LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1242, 9 January 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[esK UStTBD PRESS ASSOCIATION J. BLEKHEIM, This day. An infant, aged 18 months, son of a laborer named Whiffling, fell into the Onawa river this morning and was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered. WEIJLINGTON, This day. H. Wright has been elected secretary of the Wellington Meat and Export Company. Gears Butchering Co have contracted for the slaughtering until the yards are erected. The Lady Jooelyn commences loading meat on the 18th. instant.

Preparations on an extensive scale are being made with a view of giving Sir Wm. Jervois a befitting reception on his arrival here on the IBth inst. The Mayor of Wellington has, it is understood, invited the Mayors of the principal towns of the Colony to be present. All the local Friendly Societies will taike part in the proceedings. Schoolmasters i n the city have been written to to arrange, i f possible, for a procession of the school child ren, by whom the National Anthem will be sung.

CHEiISTCHURCH, This Day. W. Burnip, licensee of the Middleton Hotel, Kaiapoi, was charged with supplying James Kinley, against whom a prohibition order had been issued, was fined £lO or one month’s imprisonment. The conviction was endorsed on the license, J, Griffiths a tradesman, on. a similar charge, for supplying one John Armstrong, was fined £5. The Magistrate recommended an amendment in the Act, with a view to prohibition orders being advertised, in the newspapers.

TIMARU, This Day. A skeleton found on the beach at North Timaru is believed to be the remains of one the three men who lost their lives at the time of the wreck on May 14, and Whose bodies have never been recovered. A movement is on foot at Geraldine to start a woollen factory. At a largely attended meeting on Friday, an influential committee was appointed to obtain the necessary information and to report at an early date,