LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 708, 4 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

FROM OUR OWN COR'RESPONDENIJ

WELLIN GTO N. ' This day. E, W, Mills, of Wellington, has called ameeting of his creditors. His liabilities run into very largo.figures, Burrelt's printing and stationery business in now in tho hands of Trustees, and is likely soon to ; be brought to auction, The Kaitoke railway refreshment room Js not lobe removed at present. Crawford reports the existence • of quarlzreefsintheOtakidistrictapparently aui'ifornus.

The Lunatic Asylum enquiry was resumed yesterday. Edwards made a long preliminary speoch as counsel in Whitelaw's defence, aud one witness named Ferrol, late warder, was examined, Ho denied cruelty in the treatment of patients. The enquiry is likely to continue a long, while. ■Nothing hat been elicited concerning the infant skeleton found in the Botanical Gardens. CHRISTOHURCE • Sir Cracroft Wilson-died yesterday, aged seventy-three. A man named Beaufield fired two shots from his revolver at another namod •Spring, in the open day light opposite the bank of New Zealand, cause not explained, Spring dodged the shots. PATEA. Skelley's draper's shop burnt, supposed, cause was the bursting of a kerosene lamp, The property is tolerably, well insured. ' AUCKLAND. Procoffy, the Russian charged with the murder of the Maori at' the Thames/ was' committed for trial. The circumstantial evidence is strong against him, LONDON. Generals Sir Donald Stewart and Sir Frederick Roberts will be made Baronets. The House of Lords read- the Irish Coercion Bill a second time, The Irish Arms Bill will be made urgent,as alao the supply, to avert obstruction in passingthese measures through the House. \ .' inVeroargill. \ The News says, on the authority of its Wellington correspondent, that a new loan oi three millions is to be raised, and that probably the colonial railways will be handed over to the Brdgdens, as proposed by that.; firm some years ago. correspondent is ' evidently endowed with strong' imaginative faculties, , as; it - i» ; \well known thai- trie present. Ministry «e opposed' to loan

till tho present finances of the colony are placed on a more satisfactory footing. ■ London news from the Cape says that, the proposals for peace with the Basutos remain answered, and the armistice is ended;- but heavy rains, prevent 'the present movement of troops. ■New; Zealand securities still hold a favorable position •in the Home market. Fiveper cent 1880 loan quoted at 100.

The Irish Coercion Bill was read a third time and' pasßed by the Lords."