LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 832, 29 July 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION; j VICTORY.FOR THEMINISTRY/ j Wellington, July 28. The division on the no-confidence motion was taken last night and resulted in 41 votes for the Government and' 37 (or Ormond's amendment. .Major Atkinson briefly intimated; that Ministers, now having the confidence of the House, would conduct their business, as they thought beat. ■The Bill on which the debate arose, namely, the Crown and Dative Lands 1 Bating Bill, was ordered to be committed that day fortnight. ' ..!'•' DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. Nelson, July 28th. : An old settler named Watts died yesterday., He came.out in the expedition'ship Tory, and has for over forty years lived either at Nelson or, Marlborough. ... FIRE.

■ The Travellers Rest Inn at Riwaka has been burnt. The landlord and his family narrowly esoaped with their lives, A CASTAWAY RESCUED. Auckland, July 28. The schooner Norval while trading westward of New Caledonia picked up on one of the islands a Frenchman in a starving condition, who stated he bad been put ashore nine months previously by. the skipper of another vessel with only two months provisions, si ice then he had subsisted on birds eggs. ■ SEPARATE COUNTY. Hatvbba, July 28. A separate county has been declared for this end of the district, and the people are much elated.