LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1358, 20 September 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). CHRISTCHURCH. An elderly mm named Alexander, a hawker, committed suicide yesterday by taking spirits of salts. DUNEDIN. A boy, ten years of age, sou of the ligßthouse keeper at Cape Saunders, fell over a cliff a 100 feet high and the only injurjf sustained was a broken leg. WELLINGTON. Alajor and Mrs Barker, of the Salvation Irmy, wore formally received by officers of the lo •»! army on arrival from Lyttelton. Tomorrow Mrs Barker presents colors to the corps and then will be celebrated by a monster tea fight. \ NELSON. It is stated that Mr Shalleross, gailer here, is about to retire from that position. Mr Shalleross w.is chief of the Nffison police under the P ovincial Government for 13 years and held the office of gaoler 8 years. AUCKLAND. Letters from Mr Vesey Stewart state that the Tauranga-Rotorua Railway Company is being successfully floated iu Loudon. from Mr Bodell also state that the con*tfuc3 tion of a railway is a certainty, and that th« Hteimer Northumberland, of 2000 tons,! leaves direct for Tauranga this month, to he followed by a sailing vessel, bringing navvies immigrants, and plant for railway. King Kalakaa, of Hawaii, visile the Austra'ian Colonics next June. His Government has sent a protest against the Polynesi m Annexation scheme to all European Governments, as well as to America. Immigran’s by the Doric are spoken favorably of as healthy and respectable. Half single women, already engaged at wagee from 8s to 10.-* per week : cooks 15s. Mr March, Immigration officer from nhri«tc ! ’ureh, visited the quarantine island. He reported that all the cases of measles are improving, it is not expected that detention of people at the Island will not be long. The Doric issued the New Zealand fifteen * mutton purchased in London to the gers throughout the’voyage, and there wTf some still on board in excellent The cargo is being discharged day and night by the the electric light being used . night. f