LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1359, 22 September 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

(from our own correspondent). WELLINGTON. Captain Edwin has received telegrams from all the meteorological stations on the East Coast stating that no sign of the comet was visible last night, althought a lookout was kept for it. His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by the Minister of Education visited the Normal School to day. .After an inspection of the building, Sir William Jervois addressed the students, saying he was pleased at what he had seen. Thanks to Arnold and Rugby, who had imparted goed education, his Excellency said that now teaching < was not Eonsidered of a similar inferior character as foomerly. He then referred to < the fact that the school had this day three » years been opened by Sir H. Robinson, during which time steady progress had been made and he hoped it would continue to prosper. A boatman named Henry Davis fell dead this afternoon. He was attending the funeral of an old Maori man, when he fell and expired almost immediately. The supposed cause is heart disease. At the Salvation Army meeting this evening Mrs Barker presented the local corps with colors. At the tea meeting which followed there was a large attendance. A meeting of the Cabinet, occupying all the morning, was held to-day. It is understood that the business was generally routine. A case of some interest to publicans has been decided in the Supreme Court in bauco. The applicant was Wm. Light, licensee of the Queen’s Hotel, convicted by Mr Hardcastle, R.M., under section 155 of the Licensing Act, 1881, for permitting an unlawful game to be played in his licensed ‘V public house after the hour of closing. The fl game played was “ euchre,” and it was contended by counsel for appellant that the f' section only applied to billiards, bagatelle, and other games of the same genus, and not to games with cards. The Court upheld this view, pointing out that the fact of playing card games tor money was met by section 149, The appeal was therefore allowed. AUCKLAND. The growing trade between Auckland and Fiji and tho adjacent islands, has induced the New Zealand Herald to send a special commissioner there, and his letters are now being published. They show that settlors are now dissatisfied with the modes of Government in existence, and especially with the Crown colony of Fiji, where great official tyranny prevails. Tho Union S.S. Company intend sending one of their large boats on a special pleasure trip for a month < among various islands during the present summer months.

Shaw, Savill & Co’s. agent has received advice that the company are despatching the steamer Triumph, of 2,849 tons, for Auckland. The Kalo Coal company have bought the steamer Waitaki. Sailed—Doric, for Lyttelton. Two somewhat serious accidents occurred here yesterday. A man named Smith was precipitated to the ground by the fall of some scaffolding and sustained severe injuries, his left arm being fractured in two places. The other case was a boot and shoe manufacturer named Matthew Moore, who got one of his hands badly crushed in°a leather cutting press. CHRISTCHURCH. The Industrial Association passed a resolution last night, asking the Government to invite tenders in the colony for the manufacture of rolling stock.