of the C. J. C., of the Summer the Race Meetingfor the recovery of stakes of Midsummer Two-year-old Handicap, on the ground that they were improperly awarded to the owners of Helena. The Handicap was a sweepstake of ten sovs. each, with £2OO added. AUCKLAND, This Day. Sergeant Martin and I >ctective Strathern, continued their search in the steamer Wellington yesterday, for plants of the late jewellery robbery on board that vessel. Further deposits were discovered in the bilgewater in the shaft tunnel. There is still £3OO worth undiscovered.