LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 854, 24 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington August 24.

STONEWALLING THE REPRESEN-

TATION BILL. ' The 'Nelson members last night, with several others, stonewalled the Representative Bill on clause two, defining the number of members as ninety-one, audi the whole sitting was lost in profitless

■debate. THE EDUCATION AMENDMENT ACT LOST. The Education! amendment. Act has been rejected, It provided that pupils should read the bible in schools daily for twenty minutes, but that the teacher need not be present, and it omitted placing, any one else in temporary authority, FOUND DEAD Dunedin, August 24, An old settlor named Oainpboll was found dead in Ross's Buildings, He is supposed to have been robbed and illtreated. A GRAVE OMISSION. The ciiyy solicitor has given it as his opinion that there is no power under the Public Health Act to seize spurious tea.

GOLD DISCOVERY. Wanganui. ■ It is reported that gold in payable quantities has been discovered at Opatu block, near Tahua. The. natives will not sell the land, though surveyed.

NEW CATHEDRAL, CpiSTCiiCRCH, August 24, Thp cathedral will be opened in Ooto her and (ha peal of bolls now being erected will on tho occasion be put in telephone connection with Dunedin and Auckland. WHOLESALE ROBBERY. 1 HUSBAND EXPOSED BY HIS nT " ■ wi|e, • Nawek, Au«. 23. A Post Office clerk namod Rendell has been arrested on a charge of wholesale robbery, not only of money from letters, but goods from stop fjis wife informed the police, saying that though he was unsuspected sho could no longer rest under the knowledge.