LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1236, 30 December 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per unitkd press association]. DUNEDIN, This Day. Consequent on Captain Underwood’s retirement the following changes in the Union Company’s service are announced ;—Captain Carey is to be transferred to the Rotomahana, Captain McGee to the Te Anau, Captain Jones to the Rotorua, Captain Berneoh to the Manapouri, Captain Allman to the Southern Cross, Captain Kennedy gets the Hauroto, Captain McGillivray taking the Ilawea, Captain Mclntosh the Hero, Capt dn Webster the Omapere, Captain Anderscm resii j command of the Penguin, which will be recommissioned afteu a coinplete overhaul, A UCKLAND, This Day. Elizabeth Olsen, who was assaulted by her husband yesterday, is still in a critical condition, but is in good spirits. Dr Goldsboro’ is of opinion that no immediate danger of her dec.?*S6 need be apprehended. Superintendent Thomson has arranged that in the event of i > relapse the depositions of the woman shall be taken, Hamilton and Priestley’s case of supposed murder comes o« to-day. The police are ready with theii ’ evidence for the prosecution, but the counsel for the defence intend to ask for a furtl »er remand. THAMES, This Day. Captain William Davies, harbormaster, and formerly N iayor of the borough and a member of the ’Provincial Council for the district, died this morning. The deceased was much respected, and his remains will be given a Masonic; funeral on Sunday. The police have laid an information against n, young woman named Annie Stackpoole, whose dead inf ant was recently found under suspicious circumstances, for concealment of birth. The case comes on for [hearing on Wednesday. A young man named John Davis lies in hospital from concussion of the brain, consequent upon a fall from a horse. He is not ex pected to live. He is a son of the late Rev . Davis, Baptist Minister.

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Reassuring accounts are to hand from the country districts regarding the crops. Contrary to expectation little damage has been done beyond what a few days of warm weather will recover. In the north, however, bruised crops have suffered heavily and appearances are at present against them. WELLINGTON, This Day. Sir Julius Vogel was entertained at a banquet by the Wellington Club last night, Colonel Pearce in the Chair. Among those paesent were Sir James Prendergast, Major Atkinson, and the Hon- Walter Johnston. The gathering was entirely of a non-political character. Three hundred and sixty-one nominations for immigrants are to be forwarded this mail. The number for each district being—Auckland, 90 souls ; Taranaki, 11 ; Hawke’s Bay, 22 ; Wellington, 54 ; Nelson, 15; Westland, 7 ; Marlborough, 4 ; Canterbury, 50; Otago, 85; and Southland, 23. The amount received for fees was £]o29 7s 6d.. Major Atkinson leaves to-morrow for New Plymouth for a short holiday. The Premier is expected to return from Auckland on the 15th January.