LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1180, 20 October 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(BKK UNITED FMES3 ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, This Day. THE Hon. the Premier aud the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer left yesterday afternoon In the .Stella. The former goes to Manukau and the latter Taranaki. Both gentlemen are expected to return here about the end of the month. Mr Bryce will join the Stella at New Plymouth. Mr Dick leaves here on a tour of inspection through the South Island ou Monday, the 23rd instant. The Wellington Naval Brigade have entered for the Rifle Association meeting, Captain William Ballew, the owner aud captain of the well-known trading schooner Saucy Lasa, died rather suddenly last night, it is supposed from heart disease. GREYMOUTH, This day. The dispute between the Coal Pit Heath Company aud the coal heavers employed iu the mine, has been settled by compromise. The men proposed that an interval of only half an hour, instead of the full Lour, should be taken during the eight hours' shift, thus making it eight hours aud a half. The Company have accepted the com promise aud'the meu have returned to work. INVERCARGILL, This Day. News has been received from Stewart Island that a man named Marks, belonging to the cutter Dauntless, was drowned by slipping off the oar while sculling the dingy. A man named Thomas Maizes, au old resident, was killed last night by the running away of his horse on the East Road. The horse had a bad character for bolting. Mr Maizes’s neck was broken either by the fall or by coming into contact with the wheel of the vehicle. WANGANUI, This Day. The railway engine caught a trap containing a man named Conroy, and a boy named Wright, whilst going over the level crossing. Both the boy and man were seriously injured, and there are no hopes of Conroy’s recovery. It is stated that the driver did not sound his whistle. The Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Annual Show was held yester day. The weather was fine, and a large number of visitors from all parts of the Coast were present. The exhibits, in number, showed a slight falling off, but the quality of stock of all descriptions showed great improvement, the horses and cattle in particular. In thoroughbred entires Hippodamia, the property of Mr W. Walters, of Auckland, gained th first and champion prizes also thesilver cup for being the best blood entire on the ground. Capapie, the property of the Auckland Stud Co., was second. Patriarch, Dilke, and Barbarian were also exhibited. The champion prize for clydesdale stallion was gained by W. Craig's Sir Robt. Bunces. The champion prize for purebred bulls was awarded to Sir Hercules, bred by Messrs McLean and Co., of Penrose (Auckland) and now the property of Messrs Arruiidel and Ross. CHRISTCHURCH, This day. A rumor travelled round town last night that small-pox had broken out iu, a Chinaman’s place in Lichfield street. The Heath Officer visited it aud found about a dozen Chinamen smoking opium who all appeared to be healthy enough, and no basis could be found for the rumor, The funeral of the late Colonel Packs took place yesterday afternoon, when a targe number followed his remains to their last resting place. The body was borne to the grave by the members of the old No. 2 Canterbury Rifle Volunteers (dow defunct), of which Colonel Pack* wan captain, and followed by a targe number of prominent residents aud well-known volunteer officials. In deference to expressed wishes of deceeased no music was permitted, aud no funeral volley was fired over his grave. Other forgeries of Hempton’s have come to light, and to a large amount, considerable surprise is expressed in some quarters that the defaulter was allowed to get away so easily as he did. Ono of his forgeries was detected, it is said, so long ago as Thursday last, aud, though that appears to have been settled iu some way or another, that of Mr Martin’s case for £248 came to light on Saturday. It is supposed that Hempton never left by steamer on Saturday, and that he was|seeu last at Rangiora on Monday or Tuesday. AUCKLAND, This Day. George Duucan, aged 18, aud Wm. Leighton, his cousin, while working at brickmaking at Henderson’s Mill, were buried alive by the fall of a bauk of earth 14 feet high. Watson Duncan noticed the accident from a distance, and went and dug where he heard : the veiee ef Lsighteni and get him eat alite.

When George Duncan was got out he was dead ;he had evidently been suffocated. It is supposed the bank loosened through, the late rains.

The City Council have refused to take a poll of burgesses on the question of bringing into operation or otherwise the Contagious Diseases Act. /Xt yesternight’s meeting several Councillors expressed their opinion that legal proceedings should be taken against the so-called religious paper for printing an obscene advertisement intended as a skit on the Act. Sir George Grey has promised further gifts of old manuscripts to the Auckland Library. A girl named Amy Hedges, aged 16, has reported to the police that her mother who died sixteen months ago, and who Dr Boyntor certified had died of apoplexy, was really poisoned by her stepfather with arsenic. She also states that after the funeral the stepfather attempted to violate herself and her sister. The body of the deceased Mrs Hedges was exhumed this afternoon, and a post mortem will be held to-morrow. HAVELOCK, This Day. John McDowell’s home at Kaituna Valley, 64 miles from Havelock, was burnt to the ground at 4 o’clock this morning. The fire was occasioned by the bursting of a kerosone lamp. The children were rescued. The furniture was all burnt. Assistance was at hand. The building alone was insured for £l5O. PATEA, This Day. The Harbor Board, having been brought to book at a public meeting for alleged apathy in the matter of improving the river entrance, a general resignation is imminent. The Chairman and one member have already resigned.