LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, This Day. The “Dunedin Times” says Sir Julius Vogel leaves Melbourne for Dunedin in about a fortnight, making a brief stay at Taomarra. In the Ada Mantua Consultation the first prize goes to a member of the Armed Constabulary at Pungarehu, the second to Timaru, and the third to Oamaru. In the Fidelity Company’s Sweepstakes a Dunedin butcher takes the £9OO. The Union Company have received a cable message to the effect that the new steamer Hauroto sailed from Glasgow on Oct. 25, with 32 passengers for New Zealand. The City Council have been compelled to discontinue the supply of water for motive power te large consumers, as the Silver stream mains are inadequate. The Public Works Department are pegging out a site for a battery on the Headland overlooking the ocean beach. Great interest was taken here in the Melbourne Cup. The first result giving the name of the winner was received by the Press Association, and they also first received the names of the second and third horses.

An ex-policeman named Laurie, now a fishmonger, had a fight recently with James Rigby, who was connected with Woody ear's circus. Rigby had one eye gouged out, but replaced, and the top of one finger was bitten off. Laurie was so knocked about as to require medical aid, and was unable to appear in the police court to-day to answer the charge of assaulting Rigby. The case was remanded.

Dr Gillon, on leaving the hospital, of which he has been resident surgeon for upwards of three and a half years, was presented with a complimentary address by the patients. To-day, being the last day of the present circuit sessions of the Supreme Court, William Rattray, a civil servant committed on a charge of embezzlement, was formally called on to surrender, but there was no response, and the recognizance of his sureties was ordered to be estreated. The first section of the Manawatu railway reclamation at Pipitea was commenced yesterday. A supplementary Gazette issued to-day contains only notices under various Acts releasing" to land sales in different parts {of the I colony, Native affairs, cte., of no general interest. In the case of Mr J. Hall, coinmedian, v. Louisa Crawford, actress, for breach of engagement, the magistrate said the trustee must sue, as the plaintiff had become insolI vent, and as no trustee had as yet been ap- ! pointed, the case must be struck out. ■ During the month ending to-day, there ' were registered at Wellington 100 births, and 63 deaths, and 24 certificates of marriage were issued. AUCKLAND, This Day. It is proposed to establish another cheese j factory in Waikato. • Mr Gordon Gooch has been professionally j engaged for Melbourne during the Christmas : holidays. I Some time ago the ketch Adah left Auck- | land for Lord Howe Island, having onboard j Mr William Rowe with a party of men proI ceeding thither with the intention of bringing to New Zealand 20 or 30 tons of tin ore, found on that island, for testing purpascs. The party are expected to return here in three weeks. An Auckland ex press-man drew Assyrian in Zoo Jumbo’s Consultation, and an Auckland di aper (ludarz. CHRISTCHURCH, This day. A Papanui resident sent £2 to Melbourne to invest in a sweep, and drew Assyrian and Stockwell in a £2OOO venture. NELSON, This Day. The cutter Southern Cross brings news of a fatal accident at the French Pass on Sunday night. The cutter Hannah Jane, a very small one, left Nelson for Pelorus Sound on Saturday night, in charge of a man named Harvey, and with her owner, Mr Hoguerd, and his son, a fine young fellow about 20, on board. In attempting the Pass on Sunday night the current carried the cutter against the Beacon with considerable force, and a few minutes afterwards young Hoguerd was missed from the boat. His father, almost frantic, was with difficulty kept from jump* after Uiim The cottar altar avow Umo

got off, and was taken to Turner’s Bay for repairs. ALEXANDRA, This Day. Tawhaiao and Te Wheoro came in to see Mr Bryce to-day, and are now’ with him. It is uncertain whether there will be any meeting until to-morrow. DUNEDIN, This Day. Over £2OOO passed through the totalisator here in connection with the Melbourne Cup ; one winner was paid a dividend of £122. The first prize in one large sweep goes to Dunedin, and the second to Timaru. LYTTELTON, This Day. Arrived : Marlborough, ship, Capt. Anderson, from Bondon, 90 days ;47 passengers. WANGANUI, This Day. The body of a woman, Mrs. Shannon, "wife of a foundry blacksmith, was found floating in the river this morning. It appears that the deceased left the house about seven o'clock, and must have committed suicide by drowning shortly afterwards. She was of unsound mind, and had recently been an inmate of Mount View Asylum, but had partially recovered, and was sent home in coni sequence.