LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1203, 16 November 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per united press association], WELLINGTON, This Day. Nothing has yet been done with regard to filling the vacancy of the Assistant Crown Law Officer.* The .Spring Show in connection with the Horticultural Society, which opened yesterday afternoon, is a very creditable one, but the weather is very boisterous. A settler named C. Claxton, residing near Featherston was drowned yesterday afteri noon in the Tauherinikau river. Tlie body has not yet been recovered. An inquest is to be held on the recent fire at Newtown. DUNEDIN, This Day. The ninth annual meeting of shareholders in the National Insurance Company was held yesterday, Mr Keith Ramsay, Vice-Chair-man, presided. The Directors’ report was adopted recommending a dividend of 10 per cent, making, with the interim dividend, 20 per cent for the year, and carrying forward £5619. The Mosgiel Woollen Company’s report shows that the balance on the year’s operation available for distribution is £4522. The directors recommend the payment of a dividend absorbing £2820, the balance being i ■ carried forward. The additions during the < 1 year amount to £13949. The stock and raw ; i material in the hands of the Company are I valued at £21,533. i Tenders are about to be called for a further section of the Otago Central line which will carry the line four miles from the junction with the main line, and nine miles further will carry it to Sutton. Mrs Kitto, wife of Wm. Kitto, of Dumbarton Rock, cut her throat with a dinner knife. The windpipe was partly cut, but the main artery was .not severed. She is expected to recover. The woman has had occasional attacks of insanity. The information against Walters for unlawfully wagering and gaining, was dismissed on the grounds that the room in which the Totalisator was worked was not a I public place within the meaning of the Act. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Kaiapoi Woollen Company have introduced a gas engine into their Christchurch

Factory, in order to work sewing machines, and relieve operations of labor. Col. Tupman and Lieut. Coke, who have been sent to Canterbury by the British Government to observe the Transit of Venus on December 7th, have nearly completed preparations at the observatory at Burnham. They have occupied the buildings erected for the accommodation of Major Palmer who took observations at the previous transit. TIMARU, This Day. Captain Bezan, of the Brigantine Oceola, which arrived here from Newcastle, reports passing a quantity of wreckage, west of Foveaux Straits ; amongst it was a lower mast painted white, and what looked like a man lashed to it, but the weather was too dirty to permit of the vessel heaving to. Captain Bezan also states that when about six miles south of Timaru this morning he felt a very severe shock, the sea being violently disturbed over a considerable space. A number of dead fish floated to the surface and appeared as if a submarine explosion had taken place. NET. • N, This Day. | The cricket match yestc. between the : Licensed X'ictuallers, of ellington, and ' Nelson was won by the latter by an innings j and 49 runs to spare. The visitors were en- 1 tertained at the Trafalgar Hotel last night. AUCKLAND, This day. Lovegrove, a Waikato painter and glazier, who is going to England to claim the Ear

i of Derwentwatcr’s estate, arrived, here yesI terday. He was six years away from Home, and states that he ran away from home and entered the navy at fifteen years of age and took part in the Crimean War. His father was a pic vendor somewhere in Yorkshire, and his relatives always believed him dead. The esates have been in Chancery over 100 years. OPUNAKE, This Day. The heavy rain has caused a fresh in the river yesterday. While the Parihaka coach was crossing the Oanui river torrents of water came down suddenly sweeping the coach, horses, and driver away. The driver went along with the current until he managed to j get on one of the banks and thus escaped, i The horses were found dead en the beach a couple of milee from the scene of the accident, I and the front, of the coach has bocn seen. The English mails were on board, and a i search party has boon out, and it is expected l that the mails will be recovered to-day.