INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 298, 27 May 1879, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Wellington, May 25

Two hundred and • thirty-seven nominations, equal to 218 statute adults" have been sent Home by the outgoing mail. Of these 26 nominations, equal to statute adults, are from Fielding. About 30 nominations were rejected on account of the limit of the age being exceeded, aid for other reasons. The valuation lists under the Land Tax Act will be deposited for public inspection throughout the colony on and after May 28. . 'A man was severely gored in Upper Willis -street oil (Friday night by a buljwere A sharp, shqckof earthquake was felt, here at 12.15"p.m. to-day. .... | Goyermnent has received, "intimatiohj that the Hon. Edward William/Stafford; and the Hon. William Fox have been made Knight Commanders of St Michael and St George.

- A certain chemist in Wellington says the PM, ' has frequently been . annoyed by 4 solne urchins, who 4 persist in "quacking," after the manner of a duck, whenever they pass his ?hop. . This morning he heard the familiar sound, and as it was continued for sometime, lie determined to put an end to the annoyance for ever by inflicting severe .corporal punishment on the offending .youngster. Accordingly he rushed out, btit his I'hngrin was great when he found tliat the noise on tin's occasion was pro duced by a real duck, which was held by 'the legs by a butcher's assistant, who was talking to a friend at the shop door. On Jmairing this discovery the chemist returned •toiiis shop, and began to study a work on "Deadly Poisons."