LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1593, 18 June 1872, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, June 17. I Mr Henry Thomson, a passenger by I the Nebraska from Dunedin, haa gone to the Hospital, suffering from small-pox. He says that other two passengers by the Nebraska, who went on to San Francisco, were similarly affected, but did not know the nature of the disease. Later news from Samoa reports that Capt. Hayes, after undergoing an examination by the captain of the Narraganset, was released for want of evidence.

Napiee, June 17. The Provincial Council has been prorogued by the Superintendent, who made no speech. ■Wellington, June 17. On Saturday it was rumored that there was a case of small-pox at the Te Aro end of ttite town. An enquiry showed that Mr Kaye, recently mail agent on board the Nebraska, had been attacked with small-pox in a mild form. The Government immediately sent Dr Johnson, the Health Officer, who advised the removal of Mr Kaye to the quarantine ground The patient acquiesced in the removal, and, along with two men of the Armed Constabulary, with medical comforts, was at once sent off. If the patient hod not agreed to the removal, in the absence of a Public Health Act he must have remained at his residence. The disease is only mild. The Government has instructed the Board of Health at Auckland to take precautions against the introduction of small-pox in vessels coming from San Francisco. The mail bags are to be fumigated. The Appeal Court gave judgment today in the case of Mr Smythies. It regretted that it could not grant the prayer of the petition, as Mr Smythies had not satisfied the Court that his conduct had been absolutely upright, as required by the Act. The Court, in passing judgment, also said that the charges made by the tnemberß of the profession against Mr Smythies, which were not disproved, compelled the Court to arrive at the decision that the conduct of the petitioner in Dunedin was deserving of censure, and such as to disentitle him to readmission to practice. In the appeal case, Belcher v. Southern Insurance Company, judgment has been given for defendants. There are several cases of scarlet fever in a mild form. At auction to-day, oatmeal fetched £L3 ; potatoes, 4& 6d to 4s 9d. Wangantji, June 17. The steamer Wanganui, when leaving on Saturday, cracked her boiler at the Heads. She put back for repairs. Nelsott, June 17. Mr O'Connor, M.P.C., has sued Messrs Shepherd, Luckie, Reid, Donne, and Guiness, members of Council, for £100, on a charge of conspiracy to induce the Council to pass a vote of censure on him for his land purchases at Westport. The vote was passed by the Council unanimously. Geeymottth, June 17. The weather has been dreadfully se- . vere. The up-country tracks are impassable, and several accidents have occurred. Dunedin, June 17. Aitken, who was charged with stealing horses belonging to Mr Pritchard, of Mount Ida, was discharged. There was great sensation in Court.