LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1267, 5 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

I [per united press association]. WELLINGTON, This Day. * The Premier leaves by the Te Anau on i Monday next (to-day), for Lyttelton. Mr Whitaker will visit the chief centres of Canterbury and Ocago, including Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and the chief gold field towns. He is expected to be absent from Wellington about three weeks, and will probably return about the 25th instant. HOKITIKA, This day. Over 8000 shares were applied for in Hokitaka alone in the Golden Hill Water Race and Mining Company. The list closes next Saturday. There ate twelve candidates for five vacancies in the Harbor Board. DUNEDIN, This Day. A private telegram received here, states there is a likelihood of Bishop Moran being asked to contest Inangahua. Guthrie and Larnach’s liquidators have sold the Kew saw mills, near Invercargill, to Messrs Henry and Munro, for £4OOO. Only one Otago company of volunteers and at Portobello two, have been disbanded. 600 men in all have been sworn in under the volunteer regulations. The fruiterers are memoralising Government to remove the restrictions on the importation of grapes. Dalgetty and Co. have received a cable of advice to the effect that the meat shipped by the New South Wales Frozen Meat Co., per Garrone, was cleared at the following prices: —Beef, 5Ad ; mutton, GLI. The market is weak, owing to the large quantities being afloat. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. John Epps, a workman at the Wairau bridge, fell off and was drowned. He was a jrood swimmer, and held the Royal Humane Society’s Medal for saving life, but in his fall must have struck some woodwork and became insensible. Mr. E. J. Lee is in the field for Selwyn, and Mr. A. Saunders, and Mr. R. Rockland, are mentioned as probable candidates. A total of 481 men have now been sworn in in Canterbury, under the new Volunteer regulai ions. Alex. Wells, seaman on board the Annie Hill, while climbing up the cliff at Lyttelton fell down on to the rocks and re•eived dangerous injuries. The Maori Ratima, charged with the murder at Kaikouri, has been lodged in Lyttelton Gaol to await the next session of the Supreme Court.

AUCKLAND, This Day. The Wesleyan Conference have adopted rules for a loan fund of £lO5O already promised. The final session will beheld to-aay. A temperance meeting under the auspices of the \\ esleyan, Mjjthcxiist, and Primitive Methodist Conferences, passed a resolution in favor of closing all public-houses at 10 p.m., and pledging present only to vote for candidates for the Licensing Bench who were favorable to s’llc-h a course. Arrived—Australia, with the English and American mails via San Fmncisco. She left ’Frisco J6th January. Honolulu 23rd. New Zealand passengers—Mrs L. B. Arnt, James Hay, Mr Goffee. and four steerage. GREYMOUTH, This day. Seven vessels, carrying about 1000 tons of coal, left here yesterday for various ports. TAURANGA, This day. A party ef ten of the A. C. force arrived at Taupo on Saturday, in charge of Sergeant Brown of Tarawera. |They have made an average of twenty miles a day from Napier to Taupo. The weather was very hot and roads very dusty. Mr Wright and party left on Saturday to survey a line of road from Taupo to Tokano. King!, Heri, Keikei, and other obstructionists nave left for Patea. WANGANUI, This Day. On Saturday afternoon a harvest laborer [ named Henry Mead, was drowned in the i lake at Waitotara while bathing. The body has not yet been recovered. T* —