LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. London, January 20. AUCKLAND. GRAHAMSTOWN. TIMARU. WELLINGTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1181, 22 January 1880, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. London, January 20.

AUCKLAND.

GRAHAMSTOWN.

TIMARU.

WELLINGTON.

Julesfevre, formerly President of the French Republic, and a famous author, is dying. The Indian revenue exceeds the estimate by £3,500,000, which will relieve the Indian Exchequer from pressure of expense of Affghan war. The Prussian Finance Minister announced that it is very essential that Government should support Germany at Samoa, and should recognise the energy with which peace was restored, and that Malietoa should be recognised as King of all Samoa.

Sereral thoroughbred horses, bought in Melbourne by John Macpherson of Matamata, will arrive by the Hero. At the Supreme Court Judge Gillies granted the discharge of A Hen Soppett. He refused one bankrupt's discharge, saying, that in future he would not grant any discharge where there were no assets. Judgment was given for defendants in Brigham v. Chalmers and others over Brissenden's Eangiriri Estate.

Mr Hesketh, solicitor, accompanied by Mr Whitaker, jun., proceed to Omaha, Upper Thames, to investigate the title and area of the Buakaka block, which is claimed by Ftepenson, Burtt, and Herata. The extent of the block is stated on the certificate of title to be 415 acrep, not 900 acres as stated by the Herald.

The Mormons are holding meetings every Sunday in private houses at Sandie Town, outside Timaru. Converts are selling off right and left. The exodus to XTtah takes place in April. Last evening six converts, including married women, were conducted by a coal dealer, who has joined the Mormons, to Saltwater Creek, and there stripped to their nightdresses and baptised.

It is intended to ask subscriptions from all volunteer corps in New Zealand in aid of the widow of Francis Donald, who was accidentally shot dead at the rifle range on Saturday la&t.