LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1327, 10 July 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NAPIER, Monday. A telegram has been received from the Agent-General, slating that the design of W. W. Culcheth, Esq., of Hawthorne, Melbourne, have been selected* as the most suitable for the proposed new Harbor works. The Board telegraphed to Mr Culcheth for a copy of the designs, &c., which are expected to arrive on Saturday week. Mr W. Poole was, on Saturday, presented with a gold locket and a purse of sovereigns by his admirers, in recognition of the plucky manner in which he ran against Williams in the recent match. Mr Robert Stuart, for many years a resident here, and for some time mayor, died on Saturday last. BLENHEIM, Monday. A lad named John Smith, son of John Smith, tinsmith, was accidentally shot through the head by his brother Frank, on Saturday last, while playing with a gun left in his fathers shop for repairs. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The first issue of the Graphic, a new illustrated weekly paper, appeared for the first time on Saturday, It has been resolved to form an Hydraulic Company, with a capital of £50,000. A painful scene occurred at funeral on Sunday. The procession arrived at the gates of the cemetery, which were locked. They were broken open, and it was then discovered that no grave had been dug. After some delay in procuring tools, a few friends dug a grav c. TIMARU, Monday. A lad named James Wright, aged 13, was charged, on Saturday, with horse-stealing. He borrowed a horse and saddle in Timaru, aud after going north, sold it, and borrowed another. He was remanded. DUNEDIN. Friday. For creating a disturbance at the close of of the Salvation Army meeting, on Sunday night, four young men, members of the Skeleton Army, were fined in sums ranging from £2 to £lO , or one month or six weeks imprisonment as an alternative. At the inquest on Alexander Stuart («on of the Rev. Dr. Stuort) who was found deal in his bed on Friday, it was shown that a quantity of cyanide of potassium was in deceased’s stomach, which haff evidently been taken in mistake for borax, to remedy a sore throat. The Jury found that death proceeded from deceased having accidentally poisoned himself. At the inpuest on the bodies of Mr and Mrs Stephenson, the jury brought in a verdict to the effect that the deceased persons met their death by the explosion of a dynnmite cartridge, fired by George Timothy Stephenson, but there was no evidence to show the state of mind deceased was in when he fired the cartridge. AUCKLAND, Monday. A boy eight years of age was so illtreated by larrikins, that the doctors thought lockjaw would supervene, though his condition has since improved. A man, believed to be an employee of the Sugar Company, was accidentally drowned by falling overboard from the Northcote ferry steamer on Saturday afternoon. The City Council have offered a reward of £5O for the discovery of the person who cut the hose at the late fire. Dessructive floods at Coromandel have washed away, or badly damaged, all the bridges. They have also caused considerable damage to private property. nM MASTERTON, Monday. The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Fastoral Society, at which WC. Buchanan, M.H.R., presided That this meeting calls upon Government to take immediate steps to eradicate scab in the Wairarapa district.