TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 958, 1 June 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

. [FSB PRESS ASSOCIATION'.} The Governor. . Napier, To-day,. ’* The Governor baying expressed a wish to, meet; the Harbor Board to inspect the planaofthq harbor, a . meeting was ar- : ranged to-day, and His .'Excellency’s de- ' '-.'pasture waspostponedlill3 p;m. ‘: • ;;; . : ,The Customs- ■ Thecustoms’ revenue for t' e last month ’’VStas 12,665.*; The beer duty was L 175. The’Telephone'.' . .-nmi. ,r _■ o.j- . WBtUNQTOW, To-dajt. ; : ; Tt has been decided by the Wellington ’subscribers rotho telephone exchange to hold a meeting, at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday for the purpose of ap<.'V/ pointing a deputation to wait on the Government with th ! e view tp ! having a reduction made ip the subscriptions to the telephones. . ; , Accident to Titokowaru. .: i; « j oph e ‘ Government received the following from Major Atkinson, who was at Stratford A man panted Tocker had reported ! tfo 'him that Titokowaru had broken some of his ribs, and that he (Tocker) had done what he could by bandages, but that surgical hid J was . required. .It has been arranged thatthi#; shall, be provided. L .-j ; f(t ., r .r. Police Court Cases. • ■ , , Dunedin, To-day. ” At the City Court to-day, Vickers was Committed for , trial . for escaping from . gaol. Dennis Anglin.an’old offender, was. committed for 1 burglary, , , Suspicions Fire. ■'A.', six-roomed house at Kaikorai was • btirned down this morning. The place is . valued at L3OO, and has been unpccupi ed for over a month. It was insured 'for : L2OO-in the Standard, and Ll6O in the SPbttish . Imferial. There ate suspicious circumstances attachinsrlo the fire. Ah Old Offender. Aman named Hughes, who served a ' sentence, in' Dunedin for I 'burglariously’ entering a jeweller’s shop in Christchurch, has been arrested'here on a'charge, of pawning a diamond,. knowing it to be Afolhni and'was Comrinitled for trial. ;It is supposed that the ting was among the stolen -years* back abd planted in the sandhills at Dunedin.> Mr John Dewe will give a horse taming entertainment at Ashburton to-morrow evening. The vital Statistics of Ashburton for fhe month of May, are as follows : Births, 33 ; marriages, £; deaths, 10. r - As will be seen from an advertisement in another column,. Messrs Rainer’s pah or an a of the American War will be in , Ashburton next week, the openipg night S. Ibeing fixed for. Monday, In addition to r; „tbe pictures and mechanical effects, there > Vwillbe that popular concomitant of such -entertainments,, a distribution of gifts. : The panorama has just completed a suc- * oessful season in Christchurch, and wherever it has been shown it has drawn v* crowded houses. ■: