TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1055, 21 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PER FRESH ASSOCIATION.] The Weather. Wellington, To-day. A hard southerly gale is blowing, ascompanied by heavy rain. Wesleyan Conference. At the Wesleyan Conference'letters of sympathy were sent to the Revs Q-. Standard, Wills, and Aldred.who were' unable to attend the Conference through extreme age. Arrangements were made - to receive a temperance deputation on Wednesday. Mr Joughin .was accepted as a student candidate for the ministry. Fire. Christchurch,. To-day. ’ The premises of A. R. Qomeraham, woolsconrer, at Baloairn, together with a quantity of wool and skins, were de- r stroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The : insurances were :—New Zealand office, L4OO ; South British, Ll5O. A New Trial, Dunedin, To-day. The second trial of Wm, Pearce for. murder was commenced to-day. The . Crown Prosecutor ordered two jurymen to stand aside, and the prisoner’s counsel challenged twelve jurymen. The Comet. Mr Beverly writes to the Star as fol-. lows:—The comet was distinctly visible: last night at 9.30 till 10 o’clock. It aet.at 10.15. At 9.60 it was due west near the horizon, but will continue ascending about two degress each succeeding night' at the same hour. It is as bright as a ; third magnitude star, with a faint tiil about two degreeslong as seen witban opera glass. To the uaked eye the tail iabarely perceptible owing to the unusually pro* £ tracted twilight. It will be in perihMion on the 26th and brightest. at _the end of ■ ■ February. .. v. jV ; The Murder Case. * ■' The defence in Pearce’s ca e to-day will be an entirely new. one,, viz.: 'fhet; the deceased accidentally inflicted, the ' wound on herself with an open .knife being carried by Pearce, and that she ~ ' not know of it, hence her not mentioning