TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 9 May 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [fbom oub own coeeespondent.] Wellington,; May 7. Parliament -frill be summoned for the despatch of business on the 9>b June. Poet Chalmebs, May 7. The report that a disturbance had taken place on the barque Fray Beutos, and one person drowned proves incorrect. • Invebcabgill, May 7. ••The ... total population;, of the town is 4597 ; the suburbs approximate 3214, The population of Riverton is 1191, in* eluding 113 Chinamen. Taubanga, May 4. Baifield's trial for the attempted robbery ol the National Bank has been proceeding all day. He says he was driven to commit the crime through poverty, and as far as is yet known had no accomplices. Dunedin, May 7. I\to ch'ldren Lav-: died of blood*

poisoning from glanders communicated by a horse ; but the police hare failed to discover any horse so diseased in the locality. Napieb, May 1. Tbe Union Company's launch Booju.n, in going out with outward passengers for the Ringarooma, came into collision with and sank the steam launch Sir Donald which was coming in with inward cargo from the Ringarooma. The Boojum is not. injured. . Auckland, May 6. W. Day, City Council Clerk, has been appointed a Mormon elder, and has ress igned his appointment and goes to Utah. There is no fresh news from the wreck of the Tararua. The Union Company have received a Cablegram from London asking if George Moore'Frean was a passenger by the Tararua, but there is no trace of his haying booked.