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INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(fjrom the lyttelton times.)

Wellington, April 23.

.There were some symptoms of AntiChinese riot oh the "wharf, this'afternoon, By the s.s. Omeb, from "Newcastle, which arrived in port this afternoon,. 125 Chinese were passengers for Port ChalmersA crowd assembled round the vess<tLon her arrival,'."and,''after-, gazing at the Celestials some time in apparent disgust; commenced ta,reliey.e their feelings by throwing pieces- of -whiting and,-other missiles : : at; ; thenu; jThe ; Chinese Jook refuge under the forecastley some of them retaliated by shying lumps 'of Coal at the crowd. The police dispersed the mob. , .. * ~.,., ' ~-7; _-.-...- '~ - . . ~.- T : A poll was taken; to-day under the Municipal Corporations ' Acty oh the proposal to raise a loan of £100,000 for street improvements. The loan was affirmed'by the large majority of 951 to 579. ' ■ ;, '- : ; - :, ' ; ■■■'■■■'• (From the Press.) ,'.".' 'J- /".Auckland,'April 23. The Star has just issued the following extra :—" The pirates trapped redhanded! The bogus telegram! Who promoted j Gi. M. Reedi? '. Thou shalt not steal.' Finding it impossible to shame the Herald from stealing our J costly, cable messages we forwarded by the Zeajandia to, Sydney to our Australian partners in procuring these messages the'following bogus despatch, concocted in the Star office: —' It is understood that Sir Julius Vogel shortly retires from the Agent-Generalship to join a commercial firm,;, and'thiat Mr G. M. Reed, recently arrived from the colony as the Immigration Agent for Ireland will admiiiister.the .affairs of the, London office until a .permanent; appointment is made by New Zealand The telegram 1 ' was published in Australia, with other special messages as, aL trap/ and was, of course; pirated by the agents of the 'Herald. ■ It morning in our contemporary ./.under \, large headings as " From our own Correspondent," and in a leading article , thereon the Herald says—"But this time the statement comes to us in such a.way that we must; give It credit.'/ It is needless to say that the statement is without more substantial foundation th an the ingenuity. of its author, and -we can picture the astonishment of the Agent-General and Mr G. M. Reed .when they hear it; Now, what of the repeated/deriials by the Herald ? A full expose in to-night's Star."

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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 289, 25 April 1879, Page 2

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INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 289, 25 April 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 289, 25 April 1879, Page 2

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