LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1182, 5 June 1874, Page 4

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(from oub own cobbespondent.) GBEYMOUTH. June 3. A fire occurred at Paroa early this morning in premises occupied by O'Connor as hotelkeeper, which, with office of the Paroa Road Board and a private dwelling, were totally destroyed. Two other buildings were pulled down. A girl named Elizabeth Houghton, twelve yearß of age, was burned to death. Cause of fire at present unknown. Estimated loss of property £IOOO. No insurance. [Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency] EEEFTON. June 2. The "Wealth of Nations' crushing yielded 460 ounces of melted gold. A dividend of 20s has been declared. DUNEDIN. June 2. The Provincial balance sheet shows the estimated receipts to be £482,753 ; actual, 492,309 ; and the expenditure, £404,066 ; for the financial year ending Mach 31. LTTTELTON. June 2. The ship Ballochmyle has arrived from London, 97 days out, with 383 immigrants. CHRISTCHURCH. June 3. In the Provincial Council a motion ■was put that the Museum shall be opened for at least three hours every Sunday afternoon, and carried by 26 totes against 7. WELLINGTON. June 2. In the Court of Appeal, the At-torney-General v. Bunney, the demurrer was overruled on all points with costs. The Provincial Government is therefore defeated. The Government have advices of the Bale in London of £672,000 of four-and-a-half per cent debentures, nominally at £9B, but with allowances for interest which reduces the price to £96 9s sd. That is part of the one and a-half million which has been offered for sale: The balance is to be Bold at the same price. AUCKLAND June 2. A heavy gale yesterday swamped a number of small craft and injured others. No serious calamity.

The news per Star of the South from Levuka contains particulars of the murder of-Ross Lewin,a planter. The native Bhot him in revenge for shooting a pig. He requested his body might he buried at sea lest the natives should dig it up. His wife •went out in a boat to comply with his last request, and was driven away by a gale. After great privations she was> picked up by the schooner Donald M'Lean. Bloodshed had occurred on board that vessel previously. The mate had been killed by the natives with an axe, and three sailors had been wounded. Heyd, of the firm of Henderson and M'Earlane, is a candidate to represent Waimate. June 3. The Government propose to withdraw the rating clauses in the Education Bill, and substitute a uniform household tax of £l, with 10& bachelor tax, and a capitation tax of 10s per child attending school up to four in one family. GRAHAMSTOWN. June 2. There was a fearful north-west gale on Sunday night, doing extreme damage. Three coasting vessels made breaches through wharf known as Curtis wharf. Seawall, Grahamstown to Tararu, is considerably damaged. On the railway a quantity of ballast was washed away. Tararu wharf is nearly destroyed, and the beach is strewn with timber. One cutter now lies high and dry in the main street at Grahamstown. It is scarcely possible at present to estimate the damage. *