LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1035, 13 January 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.) Wellington, Jannary 12. BaUfince, defend candidate for Wanganui, Juts placed in the hands of the Returning Officer, a petition against the return of j. H. Watt on the grofcad' i; of 4>ribei i y andi. intimidation during the late election through one of his agents. Hirst has also petitioned against the return of Daniel for Wallace. ■ ■"'■■■■■■ AtfGKiAND, January 11, At the criminal sessions, Plummer was sentenced to seven years, for sending threatening letter, and 3 years additional for housebreaking. William Ripley, of Orambridge was fined £50 for libel on Victor Gran ville, to be imprisoned till paid. Messrs Openheimer and Co., Auckland, have received letter by mail from ibe Ifis&nch Minister of Post and Telegraph^ 'stating that he would examine and give favourable consideration to proposals for extending service of the messagies maritimes to New Zealand. January 12, The charge of manslaughter against a Cambridge native broke down at the Supreme Court to-day owing to a flaw in the indictment The accused was re-arrested, and will be proceeded against in the Auckland Magistrate's Court. Small-pox patients by Zealandia are Auckland passengers named R. T. XJwwlord ajofl|Geq|rge Stainger. Crawfora mia %*&n vaccinated, and so had Stainger. The latter is so well that it is doubful whether he has got smallpox at all. Dr. Sandis was sent down and was isolated on the island with the patients. The Australia's stoaway, John Anderson, sent to the quarantine station, has been appointed to attend on them. He and Barnsley, quarantine keeper, being vaccinated by the Health Officer. Dunedin, January 12. The English players commenced a thre# days' "match against Eighteen of Dunedin to-day. There was a strong northerly wind blowing. Dunedin went in first, and Peates and Midwinter opened the bowling. The English fielding was particularly good ; at 1 "30 two wickets were down for 30 runs, Vernon being bowled for 13, and Crawshaw smartly taken at the wickets for 9. Christchurch, January 12. Mr R. Campbell, Buscot Park, Enrland, has, presented a cup of the value of 100 guineas each year for five years, to be added to the great autumn handicap of 300 soys., to be run for alternately in Christchurch and Dun edin. Auckland, January 12. The following particulars of the fire in the theatre at Viennn wprft brought by the mail : — | On :::-Tivt!l of the fire Urlg.\ck' upcr: j

the sdene it was fot^l impossible to ' penetrate, beyond the first tier of the theAtoe, Itejush of suffocating «« and toqgPefpuid the firemen retired -||jttcUtf th& impressiort $gj£> be-* cause nw#wKbutar were not answered there were no niore people in the .theatre. _ Those .whg^^scanej .on the first alarm weae made to penetrate a part of the theatre which was not actually blazing. In the narrow passage betweeirthe second and third gal leries a mass of corpses was discovered some so closely interlocked that it was hardly possible to partthem. The first man discovered was got out alive, but all the rest were dead. These Were persons who had lost their way in consequence ef the gas being turned off by some irresponsible person to avoid an explosion. Some of the dead were found grasping each others throats, while others seeing escape hopeless, committed suicide. Survivbrs state that women were seen to throw their children. from the galleries into the pit About ten o'clock the gasometer exploded, and the roof fell in.