LATEST TELEGRAMS. (From our own Correspondent.) Thames, Last Night.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 19, 13 October 1883, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS. (From our own Correspondent.) Thames, Last Night.

NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL. A hundred weight and a-half of specimens came to hand to-day.

[Per Press Association.] Auckland. Last Night. The assault case, Wickham v. Dr Harrison, adjonrned till to-morrow. Mr Peacock, M.H.R., having telegraphed to the Minister for Public Works in reference to the delay in pressing on the railway between Hamilton and Morrinsville, received a reply from the Minister to-day stating that plans, specifications, and advertisements ware foi warded by yt&terday's steamer. Arrived—The barque Laira, 117 days from London. The ma-tor reports having passed a full-ringed ship, supposed to be the Hermione, bound for this port, on the 10th inst. At the Police ClourtC 1 ourt tr-day, Auguate Raffin was charged with attempting to defraud his creditors by ren^ ing floods from Ngunguiu. A number of cieditors deposad to ha\ ma- unsatisfied d^bN against prisoner, and his depaiting suddenly south and being arrested on board the steamer. The lease of the market has been bought by T. B. Hill for Mr Macdonald for £G7opcr annum, being £17 over last year. Market reports to-day are without material alteration from last week. Sharemarket.—Success, 13s 6d ; Darwin, 3s 7d ; Werahiko, 6s ; New Find, 8s 6d. The Bay of Islands Steam Navigation Company declared a dividend of 10 per cent. Cornelius Gillett, of Cambridge, received dangerous injury by the ex-plosion of a gun while shooting. He will lose the siuht of one eyp. The City Council have appointed a public analyst to take a*i analyst of the city water siinpiy at stated points in the cit^v. and at vai) ing penods of the year. At the Diocp^'in Synod a resolution has been submitted unring that facilities be givent'or lvhtrimw instruction in schools, School Committees should have power to regulate school hours. Dr Riehatdson has restored <ight to a girl, aged 18, named Fowler, daughter of a schoolmaster living at Maungatauroto, who has been blind finm birth.

Dvn tei>in, Last Night. At 3 o'clock Edwardo had walked 79 miles 18 laps, while Scott had covered 80 miles 8 laps.

Timaiju. La-t Night • Ak'xamlei Southeihiml, 40. unmairitidj who w.is run over by a ballast wa^on at Albury Extension line yesteiday, ami whose leg was amputated, sin vived operation only four hours.

Wellington, Last Night. At the magistrates Com t to-day, Edward Mullen, on th« charge of arson in con', nectiun with the fire at hi l-boarding house at Taw a Flat, was committed for trial, b iil allowed himself in XjOO and two BUi"' iti«'s <>f £-50 each. Tin 1 body e>J' Ili-iir^ Woodward Williams, one of the principal clerks in t l ic )ic;kl <iept. of lI.M. Customs who has been i. i^^ing since the 2nd in^t. was picked up in the harbour this afternoon, close i,> the Queens whi.if. The g.-ih-nil supposition is that he had hern diinkinu, .'nd, by the appoaii ncu of thi' body, it Lid been in the wutei some days. An inquest will be held. Ministeis will mcoL next week. The Hon. Mr Connelly i- oxpectcd to return to-mtiht, the Hon. Mr.s>rt> Oliver and Dick r»n {Sunday, and tin' Tlon, Major Atkinson on Tui hday. Se\t-ial uigent matter.-- will it i« ii!'de)s|ooi|, conic before the Cabinet on theii meeting. The Poiics' luu'C drawn the attention of th<- City Count il (o the means of egress fioin the S.ilwti'in tlu.itie, .uid it has been ]<'i 1 to the Ci f > »Sim<'3orto de<l:d'j as to wh t:u tiofi "-hoiild hi tiken. An amusing dincnsMon tool, pla« #c ,i.s to whether it was a, p' iee of " ivor hijj " oj- <i pl.tcu uf j entcttuinineril. !

An fifherlisunent api-pai^ ij} our a'lvprtiain« column-, call. ng ii i icijde I,^1 ,^ for roads in tha W-utoa i^ua'l isoai*J District. MrNapper, pf baridef. uu'l N upper, Eujp'nfers for tlic Boai'l, will Lo on the gioun I oji Tuesday next 1 16th itiHfc., to hhow Uiutn ling wn ioicih the I'ftrwuh^yjLf Ivi which tmiuia mm caiioJ.