LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1234, 28 December 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

! [PER UNITED PRESS ASF OCIATION]. WELLD-IGf/ON, This Day. I Rain fell heavily thv j morning, and is ■ , much needed by the far' .ners. Sir Julius Vogel arrived by the from Lyttelton at • jne o’clock yesterday, I was met by Major At.k\ n son and several of the leading citize.ns. Tr he will be entertained at luncheon, at j which the Mayor will | preside. Sir Julius remains in j until Monday next. ( is understood ' tbvL/.hp > tor Christchurch. He ! Colony in°afo a rt e p <le P artUr<) from the ‘ boy a were thro-' igl ? an ’ hie . wife and a Httle road kst nioM ‘’ D (° m a b " g ? y on the Hutt 1 ininrie. Yh g Z’„ and 81,stalne <i rat her serious I letTX’ tb,E f “ 1 eXtent of which have no ‘ yet been r,sc<.rtained. I 1 S y' lne .V’ w 'th the English ’’ iffc , , rls< '° for Auckland on the 18th I inst., t’ days late. I arrive /‘"f'Vi, I '?’ with the Colonial mails, . at Fusco from Auckland on the j iOtn mst., three days in advance of due date.

i r.. Auckland, This Day. ; Mie body of Miss Lavers, who was I , Alwned On Sunday, has been recovered ; I #nat of Miss Edith Wallace is not yet I found. The illegitimate child of a girl named Emily Johnston, was drowned at Cambridge . in a tub of water, by overbalancing itself. . I Mr Pilbrow, owner of Welcome Jack, in- | tends to send his horse to Melbourne next I year, to run for the Cup. Murderous assault on a Woman. ' A murderous assault was committed here i this morning, A woman named Olsen was asleep in her bed when her husband attacked her with an axe and split her head ' open. He gave himself up to the police. : The woman was taken to the Hospital in an apparently dying state. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. . The rain yesterday- did immense benefit to the crops. ' The Colonial Secretary has replied to the ■ Railway League that a full enquiry into the ! ■ West Coast Routes shall be made, either by ' | the present Commission or another one. ! ; Serjeant McDonald had the small bone ' ; of his leg broken when leaving the Ohaka I I Kace Course, by his horse falling. i .Aman, who gave the name of Marshall, j j died in the Police cell this morning. He ‘ I was. found lying on a seat at the Railway ! j Station. He had been drinking, and had a ■ j bruise on the temple, which looked like the ' i result of a fall.

THAMES, This Day. • A serious accident occurred yesterday morning, on the road from Te Arolia to a young man named John Davis, while riding a horse he was thrown over the bridge. He was brought by steamer to the Thames Hospital. He has been unconscious ever since, and is not expected to survive. He is tha son of a former Baptist Minister at the Thames, DUNEDIN, This Day. W. Drinkwater, charged with attempting suicide by cutting his throat, was discharged.