LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1362, 29 September 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

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reu . WELLINGTd’X, The Ci«y Council decided to appoint a solicitor at a salary of £6OO. In the Supreme Court to-day, judgment was given in the case Johnson Simeon, a case about certain Natives reserve! lease. Judgment was given for plaintiff on all iuuei, the oaae has been pending for four years. A smart shock of earthquake was felt her« at 7 o’clock last evening. The following additional bonuses on Colon* ial industries are offered by the Govern* nient ;-£5<M) for the production by machinery permanently established in New Zealanci of the first 10,000 g.lions of linseed oil of good marketable quality from linseed grown in Mra Colony j L5OO for first 25 tons of butter qt 50 tuns of cheese (produced in one factor ■ which shall be exported from New Z-alanP and -old at a price in the foreign market as shall show articles to be of fair quality i L5OO for first 50 tons of starch manufactured in colony, which shall be shipped to an English market, and for which a satisfactory certificate shall be given that the starch is of good quality ; Lsoo for the production of the first 50 ton* of printing paper, made by machinery permanently established, nnd working in the colony, the bonus to ba paid on th* first bona Jlde sale of the paper. The conditions are that the intention to claim bonuses must be made before the 31st December, 1888, and claim must be made before 30th June, 1884. The Dario sailed for Lyttelton She takes from Wellington about 5,.300 carcases of frozen meal DUNEDIN The big dredge is now Iffting 1,400 tons daily off the bar The soundings now show frum 20 to 22 feet at dead low water, which results are considered eminently sa’isfactorv Six butchers were charged yesterday selling a quanii y of ineat combining lead iron — ingredients injurious to health traveller for a firm of salt merchants that his firm supplied a preparation “ American ball,” which was described in

Dictiona-y as u tonic He believed all the bin chore used it, but did not know what the ingredients were. In reply to a question put by the police, witness said that he had not sold red lead or iron to butchers, but sage, salt and pepper. The cases were adjourned GERALDINE. The race meeting opened yesterday, the weather was fine and attendance good. Maidrn Hurdlk Racr, 30 sovs.—Melbourne, 1 ; Wa’crloo, 2. Maidrn Plats. 50 sovs, 1£ Miles.— Trickster, 1 ; Trinket, 2 ; Faust, 3. The race lay between Trickster and Trinket, the former winning by a length, Faust close up. Gkraldink Handicap, 150 sors., Miles.—O'Brien’s Tasman, 1; Stevensons’ Hyacinth, 2 ; Buller’s Emir Boy, 8. A grand race between the fi?-st two horses—Time, 2 mins. 17J secs.

Produce Stakes. —Catalonia, I : Queen Bee, 2 ; Lara, 3.