LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 853, 23 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT,) BILL, T)|B aepond reading of the Railway Construction Bill mi carried last night by 81 voles to five, The Bill as committed for this day is admittedly defective in many clauses, and it will require much revision in Committee. An important seizure has been made in Frederick-st., of smuggled tobacco, seven boxes were discovered hidden under a hoipqf a.pahipi named Fred Lee, The boxes were part of nine recently run from a Sydney [vessel. One other was found at the Newton Hotel, and another suspected of haying been sold to the landlord of the Forester? Armi

PINERY PUNISHED. APiUND, August 23. Whiteside charged with, attempting to bribe Hefierman, of the Land Office with 1200 if ho got land at Kororaka, was 'fined £350. Nelson, August 23. Tljfl house of Gibbs, member for Colli.ngwood, was jtqtally destroyed'by fire owing to the bursting of a kerosene lamp Nothing was saved, K was a new building The insurance on the house and contents was only £3OO. THE ROOLIN TRAMWAY. DUNEpw, August 23. The Roslyn Tramway Company has been served with various writs on behalf of sufferers by the recent accident, MORE DAMAGES. The Government will be damages resulting from the death of Henry Mayo, through the accident at the Kensiugfon railway Pfflsptng, where the train ran into a cab full of passenger?.