LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 808, 2 May 1871, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(per greville's telegram company, reuter's agents). Tatjranga, May 1. The Hau Hau tribea continue their threats with respect to the proposed extensiou of the telegraph line. The Government is determined to proceed with the line from Tauranga to Kati Kati. Floyd with his staff is engaged laying out the line, and all the materials have arrived. Grace is the name of the clergyman who has prompted the natives to extortion, thereby injuring the carrying out of public works. Blenheim, May 1. The- barque Malay is on firejat Port Underwood. The flames were discovered at four yesterday afternoon. The fire is believed to have been extinguished, but no particulars are known. Dunedin, May 1. It is proposed to give a banquet to the officers of the Nevada, to celebrate the inauguration of the service. A horrible tragedy took place at Caversbam this morning. A woman named M'Phee cut her child's throat with a butcher's knife, almost severing the head from the body. She then attempted suicide, inflicting wounds from the effects of which she is not expected to recover. It appears that a partner of the woman's husband, named Kane, had ravished her, and this, it is supposed, so preyed upon her mind as to have led to the committal of the terrible act. A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of Kane.