LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1285, 28 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(VBR united fbess assocuwon), WELLINGTON, Feb. 27, Mr Hutchinson, M.H.R., addressed his constituents, and expressed himself strongly against Government, and especially the pardoning of Te Kooti. At the conclusion a vote of confidence was passed unanimously, and he was presented with an illuminated address and clock from a portion of his constituents. DUNEDIN, Thi« Day. The leases of sixty Otago runs offered at auction to-day present a rental amounting to £21,609 a year; only fifty were sold out, at a total rental of £17,355, Seventeen were passed in without a bid. Of those sold 17 show an increased rental. Two divisions of a Waikouaiti run of Messrs. Orbell, formerly held at £612 a year, were run up to £2,590. This Day. In the R. M. Court to-day a firm of printers, two photographers, and a bookseller were charged with a breach of the Copyright Act in having sold photographs marked " copyright” without having the copyright regutered. Mr Brandon, the Registrar of Copyrights, prosecuted, and was severely crossexamined. Judgment reserved. The Harbor Board assets that vessels of 23 feet draught can now safely cross the bar. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr C. W. Turner has presented the brig Derwent to the Naval Brigade as a training ship. The licensed victuallers have returned their candidate for the committee in the South East Ward, which is the only one in which new licenses can be granted. The following contributions have been forwarded to the Harbor Board for the Sailors’ Home at Lyttelton :—N.Z Shipping Co., Shaw, Saville, and Co., C. W. Turner, and P. Cunningb im, £250 each; Government have given £5OO, and promise £1 for £l. C. W. Turner has been elected Chairman of the Harbor Board.

In the R.M. Court, a widow recovered £2O, excessive interest, and £lO damages for illegal distraint, from H. E. Nathan, she had given a bill for £6O, and received only £49 out of it, which she had at different times, had paid £35, when Nathan demanded a fresh bill for £6O, and on her refusing he distrained.

HOKITIKA, This day. It is believed that payable gold has been struck between Doughton’s and outer end of tunnel of Humphreys Gully, and in Ross’s extended company prospecting shaft. AUCKLAND, This Day. Mrs Slater has submitted for the Hon. Mr Rolleston’s consideration a scheme for bring ing girls out as domestic servants from the rural districts of England. The Presbyterian Assembly dismissed the overture from the Timaru Presbytery relative to disjunction of certain Middle Island Churches in order to negotiate for an union with the Presbyterian Church of Otago. Fiji news says J. M. Murray, formerly of Auckland, is now waiting trial for attempting to shoot his wife, from whom he is judicially separated, and then trying to drown himself,

The proprietors of the Onehnnga Ironworks have sent to America for plant for additional furnaces, to be erected before the end of the year, to smelt ironsand.

Capt, Hume is effecting very considerable changes in Mount Eden Gaol, to allow of the classification of prisoners, Mr Cleary, the new Governor of the Gaol, has been in bad health since his arrival, and is advised by Dr Goldsboro to go South again. NAPIER, This day. Cleared, for London, the barque May Queen, with a cargo of wool and tallow, valued at £49,000, She is the eight vessel from here this season,

After a long and angry correspondence between Mr Sutton, M.H.R., as Chairman of the Hospital, re maintenance, and the Government, the Colonial Secretary has forwarded a cheque for £1057, claimed by the Hospital Committee, as spent during the nine months ending December 31, Hostile criticisms appeal re the separation of the post- and life insurance department. PATEA, This Day John Black, late Treasurer to the Patea County Council, has been committed for trial for the embezzlement of the County funds. Other charges against him are to be heard to-morrow, and in the meantime he Is out on bail.

Tltokowaru’s tribe are passing through Patea on a visit to Waitotara. The old fellow was afraid to come himself, and at the last moment sent the Chief Omauhera as his representative. Thia is the first time these natives have bean thia way since the war of 1808, An information was served on George Beamish, the late collector of the dog tax, to-day, for embezzlement of the County fends. The hearing is fixed for Friday, WANGANUI, This Day. The body of a female half-caste child was found yesterday, on the sea beach. The body was in the water about 8 hours, and it is believed it has been swept down the river. The body has not yet been identified. The County Council has received £2,800 under the Pt y ds and Bridges Coastr ction Act, for improving Field’s track into interior. NELSON, This Day, The Colonist’s Takata correspondent wires that a young man, named Peter Ozenf, was kilted at the mill, of Mr T. Bainet, on Tuesday night, by a junker runner going over him.