LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1200, 13 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov, 11. Mr Rollestox addressed his constituents last night. The attendance was not very large. After reviewing the session, the length of which he attributed to the political youth of many members preventing organisation, he defended the policy of the Government, and dwelt on the importance and usefulness of many measures passed, especially the Land Act. He was not generally favorable to borrowing, but it was necessary to do it to complete the Public Works scheme, and doing so could not have been delayed. The Colony was in u thoroughly sound condition at present, and there were of growing prosperity. He maintained the importance of completing the trunk lines of railway in each Island originally intended ; and, while anxious to see the Middle Island westward line constructed, he, under stringent questioning, refused to pledge himself to that line in preference to the extension to Cook’s Straits. A vote of thanks and confidence was proposed and received with cheers and hisses, and an amendment of thanks only, as his statements were not satisfactory, was moved, but negatived, and the original motion carried. Very few of the 70 or SO persons were present at the voting. The late Robert ChapmanV remains were brought from Melbourne in the Wairarapa, and were interred at Rangiora yesterday. Geo. Beatty, the owner of the Palace Hotel and Theatre Royal, died this morning. Two men were arrested, on suspicion of setting fire to Little Akaroa temporary hotel, and were remanded.

Weston and Holmes, law examiners, have just completed the examination of students and gentlemen already admitted elsewhere. Of 12 candidates only 3 are recommended for admission. The examiners have not awarded to any of the candidates the gold medal and certificates of merit offered by the Canterbury Law Society. On Saturday night H. A. Slade and G. Robinson wrestled in Cumberland style, for £5O a side and the Championship. They were very evenly matched, and during three-and-a-half hours’ wrestling only three falls were obtained—Slade two, Robinson one. The match will be resumed this evening. At the sale of Mr G. G. Stead’s andMr Nosworthy’s racing stud yesterday, the bidding was fairly brisk. The principal sales on account of Mr Stead were Trickster, 2 yrs, 225 guineas. To Mr Guansell of Hawkes Bay, Sir Benedore, 2 yrs; to Mr Brabazon, 300 guineas, Llanessa; to Mr Paul, Blenheim, 80 guineas, Poll, 2 yrs ; Mr Gammell, 250 guineas, colt, foaled March, 1882 ; See Saw, Fairyland, Hon. G. McLean, 130 guineas ; Bay filly, September, ISBI, Leoliiniss, Crinoline, Redwood, 130 guineas; Black filly, September, 1881, Leahiniss, Mr Murray, Hawke's Bay, 150 guineas, Leonnta, 1879 ; Mr Martin, Hawke’s Bay, 50 guineas, Lois D’Or, 1879. Traducer, Rupee, 85 guineas, Mr Redwood ; Bayard, Tubal Cain, Royal, Hart Pool, Wangan 140 guineas; Beeracker, 225 guineas, Mr Butler. Several of Noseworthy’s horses were bought by Stead ; Paris, Piince, Hon. G. McLean, at from 160 guineas downwards.

DUNEDIN, This Day. Staff-Sergeant Bell, of Wellington, won the Stafi Match. The Dunedin City Guards won the Otago Ladies Challenge Shield, which was the last event of the meeting. The ball to the Rifle Representatives on Friday night was not a success. A woman named Hannah O’Brien was fined £5 or one month, for assaulting another woman who had given evidence against her in a Police Court. Arrived—Ships Piako and Dunedin both from London. All well. The Invercargill and Oamaru brass bands have arranged a contest to take place here at Easter. The proprietors of the two totalisators which are Kept going on every race, have been summoned for Tuesday in connection with the Melbourne Cup. Ou dit that Arnold Meinath, soft goods man, failed, liabilities £10,006. Daniel Stephenson, manager for Royse, Stead and Co., died on Saturday from exhaustion caused by a shock to the system, the result of the Waitaki railway accident. He was in one of the hinder carriages which did not leave the line. AUCKLAND, Nov. 11. The Mayor yesterday publicly presented Henry Bull with the Victorian Humane Society Certificate for gallantry in rescuing Mrs Naughton from drowning at Helcnsville, on Sept. 19, 1881. Tu Tawhiao, eldest son of the King, and some of the Kingite chiefs are visiting Auckland. Seven thousand people went across to the North Shore yesterday expecting to see the Maori Canoe Race. A war dance was performed in the presence of about 4,000 people between the Waikato and Ngapuhi tribes. Sixty cases of machinery arrived by the Loch Urr, for the Auckland Fibre Company. It comprises all the latest improvements for handling fibre and spinning yarn for binding purposes. The verdict on Mrs Scott, the wife of the captain of the Rowena, was “Death from natural causes.” The dispute between the architects and builders is assuming the proportions of a dead-lock. The Maori war canoe race was rather a hollow affair. The entries were—Omapere, from the Bay of Islands, with 30 men ; Oparongi, Waikrto, 70 men; Te Weoro Tatarako, 40 men, Waikato. The Omapere went off with the lead, and came in an easy winner by 400 yards ; Aparangi, second. First prize, £lOO ; second, £5O ; third, £2O. The Waikato protested that the Omapere was not a war canoe. The Australian cricketers are on board the mail boat en route for Sydney. This Day. A lad. aged 12, named Ernest Travers Chalk, was thrown from a horse on Saturday. His foot caught in the stirrup and the boy was dragged a considerable distance. He died within a few minutes. A sad drowning accident occurred at Queenstreet wharf on Saturday night. A woman, Letitia Bryant, while waiting the arrival of her husband from Riverhead, fell into the water. Capt. Tye, of Alexandra ferry steamer, jumped after her. The woman in the water after struggling for a minute or two sank, and at the same time it was noticed that Tye was apparently in a drowning state. A boat from one of the steamers had now been lowered and Captain Smith and mate put off to the assistance of those in the water. The first they reached was Tye, who when caught was sinking for the last time, and who had already sank some 2 or 3 feet under the water when caught hold of. By this t ; me a man named Rose took off his clothing and j umped into the water from off the whaif, and swam to where the woman was last seen, and not being able to see anything of her he dived under the water, but was unsuccessful in finding her ; he dived again and brought the body to the surface. She moved her arms once or twice and expired. While Rose was in the water his clothing and £56 6s in his pockets was stolen. The byestanders subscribed for a new suit of clothing.

It has since transpired that Tye could not swim, and jumped in the water on the impulse of the moment. Mrs Bryant was the wife of a carpenter and leaves 5 children. Bryant leaves for Rotorua in a week.

The U. 8.8. Company’s Wairarapa arrived here, after a very smart passage of 21 hours, from Gisborne, this morning, being the fastest on? record THE END OF THE WORLD. Dispatches from London, October Sth, Bay that tlie comet is all the talk of scientific circles. At present it is being regarded with considerable apprehension. Mr Richard A. Proctor, who denied that it was the comet of 1843 and 1880, now finds that he made a mistake in his calculations, and so has withdrawn his statement. More cautious astronomers than he have no doubt of the identity of the comet, and believe that it will return at the latest in October, 1883, and will then fall into the sun with results that will dispense with the future publication of the newspapers of the w'orld. It is said this is the opinion of the day. Mr C. Prazzi Smithl the clever astronomer Royal of Scotland, in particular, haring made no secret of his belief that the end of the world is at hand. WELLINGTON, Thia Day. In the Divorce Court to-day, a decree absolute was granted in the case of Levoi v. Lovol. No order was made us to the custody of the children. The Appeal Court opened this morning with the case of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. against Paterson and McLeod [Dunedin], The case will last all day.