LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 273, 25 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PEH PRESS AGENCY,) e. WELLINGTON. Wednesday. Parliament was opened by Commission at two o'clock. All the members present, about seventy, were sworn in by Major Campbell, Grey proposed O'Rorke as Speaker in eulogistic terms. Hall seconded and also referred to O'Rorke in highly complimentary terms. Header Wood and Atkinson congratulated O'Rorke on his election in graceful terms, The House then adjourned till two o'clock to-raor-

The total cost of the new Post Office and Telegraph buildings will not exceed £17,000, exclusive of architects' fees and other contingencies,

The Chronicle announces that Henry Anderson has instructed his solicitors to raise an action (or libel against the proprietor of the Rangitikei Advocate, A new Racing Club is about to be started here. The highest money in any one race will be one hundred pounds. Patrick Sullivan, alias Barry, has been committed for stealing jewelry from a friend's house, The Governor's speech will be given tomorrow. NELSON. Wednesday. The Captain of the Messenger reports that next morning after having left the ship on the Spit, he walked down and found her broken across the deck and main hatch and half of the keel lying on the beach a quarter of a mile distant, and a spar over the side of the vessel was imbedded ten feet in the sand. The steamer Lady Barkley arrived with the Messenger's crew, who have been at the lighthouse since Friday night. It appears the vessel missed stays and went ashore. Owing to the heavy sea the crew had to leave her. CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. At an adjourned inquest on the body of the child found in the Avon, the jury returned a verdict that the child had been stillborn. Forty-two of the unemployed were sent to the Weka Pass railway works today. A conference of the Resident Magistrates of the district has recently been held on the subject of the scale of Court fees. It is understood that they will recommend several reductions, particularly in reference to judgment summonses. At Kaiapoi to-day, Jane Mahoney, I

charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £lO, was committed for trial, For contempt of Court at Kaiapoi, W. Gingarven, who first neglected to obpy a summons as witness, and, when reprimanded, laughed at the Bench and refused to apologise, was fined £2 or 48 hours' imprisonment. OAMAKU. Tuesday. Tho telegram published a few days ago stating that two men were drowned in Ohau river is incorrect, but airs Morrison and child were drowned through tho upsetting of a trap in tho river. A man named Morrison, with his wife and child, were leaving their Ohau station for Omarama, en route for Oamaru .Mr Stronach, station manager, consented to take them across the river in a trap, and while in the river the trap capsized. Stronach and Morrison got ashore, but the -woman and child were drowned. GRAHAMSTOWN. Tuesday. Intelligence has just been received that the disaffected tribes are erecting two pahs in a strong position, THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. (PER PRESS AGENCY. Auckland, Tuesday. Her Majesty the Queen has sent Mr Buckstone, the author and actor, LSO. Lord Beaconsfield has recommended a grant of £IOO to be made him from the Royal Bounty, A novelty in tvade was the recent shipment of pig-iron from Liverpool to New York. Mr Hone, a prominent Irish amateur, has taken a team of gentlemen cricketers to America. He has written a letter proposing that the Irish meet the English in the States.

One thousand cotton operatives have struck in Glasgow. A Pritish Royal Commission, under the presidency of Lord Carnarvon, Colonial Secretary, has been appointed to report on the defences of the British colonies. The now Brazilian loan is more than twice covered by subscription, A disturbance took place at Lurgan between a Home Rule procession and the police, who charged on the mob with fixed bayonets. The mob subsequently wrecked Lord Lurgan's lodges and the house of a Protestant, The violence and determination of the mob was so great that the officers killed one and wounded two before they were brought under control.

The Times says the departure of Resident Minister Walsh from London is generally regretted, and thinks the demand made by the American Government for 103,000d015. damage to the fishermen in Fortune Bay may lead to diplomatic complications,

On the 18th, in consequence of heavy rain storms, the traffic was suspended on the railway between Chester and Holyhead, and Birkenhead was flooded. The rain was so violent at Sheffield that it washed away the boundaries of houses in course of construction, All the low-lying lands in Derbyshire, Trent, and Derwent were overflowed, The wheat is gradually rotting, and many crops left standing will not pay for cutting. In tho Yale of Chydde, in Wales, thousands of acres of crops are submerged, and hundreds of cattle and sheep are drowned, The injury done to growing crops in many of the districts is irreparable. Dr Newman Hall, the Congregational pulpit orator, has obtained a decree of divorce from his wife, on account of her adultery with one Richardson, a stablekeeper. The trial excited a great sensation,

An English steamer collided with the Spanish steamer Concord off Cape Finisterre on the I.lth of August. The Spaniard was sunk, and fourteeu of her crew drowned.

Lieutenant Carey, on his return to England on the 20th August, was met at Plj mouth by a Committee, who presented an address of welcome signed by 3000 names, which were obtained in a day or two. The address expressed entire confidence in his valor as a British officer and Ins honor as a gentleman, and sympathy with him in his present trying circumstances. The Queen has positively refused the Commander-in-chief's request that Lieutenant Carey be dismissed the service. He was released from arrest on the 2lst August. Unarmed volunteers are to be enrolled in Ireland.

England is the only power not invited to witness the great Russian military manoeuvres that commenced on the 25th ultimo.

The severest storm for many a year raged in England on August 4th, during which hailstones fell measuring siu in circumference. The damage was great in Bedfordshire, and here the hay crops were nearly swept away, and many cattle were driiwned in Cambridge, Norfolk, Guilford, Leicester, and Bath. The Times says that the hay and other fodder crops throughout England and Wales aie many millions of pounds shoit of the average value.