TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1329, 28 November 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(fkom our own correspondent. ) Auckland, 26. A private' cable message received > here from Melbourne states that the Victorian Full Court of Appeal has ! decided against the appeal of Smith, late Bank clerk at Auckland, who was ' arrested in Melbourne on a charge of 4 embezzlement. The point raised by , [us counsel under the Fugitive Of- 1

fenders Act was that he was not a fugitive within the meaning of the Act. I^elson, 26. Two foreign seamen, belonging to the barque May Queen, which was lying at ancliorage here, left their 1 ? vessel during last night on a raft coifci sfcrtfcted of two spars, each 10ft. longswiih a small hatchway lashed across them. The men also took with them a life-buoy. This morning the life-buoy was picked up under the cliff, and the raft was found on the Boulder Bank, but neither of the men, whose names were Martin Olsen and Johana Butman, have been seen or heard of. It is, however, thought they, reached land. The Hon. Mr Dick has been visiting the public institutions to-day. Chmstcbtorch, 26. The body of William Thomas, a seaman of the Firth of Dornoch, which sailed recently for London, was foundfloating in Lyttelton Harbor this morning. Deceased had been reported as a deserter, and it is supposed that whilst attempting to board the ship he fell," and fractured his skull against the side. . Daniel May Owell, of Papanui, bonemanure manufacturer, has been committed for trial on a charge of false pretences. Accused had obtained £15 from the New Zealand, Loan and Mercantile Company as an advance on tive casks, alleged to be of tallow, but which proved to be a yellow liquid with a foul smell, utterly useless, and unsaleable, and evidently extracted from bones. Dunbdin, 26. Mr 0. Y. O'Connor, C.E., was entertained at a dinner by a number of officers in the Public Works and Railway Departments on Saturday night. Mr Blair and Mr Barnay presided, During the evening VI r O'Connor was presented- with a small piece of silver plate. It is established beyond doubt that the rabbits in the Lake County, where they have got very thick, have got tuberculosis. It attacks the lungs and liver, and is highly infectious, and means certain death. Numbers of these have been found. Dunedin, 26. The High School boys, Lane and Lovegrove, who spent Saturday night on rocks off the Ocean Beach to-day appear quite recovered from their nights outing in a state of nudity. To affiiml themselves as much shelter as possible they stripped away a lot of guano from the front of the crevilses, whente-they spent the night, and piled it up with ice plants which grows on the top, and for some time they kept themselves warm and amused themselves by throwing stones at the birds. Instructions have heen issued by the Public Works Department to stop work on the Hindon section of the Otago Central Railway, and 120 men have been discharged. Two Political Associations for the. promotion of financial reform, and to watch the interests of the South upon the basis recommended by the Hon. Mr Eeynolds in a recent letter to the Daily Times, are in course of formation in this city. Wellington, 27*.,^; His Excellency the Governor has HK formed Ministers that he has gone fully into several matters relating to the case, and regrets that he can arrive at no other conclusion than that Longhurst is guilty of the crime of which he was convicted i« April, 1880, and that his release would be a grievous miscarriage of justice, and a serious injuiy to the public at large.