LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1363, 2 October 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S WIRES.

(from our own correspondent). NAPIER. Early on Sunday morning a lad named Caldwell, belonging to East Clive, was going out with milk, he foutd a woman named O’Reilly lying in six inches of water in a ditch by the roadside. The lad called the neighbors, and Mrs O’Reilly was carried to her brother’s house. Life* was almost extinct, and though every effort was made to restore animation, the woman died shortly after being found. AUCKLAND. The Prince Imperial Company has de* dared a dividend of 5s per share. DUNfiDtN.

The Refrigerating Company has received a cablegram, intimating that the average price realised for the lonic's cargo of frozen mutton is 6|d per lb. Iho wrestling ihatch between George \oberlson and Joseph Strong, took place at the Caledonian ground on Saturday. A stake of £lOO and the Society’s championship nelt depended upon the issue. Strong stripped a little over 14 stone, while Robertson, the luilf-c-stp, nearly turned the scale at 17 stone. The first fall occupied a lot of time, the men were very cautious in getting iold. The first time they locked, after An obstinate tussel, Strong wriggled out of hll opponents grip, and claimed a fall, on the ground that the latter had broken his hold. The Judges, however, disallowed it, and on closing again, Robertson got the best, grip, and ar er a few minutes of Intense excitement, cross buttockod his antogonisr. After a long interval for rest, the men again met, and once J more the superior strength of the half -caste proved to > much tor his more scientific oppon* ent and Robertson thus won the fi.st two falls, and was declared the winner* The Union Steamship Company intend to introduce a Hallam r-frigerating machine on one of their at earners so that dairy produce can be carried between the New Zealand and Kuel ralian colonics. They intend to bring out « cargo boat capable of storing from 80,000 to *0,009 carcases of aheep in a frosen •date, and so enable the o< a<tal towns to send stock to any port where a vessel is loading ( frozen meat for the London market. < CHRISTCHURCH. A daring attempt at iticeudiaram wm discovered on Saturday morning. Some person or persons unknown, had deliberately set lire in two places to the premises at the •>ack of Mr Chur tons drapery establishment tn Cashel street, and occupied by Mr Walters' ironmonger. One of the back wiudows had been opened, and the culprit by that means effected un entrance and lighted the place iu two separate positions, fortunately the fire burnt iuself out. The attempt was discovered shortly after buineas was resumed on Saturday morning. WANGANUI. Information has been Ui.l and a warrant issued, against Te Aro Petera, a Maori chief who luLerieied with Mr Thorpes survey at Murimotu. Two constables left here for the latter country on Saturday, to endeavor to execute the warrant. TIMARU. At the R.M. Court to-day Captain Smith, of the Salvation Army, and T. Grahan. a tailor and mob orator on Free Thought, were charged with committing a breach of the peace on the Maraet Reserve on Sunday. Grahan having mounted a wagon used by the other party us a pulpit, was haranguing ihe crowd on “ morality ” when the Army ■ipproached aud a contention arose between two defendants as to the possession of the waggon, culminating in Smith hurling Graham down repeatedly. Evidence was heard on both sides, affording considerable to the dense crowd that thronged the court, l’he Bench inflicted a fine of LI and costs on each defendant.