LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1271, 9 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

/ Tphr united prbbs association]. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Governor has postponed his departure from Wellington until the 19th inst. He has also decided to make call at Lawrence, and will visit there oa his return from Queenstown. The Simonsen Opera Troupe concluded a fairly successful season last night, and left for Nelson to-day. At a meeting of the H arbor Board today, the Dock question was Reopened, and opinions were expressed that every effort should be made to obtain a suitable Dock for the Port. After a long discus sion, it was resolved to apply to the Govern meat for endowments. As to the prohibit ion placed on the importation of grapes, it is understood that the Government will mft alter the decision they arrived at.

An Order in Council was published tonight to the effect that ordinary telegrams will be destroyed after being kept one year. The following bonuses will be paid on articles produced in the Colony :—Silk : A bonus of 50 per cent, on the value realised for the first £ICO worth of cocoons of silkworms or silkworms’ eggs produced in the Colony, to be puid on quantities of not less value than £50,. nor more than £lOO, produced by any one person. Manganesen and manganese bnonze : A bonus of £5OO will be given for the first £2,500 worth of mai iganesen, Mid a similar bonus for a like ami >unt of manganese bronze produced in the Col ony from New Zealand ores, and sold at afs ir price in a foreign market. Marble : A h -onus of £3OO will be given for the first £l3 00 worth of New Zealand marble exported from the Colony, and sold in a foreign mai ket at a price of not less than 9s per cub ic foot. Antimony : A bonus of £5OO will be given for the first 250 tons of antin lony regulus produced in the Colony from N'ew Zealand ores, and sold at a fair market pi dee in a foreign market. Wrought Iron: A l)onus of £lOOO will be given for the production in New Zealand, by direct process, of 200 tons of “iron blooms” of marketable quality from ore produced in New Zealand, No tice as to intention to claim a bonus must be given to the Colonial Secretary not later tha n the 31st December, 1883.

TVie Japanese man-of war Tsukuba arrived in fctarbor last night, and anchored in the quaa tantine ground. There are no particulars, Tl ie amount of the Property Tax for the finar icial year exceeds £146,000; this is with in four or five thousand of the Estimate s. Numerous returns from all parts of the (. Colony have yet to come to hand. The Japanese Man-of-War which arrived in harbor last night is the corvette Ringio, 1459 tons, Captain Sto, 52 days from Japan, Salutfli? were exchanged this morning. Two vessels are at the Heads, one is the three-masted schooner Mercury, from New York, and the other is supposed to be the ship Garelock, from London, 87 days out. DUNEDIN, Thia Day. A rather singular “resurrection” movement is now being carried on amongst the Chinese. It seems that the friends of all the Celestials who came to this Colony from one of the Canton Provinces, and who died here, have raised a fund to deport to the burial places of their ancestors tne bones of the defunct. A society here has charge ef the operations. They employ ' ‘ ” who are busy not only in Dunedin and throughout Otago, but over the whole Colony, disinterring the natives of this particular province. In Dunedin 38 bodies have been raised, and a special store house for the bodies has been nuiit near Dunedin, and a considerable number now lie there awaiting shipment to China. Each coffin is properly labelled with the name of its inmate, so that no confusion may arise, and this has been rendered easier as full record is kept by.some of the leading Chinese of every one of their countrymen who were buried, Rather a quandary arose over the remains of one individual which had gone to a Professor of Anatomy at the local University. However, the comforting fiction urged that the University was the barbarian burial place, satisfied all enquiring friends, and certain bones were duly produced which were accepted on the word of the Professor as those of the particular deceased. A serious accident occurred on board the Oamaru dredge in Port Chalmers. While hoisting a four-ton cylinder one of thd shears broke, striking John Basin* on the head, inflicting a fracture of tho skull, the fracture of one leg, and other injuries. The man was removed to the Hospital in an unconscious state. The cylinder fell among the machinery, breaking the sole plate of the engine, and doing other damage. At the City Court the hearing of the charges against Massey were resumed, the evidence of the Melbourne witnesses being taken.

The Melbourne witnesses in Massey’s case fully identified Mrs Massey as the Mrs Allen and Mrs Brown who sold the waterworks debentures. Mr and Mrs Massey were fully committed for trial, and bail was increased. It is announced that the Northern Railway Extension Commission have handed in their report to the Government. A butcher was, to-day, fined £5 for having short weights. One 71b weight was half a pound short. Th,e “ Star” publishes correspondence accusing Captain Fairchild, of the Stella, of discourtesy and inattention to the solitary settlers and prospectors at Big Bay and other places on the West Coast. Emir Bey was scrached for all engagements. . • TIMARU, This Day. The Harbor Board has accepted a very favorable offer from the Bank of New Zealand to raise the £lOO,OOO loan. AUCKLAND, This Day. Further successful experiments were made at Onehunga works in smelting iron sand. The Hon. Mr Holmes, Mr Seed, Secretary of Customs, and a number of Auckland merchants were present. BLENHEIM, This day. At the last meeting of the Directors of the Picton Coampany, the Engineer reported that on the East side of Shakespear Bay a shaft has been sunk about 30 feet to the Fast of the thick seam. This shaft is to be 85 feet deep, and from the bottom a crosscut will be driven into the coal at a depth of 30 feet below the old working. As soon as coal is cut here the levels will be driven North and South along its strike, and in the event cJf a considerable quantity of coal being proved, the working of it will be commenced at once. The adit level of 220 feet which was driven from high water mark to the shaft cut coal some distance North of the old working seam at this point was only 15 inches thick, but showed signs of widening on the floor, and was of excellent quality. The sinking of the shaft should be finished* in about a week, and another forthight would suffice to prove coal for a considerable distance North and South on the West side of the Bay. A tunnel being driven with a view of testing the coal in the Southern portion of the field, and , there is every probability of coal being struck here at an early date. I

GHKISTCHUftUH, ThisJMy, .Ha a, E. Richard rim, in a tele«ri«n to a political meeting at Jxieston, says heoemes forwydfor Selwyn i>s direct opposition to didate Ve, /nment ’ MaU s^on The “ Star" states, on what it belie-es to be good authority, that the Hon. C. C, Bowen has been knighted. OAMARU, This day. A fatal accident occurred at Ngapara to a n s me( l Tom, Re was taking the winkers off a horse wher. it bolted, knocking him down, and the Kvheel of the dray passed over his head, NAPIER, This Day. At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Meat Export Company to-day, a resolution was passed tr, voluntarily wind up the Company. The Directors to be the liquidators. Groat interest is manifested in tho elections fr,r the Harbor Board.