LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 740, 11 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

FROJI OUR own correspondent] WELLINGTON. This day. The Hon Colonial Treasurer returned on Saturday. Pour Maori prisoners from. Lyttelton gaol arrived on Saturday, having been reeased owing to their extreme ill health.

By tho steamer Wakatipu last night arrived the Duke of Manchester, Hon Marsham, Lady Ann and Lady Mary Mursham.

NELSON. The Wallsond Coal Company's property has been sold by auction to J. Harloy for L 550, It is a groat bargain.

HAWERA. The natives at Parihaka are suffering from a contagious disease which carries off many daily.

AUCKLAND.

Tho Thames Advertiser says that the founder of the Haven Goldinining Company in the English market is Eicke, formerly a mining speculator at the Thames, He obtained a mining lease

from tho native owners, which, though

valueless, has served as a bait to home

investors. He was formerly an auc tioneerat Hokitika, LONDON.

The Oxford and Cambridge boat race

was won easily by the former. The Ambassadors have sent9a note to the Greek Government peremptorily dealing the Turko-Greek frontier as the provincb of Thessaly, a strip of country south of Epirus, including the town of Prevesa, which fortress must, however, bo dismantled.

Lord Collingwood succeeds the Duke ol Argylo as Lord Privy Seal, who resigned

the position consequent on a disagreement with his colleagues on the provisions of the Irish Land Bill. ■ Ten thousand French soldiers have been sent to Algiers, in view of the difficulty at Tunis.