LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1264, 1 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PBR UNITED PHKSS ASSOCIATION J. WELLINGTON, This Day. The customs duties for the month were £21448 ; the corresponding month Is.st year £20,113. The beer duty amounted to £092. The vital statistics for this month are 115 births, 44 deaths, and 19 marriages. Sir Win. Jrrvois held his first ieve® this afternoon, and a large number of gentlemen attended. The Hon. Dr. Pollen, Chairman of the South Island Trunk Railway Extension Commission, left fur the south to-day, to confer with his colleagues before sending in their report. The amount, of defalcations of the absconder Charles White, amount to nearly £l9OO. At a meeting of the Executive Council held this forenoon, the case vf Crowley, recently convicted of murder was considered, aud the sentence of death was commuted to penal servitude for life. WANGANUI, This day. Mr James Booth, at present the R.M. for the Upper Wanganui District, and Native Land Purchase Agent for this District, has been appointed Resident Magistrate, Native Trust Commissioner, and Native Agent at Gisborne, fur Poverty Bay aud the East Coast District to East Cape, iu the room of Matthew Price, Esq., who retires through illness. CHRIS!CHURCH, This Day. In the Divorce Court, Pippiewell v. Pipplewell and Clifford, the petitioner obtained a rule n si fur a divorce from iris wife, whom he married in 1878. The parties were all in humble life in the Wairoa District, the petitioner being a laborer, and the co-respon-dent a carpenter. The adultery was clearly proved, and the decree granted as prayed. DUNKDIN, This Day. A singular case of some importance occupied the Supreme Court yesterday, that of Bailey v. The Union Bank of Australia (Limited.) The plaintiff was a chemist in Invercargill, and his case was, that his wife had made a “purse of her own from the proceeds of his business, which she had paid into the Bank in her own name, ana afterwards taken it all out of the Bunk without her husbands knowledge or authority. Her relations with her husband were unsatisfactory, and it was alleged that the Bank was aware of this, and was aware also that she was a married woman. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff on all the issues. The amount involved was £641 8s lid.

At the half yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank the shareholders’ report was adopted. The “ Herald ” says, “ Mr George McLean proceeds to England in March, and will be absent for six months, and that the Otago Liw Society intend meeting to consider Judge Gillies reflectioi s on Mr Hesketh.”

AUCKLAND, This Day. A special correspondent of the “New Zealand Herald” at Kawhia telegraphed via Alexandria, that a large number of Natives are assembled at Kawhia to meet and welcome the Hon. J. Bryce, Native Minister. No opposition to the occupation of Kawhia is anticipated. The Kingites fear that, owing to the small area of the township, that complications will arise, owing to resident Native landowners selling laud under pressure of European residents of the township. A great Native meeting is to be held on Friday. Another alleged discovery of diamonds has been made at Pokeno, 40 miles from Auckland.’ A find is also reported within four miles of Auckland, the exact locality of which has not been disclosed. Specimens of the stones found are on exhibition. TAURANGA, This day. The “Bay of Plenty Times” to-day returns to a tri-weekly issue, and in doing so says it is compel’.t dXo do so by the dull times, and falling off of support. The Bay of Plenty “ Times ” states that at Taupo it was reported that the obstructionist at Tokano re survey.road making and laying of land in the vicinity of Tongariro, have been instigated and are supported by a relative of Wahanui, who is at present at Tokano with a party of the Manatipos, from Waikato, and a small number of Hauhaus from Tuhua, the reported goldfields of the Ngatituwharetua tribe. It is said that some of the murderers of Moffatt, the prospectoi, are resident with latter party. NAPIER, r -’bis Day. The Customs revenue for January is £3942. Beer duty stamps £248, being a slight increase in both of the returns for the corresponding month last year.