LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 240, 16 August 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PEE PRESS AGENCY. WELLINGTON. Friday. Quick retires for the Hutt in favor of Mason. The Premier, after leaving Christchurch goes to Invercargill. He is expected to return to Wellington on the 31st, and will leave almost immediately • foii. the North, speaking at Auckland, Napier, and the Thames.

The report that the five million loan has been subscribed is contradicted.

During the quarter ending Juno the imports to the colony valued £1,791,264; corresponding quarter, £1,550,273. Exports last quarter, £1,592,580, as against £1,186,412 for the corresponding quarter last year.

The stamp duty collected at Wellington last year was LS3,GSG. The Wellington Fusilier Guards, a new corps, is being formed. The question raised as to Fisher's disqualification for election is likely to be settled by the Law Officers of the Crown.

Charles O'Ml'is talked of as another candidate for Wellington. Matheson, the jockey, has been remanded on two charges of larceny.

Part of the reclaimed land mystery has been cleared up. The basket of.' clothes were left at the breastwork in mistake by an expressman. The female ;,screams heard by the two policemen are still unexplained. ' The writs for the new elections will be issued on Monday, and made returnable on the 17th or 18th of next month.

* The Governor to-day issued a proclamation dissolving Parliament, which is prorogued till Ist September.

The Governor and Lady Robinson, with Captain Maxwell, of H.M.S. Emerald, leave for Kelson to-night in the Hinemca, The Governor and Lady Robinson go to visit Maier Robinson at the Collego, and return on Monday. . The City of Sydney mail steamer, with London mails to lfth July, left San Francisco on the 14th instant, her due date.

The Australia, with the July colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco on the 13th insfc., one day in advance of her due date.

DUNEDIN. Friday There was a proposal under consideration to amalgamate the Commercial and Union Building Societies. Hawkins, secretary to the latter, was requested by the Directors to furnish a list of the liabilities and assets, This not being forthcoming yesterday, he called on Mr Nation, the company's solicitor, with a statement showing £l4oo'deficient, and at the same time handing to him a box containing strychnine/which he said lie contemplated using. As a result of an investigaum of the books by the Directors he was locked up. It now transpires that he was a defaulter to the Kaitangata Coal Company and the Church Society. The charges of embezzlement were partially gone into. Bail was refused.