LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1347, 25 August 1883, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(rKOM OVK OWN COKSSSrONDEXT), CHRISTCHURCH, The shipment of frown meat by ths Catalonia, comprises 17,436 carcases of sheep, average weight 66 lbs. | Southern Cross shares are now fetching 7s to 7» fld. The directors are pleased with the information supplied by the general manager from Gisborne, who is now' here, and tney are determined to push on operations. There is a general tendency to hold the stock, and few shares are to be obtained, TIMABU. A number of men, who through Mr Turn, bull, M.H.R., petitioned Parliament to remove them to the North Island, have refused work at (js a day, offered by the Immifixation officer, * AUCKLAND. The police proceeded to-day against the landlords of the Scotia aud Globe hotels, for selling liquor adulterated with water, the evidence showed the rum was half water, The bench reserved its decision. The tender of Daniel Fallon, for £10,309 hac been accepted for the Lichfield contract. The Thames-Rotorua railway works will be commenced forwith. The police proceeded to-day against the landlords of the Scotia and Globe Hotels, for selling liquor adulterated with water. A number of technical objections having been taken, the Bench reserved its decision. WELLINGTON, A bootmaker named McLellan, was committed for trial for receiving stolen goods. The evidence proved that the prisoner enticed two youths in a large warehouse to supply him with uppers, which were stolen, he paying a nominal price for them. The boys for stealing the uppers were each sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. The pigeon, poultry, canary, and dog show was opened this afternoon by His Excellency the Governor. The number of entries is close upon 400. The poultry and pigeons were of a very fine class. DUNEDIN. The Public Works Department offered to open a section of the Otago Central railway for the unemployed at 28s per week, but the men considered it inadequate. Newton, Town Clerk of West Harbor, has been committed for trial for destroying books and documents, the property of the Borough West Harbor, Angus Ross, book agent, started to walk along the railway line from Stirling to Kaitangata on Tuesday night. He sat down and fell asleep, and the train coming along, struck him and knocked him off the line. He was found next morning insensible, with four ribs broken. The night was bitterly cold. . The Pembroke buggy accident resulted in no fatality. Mrs Hassing, one of the occupants of the buggy, had both jaws fractured, and her face dreadfully cut. Mr Austin had his leg broken. As the 10 o’clock goods train from Clinton and Invercargill was nearing Wairua en Thursday night, John Henderson, fireman, was shot dead by a man unknown alongside the line ; the brakesman and driver were also on the engine at the time. The guard Duncan saw two flashes, and immediately after deceased threw up his arms exclaiming “ Oh, Peter, 5 ' to Peter Dunn, driver of the a engine, and expired. Those on the train ■ extinguished the lights and bacxed the train to Clinton. Inspector Weldon and two detectives proceed to Clinton this morning,