LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 735, 5 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, This; day.Seed and Batkiu's report on reductions in tho North Island alone is said to recommend the lopping off of ton thousand per annum, and in. the South Island, it is likely to-equal thirty thousand. OHRISTOIURCH. The Superintendent of tho Fire Brigade proposes establishing a system of electric firo alarms, DDNEDIN. An enquiry into tho extraordinary doings in the gaol here is likely to ensue. Tho Vincent Ctfuncil has declared to endorse Pyke's proposal to raise £IO,OOO for public works. Through shunter's mistake the goods train ran into a ballast train, and rolling stock was'damaged. No-one was injured. MELBOURNE, Tho Marquis of Normanby is suffering severely from fever and offue, Munro, a member of tho Assembly, was assaulted by Sergeant, another member. The latter has been arrested. ' ..AOCKLAND. , '-n, Tho Australia arrived yesterday, with general items, . Steps have been taken by the New York Municipal Council to stop walking matches in tho city, which are denounced as frauds. LONDON. Beaconsfield is no wowe. Severe disturbances have occurred in Ologher, County Tyrone. Two rioters were killed and several wounded by shots .from the police. President Garfield's inaugural address was telegraphed verbatim to the London Press and produced an excellent impres,

sion. Journals praise, liberally the new ■ president's political good flenae and augur a prosperous administration. j The scare about American diseased J pork has reduced .the sale in England to almost nothing, A worlds fair, to be held in New Tork, in 1883, will probably be abandoned, no subsoriptions coming in, vjf Archbishop of Dublin assails The Land League in his lenten pastoral,) also the ladies who ate associated in the movement. The ladies intend to reply. ~

An American citizen, after some litiga" tion, has come in possession >of .Fernando De Nerguba Island, off the cost of Brazil. He claimed it by right of discovery. On this and Pbla's ,and Atrothos Islands are 9,000,000 tonß of valuable phosphatos- . A great .drapery establislimeL.lijJß Boulevard Haussmann, Paris,, has blfl burned down and so vera! lives loat. A

total losses'of the Insurance Oohip'ai 'amount to 7,000,0001. : .fu\ '

Whole villages in Posen, in Russia proper, and Schelswig are. represented as deserted, the residents emigrating' to America ; Cholera is raging in Chicago, and is attributed to the general use of butterine or oleomargarine.' :,;: '

On the return from England of Edward Hanlan, the champion oarsman, he was the guest of the Atlantic Boat Club in New York. On March 3 a.dinner waß giren in his honor, at which Mayor Grace and the Kev Henry' Ward Beeoher, and other distinguished persons were present,

The Hawaiian Islands are being devastated by small pox, recently imported by the brig Cassandra, from Canton. White inhabitants are flying in dismay, although the roads and paths leading out of Hono lulu are closely guarded. Mail steamers will not take anything on board except mails, remaining outside the reef to receive them. Mongolian's are arriving in large numbers and appropriating native women. The Islands are far from being in a satisfactory state.

An immense corporation has been organised in St Louis to forward grain in bulk and all kinds of produce and merchandise from St. Louis to Liverpool and other foreign ports,

The State of Delaware has passed a prohibitive liquor law.

Constable, the noted English jockey, is dead.