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LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

' (per pe-ess agency.) TVELLIKSTOS. Tuesday, Pilot Holmes boarded tho ship Matilda last night and brought her into harbor this morning. • It is understood that the Triennial Parliament's Rill is not to come into operation until the expiration of the present ■ Parliament. The first balance sheet of the Wellington Tramway Company has been issued. It shews that £9,018 were received for fares during the last twelve months, wnile the ' current expenses, including renewals, maintenance, &c, for the same period amount to £3,314 The item interest is ! £1955. The erection of a new powder magazine at Kaiwarra will be commenced in a few days. Parliament will be opened by Commission to-moirow at two o'clock. The Stewards of the Racing Club will ask the Governor to become patron to the Club. The Executive Commissioner at Sydney is of opinion that tho New Zealand Commission should not encourage exhibits of live-stock to be forwarded, as the stock would require attendants, which, together with freight, would entail considerable expense, not to mention the risk in forwarding. The Mayor is in communication with the Colonial Secretary in order to promote the establishment of an orphanage. Pearce absolutely declined to allow himself to be nominated for the mayoral election. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at four this morning. The Opposition members held a caucus this morning, but nothing of any consequence was done.. GISBORNE. Tuesday. Mve natives have been arrested and committed for trial at the Supreme Court for forcibly intruding upon settlers' land in this district. NELSON. Tuesday. No further news re the Messenger or two boats. GRAHAMSTOWN. Tuesday. The disaffected tribes are erecting two large pahs; one three or four hundred yards from the'r netilement on the "Waihou river, and the other on a oranch of the Paiho river, about three miles :rom Okatukura. The latter pah is surrounded on one side by a swamp and on the other by a creek. The native sgent here having informed the Government that the disaffected hapu having tent down word that no steamer would be allowed to pass up the Waitoa river, and the steamer Eoriro being compelled to go up the Piako instead, this morning took up 30 stand arms and 2,000 rounds of ammunition for distribution among the settlers. AUCKLAND. Monday. A telegraphist named Beale observed some smoke issuing from die cellar of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.'s drugstore to-night. He gave the alaim, and tho bell sounded, creating great excitement. The Fire Brigades turned out, and water was turned on the smoke. An examination made subsequently, showed that a jar of phosphorous had been broken, and the fumes were mistaken for lire. Slight damage was done by water, but nothing serious. H.M.S. Cormorant has arrived here. She landed Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji at Levuka, after his return from England. He was heartily welcomed.

Captain Kilgour, of the schooner Mystery, has been fined £IOO, for burning a native village at Toba, when recovering a boat taken from his vessel in the previous year.

The treaty signed between England and Samoa guarantees to British subjects, all the rights granted to ;he most favored nation. Samoa relieves them of all military requisition and guarantees them possession of land purchased. It also provides that British subjects shall be tried by the High Commißßisners' Court for Polynesia, The treaty gives England the J

right to establish a coaling'or naval station in Samoa.

Seven seamen of the ship Minister of Marine, including Gale, who brought the charge of cruelty against the captain, and most of his witnesses, were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, to-day, for insubordination, DUNED.IN. Monday. A school for wrestling was opened here this evening. The cricket clubs are preparing for th coining season, Mr Watt, R.M., attended at the gaol today, and remanded Waters, accused of incendiarism, for a week. These is a disposition of abandon the Police Court case against Waters, Mr Denmston, his counsel, affirms that ho has obtained important additional evidence favorable to accused, and is anxious to bring it forward. A man named Mason was sentenced to one month's imprisonment at the Police Court for assuring a creditor of his that he had never been bankrupt nor had a bill of sale on his property. These statements were false, and induced the creditors to give prisoner extended credit. .

A batch of sly grog cases were heard before the Resident Magistrate at Lawrence to-day, and the following accused were fined;—Oni Ring, Chinese camp, £10; Bulfin Ter Tinu, Tuapeka West, £2O; Clydemar, Mount Stewart, £SO; and Dunn, Waitahuna Gully, £lO. One .case was dismissed, and another adjourned,

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 272, 24 September 1879, Page 2

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768

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 272, 24 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 272, 24 September 1879, Page 2

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