TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1037, 1 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ... A Dangerous Voyage. . Auckland, To-day. Arrived Clansman, 23 days from Lyttelton. She experienced a T succession of gales, and had the decks swept by.epormous seas. She arrived in a battered condition. The Babbit Pest. -.r.U: -a .Napier, To-day. At the meeting of the Waste Lands Board yesterday, on the motion of Captain Bussell, the following resolution was carried —That the increase of rrabjtnte in the vicinity of the Tautane block, now being surveyed and opened oat by roftds for settlement, will materially diminish the price the land will sell for when put up to auction, and possibly prevent any bidding for it, unless the rabbit leuoe is erected on the southern boundary ,of the Crown lands in the Hawke’s Bay district. The Waste Lands Board therefore *eoommends the Government to grant-pownd for pound in aid of the erection of a rabbit fence to be erected on the most .amtable line in the vicinity of the boundary, and failing the erection of the fence the Board is of opinion that any further expenditure in surveys and roads, will be useless, and should therefore be diacontinned. ; i Monthly Beturna. Tho vital statistics are :—Births, 51 » marriages, 6 ; deaths, 14. The Customs returns are L 2,853, beer L 206« Suicide. A man named George Ness, a fellmonger at Keiikorai, was missing on Thursday evening. His employers and others went in search of him on the hill, as he had appeared to be in a desponding at at a of mind lately, his usual regular remittance not having arrived last mail from Aberdeenshire, .where his relations occupy a wealthy position, Yesterday .afternoon they discovered the man’s bodyin a Hole in the Kaikorai creek, with an old irgn pump tied on his back.