TELEGRAMS. NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2258, 24 May 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. NEW ZEALAND.

TO-DAY'S

[SBa PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, May 24, Holiday. To.day is a close holiday. The chief events are the races at Papakuro. AstronomicalThe passengers by the Botomahana last night report they saw in the south-west direction, about lOdeg. above the horizon, a little before eight o'clock, a star, whioh they took to be a comet's tail, faintly luminous, ' head downward to horizon. TestimonialOeorge Ooates, ono of the oldest commercial • travellers in the New Zealand trade, was entertained by his fellow-travellers at dinner at the Star Hotel lost night, prior to his departure for England. He was presented with an address bearing forty-two signatures, representatives of Australian and New Zealand Arms. The Mormon MovementSeveral Mormons leave by the out-going mail steamer. Fiji Hews. The Southern Cross has arrived from Fiji. The Governor has gone to Botumah to complete the annexation of that island. His lady has given birth to triplets. Death hy Drowning. F. Strange, and his son Frederiok, owners of a small vessel, are drowned. The copra in the hold caught fire, and they beached the vessel on a reef at the Island of Bakoua, but in attempting to land the dingy capsized. DUNEDIN, May 24. The Races. The weather is glorious, and there is a large attendance at the races. Fatal Accident-

The death of Edward Tewsley, third son of the late Henry Tewsley, ooourred yeaterday. The deceased waa a fine promising lad of 16 years, and woa in the employ of Bargood, Son, and E wen. About half past five o'clock last evening groans were heard coming from the bottom of the lift (a part of the cellar), and upon some one going to the place it was discovered that the young fellow had fallen from one of the upper floors. He oould not hare been lying long there before he was found, and when picked up he was insensible. Dr. Borrows waa immediately called in, and the lad was removed to his home, where he died at seven o'clock. He remained unconscious to the last. His injury, so far as is ascertained, consisted of extensive fracturo of the skull. How he came to fall down the lift is not known, and had it not been for his groaning he would have remained unnoticed when the place was closed. The lord's Jlay. The Boslyn Tramway Company, by 1728 votes to 1038, have refused to allow the cars to be run on Sundays.