LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 238, 6 May 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(.F/'o;;* the Wellington l\.jpers. Dtjnedlv, May 1. Preparations are being made for a public reception to the representative Volunteers. A ball is to be given to them on Friday next. Thirteen sacks of gram belonging to James Kemp, Weat Taieri, and a threshing machine belonging to John Gow, has been destroyed by fire. Samuel Symms has been committed for obtaining money by fal"se pretences. The b.9. Gothenburg has arrived, bringing news from Victoria to the 25th ult. The Victorian difficulty is still unsettled, but M'Culloch is expected to resume power. New alluvial ground bus been discovered at Bendigo, and is turning out well. A French transport ship has put into Hobson's Bay, bound for New Caledonia, with 600 troops on board. Great mortality prevails amoug the ■children in Victoria from diptheria. The declared decrease in the wheat crop, compared with that of last year, was one million one hundred and fifty thousand bushels. O'Farrell left a written confession, but made no speech on the scaffold. He denies that he shot the Prince by Fenian instigation, and asserts that he alone is responsible, and was impelled to the act by brooding over Ireland's wrongs. The execution passed off without any demonstration.