TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2273, 6 November 1889, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

(FEU PAKBS AS800IATI0R.)

Death of a Footballer.

AuoKLAjfD, November 0 It transpires that Alexander Webster, who died on the brlgantine Oamara, from loobjftw, brought on byinjarles at Long Islaud, waa m member of the Native Cootball Team lot which he played forward. He was wollkn>wn m football olrolea here, having been a member of the North Shire Football Olub. He was a native df H«jk!»nga 1 Ser.'ous Accident. New Plymouth, November 6. A man named John Gollor, v settler near laglowood, when trying to catch a young horse yesterday m a busb oleartng get entangled In tbe rope which was round tho aulmal'd neck and was dragged a considerable distance. Bafcra being released be h»d a leg and two ribs broken and got his skull fraotarod. GollerUin a preosrious condition Petroleum. Mi Samuel, M UK., eends by tho steamer Taioul to Sir J, Vcgel a qunntlty of orude petrokum gathered near the breakwater. Arrival of the Kaikonra . Wklxjuoton, Nuvembai 6. The R.M.B. Kaikoura .arrived »t 0.15 this morning, via Plymouth, Tenenffe, C|ap3town, and tiobart. She left Plymouth on the 22nd Septambar, and hid tgi uneventful voyage. The Land Act. Owing to tteqaei;; statements made as tdholdora of land tranoferring their ototiona the Minister of Lands has had proparod a statement ohowlnp the aotual traoefers from 81«t March, 1888, to 30 oh September, 1889. These are aa follows :— Oash suleo, area allotted 96,231 acres, transferred 10 670 aores ; deferred payments, 88,816 acroa allotted, 3445 aores transferred ; perpotu*i losse, 361,763 allotted, 24,863 axes transferrnd ; totals, 641,810 acres al.'otted, 24,863 aores transf«rrad.