LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 737, 7 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

WELLINGTON. This day,

Shaw, R.M., fined the keepers of the so-called Thorndon and To Aro clubs £2O each for selling beer without licenses. News has been received that the detention of the mail steamer City of New York was owing to the crank pin in the shaft giving way, A supplementary Gazette notifies the extension of the Act for keeping the Maori prisoners in gaol for three months longer., • .

The arrival of Bishop Redwood yesterday was made tho occasion of giving him a most flattering reception. Addresses most beautifully illuminated were presented to him from the clergy.congregations, schools, and Hibernian Societies; also the more substantial testimonial of a purse of sovereigns. Downes, the lawyer's clerk charged with theft of stamps, has been committed for trial. DUNEDIN. Lance explains to the Jockey Club that he scratched Natator to avoid risking the horse's chance at Wanganui. The explanation is generally deemed unsatisfactory. At Balclutha a man named Russell has beon killed through an accident at tho bridge works. AUCKLAND, Much exeitement prevails over the receipt of a prospectus of the " Haven Goldmining Company," floated in London to work property which is glowingly described as situated here, but which is unavailable. The entire scheme is a gigantic sham, and it is proposed that the Chamber of Commerce cable home, ex. posing the imposition, CHRISTOHUROE V Pringle Gibson accused of shooting William Kerrison, has been acquitted on the ground of insanity, but will be kept in confinement until the will of the Government is known. : ' . 'BLENHEIM. Redwoods' stud was sold yesterday, and the following prices realised in guineas ;- Anteros, stallion, 325; Frailty, 160 J

Wainui,' filly, 164; Puriki, mare, 160 j Korari, colt, 105, Others did not fetch' the reserve and were passed in. LONDON. The conflicts on the Tunisian frontier over the disputed rights of Joseph Levy, an English subject there, has led to a diplomatic difficulty between; France' and, England, arid bellicose rumors prevail. ,-....,.- !

The Greek regiments are mobilising for' service against Turkey.

Be'aconsfield is progressing favorably towards convalescence.