TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 960, 4 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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Drowned. Auckland, To-day.

Information has been received of the drowning on Thursday last, of Captain James, of the cutter Wave, on the voyage from Mercury Bay to Suva. He was washed overboard. The deceased was formerly a pilot here, and leaves a Wife and six children. The Customs.

Wellington, To-day. The Customs duties collected throughout the colony for last month amounted to 1i118,639 ss, the beer duty for the same period being L 4,470 15s 9d. For the corresponding month’ in 1832 the Customs revenue was L 126,696 16s 6d, and the beer duty L4,98118s B>L The decrease in’ last month as against that collected in. May, 1882, was owing to the receipts for the latter period being exceptionally large. The amounts collected at the principal centres last month were : Auckland, L29.19110s sd; Wellington, L 16.968 2a 4d; Lyttelton and Christchurch; L 16,068 7a lOd ; Dunedin, L 51,464 13s 3d. An Arrest. Much excitement was caused at Carterton yesterday through the arrest of Eli Thomas and Joseph Stra abridge, farmers, at Waitaheki, on suspicion of’ being connected with the lecent robberies of drapery and boots, some of which are identified. They appear this afternoon. .. Fatal Accident. Tucaeu, To-daiy., William Dawson, a carrier, was thrown out of his cart on Saturday, and the wheel passed over his neck, breaking ih At the inquest to-day a verdict of r ‘ Accidental death ” was returned. Gold Mine Returns. Dunedin, To-day.

The Premier company, at Arrow, cant down a cake of 184 ounces of ,gold-< from. 11l tons. The Tipperary Company have washed up 162 ounces of retorted gold. Wholesale Adulteration. Professor Black reports on the sample of spirits and beer supplied to him from the city hotels by the police for analysis, that all the samples of whiskey 1 and brandy, with one exception, have been reduced after distillation, some to a very large extent. All the brandies were adulterated with sugar and colored by vegetable coloring matter. Indeed, the brandies were not properly brandies at all, being chiefly cheap whiskeys sugared and astringent by the addition of tannin and other foreign vegetable, substances. Joined the Majority.

Mr George Wilson, a saloon passenger by the Indian Empire, died of consumption shortly after the Indian Empire’s arrival. He was in delicate health On leaving England.

The following are the Hospital rejtufns for May :—No. of patients in Hospital on Ist of the month, 9; admitted during the .

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