LAST NIGHTS WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 19, 8 December 1883, Page 3

LAST NIGHTS WIRES.

[Per United Press Association.] Napier, Dec 6. Judge Prendergast leaves to-morrow per Wairarapa for Gisborne, to hold a sitting of the Supreme Couat in that district. On Wednesday evening last Mr. Robert Stout, of Dunedin, addressed a large audience, his lecture being on “ True Denaotfracy.” K Dunedin, Dec 7. ■ George Townsend, driver of Castle Street r tram-car, by some unaccountable means fell fever the splashboard yesterday. He he! don fco the reins, but the horses slewed round, rand the hind wheel of the cat passed over his l>ody. The poor fellow died two hours jafterwards at the Hospital. KA2£-year old child named McLaughlin Ks been drowned in the Shag Point Coal ■•mpany’s dam. ■ Auckland, Dec. 7. f The cleaning of the first month’s cn ishing |at Te Aroha has been finished. The gold yield is 1,701 ozs. from 1,000 trucks of quartz. The New Find mine is the richest; 260 trucks from it gave 6930z5. gold. The man killed by a fall of earth on the tramway at Mercury Bay was named Wallace Henderson. He was nepbe wof the Hon. J. Henderson, M.L.C. Christchurch, iDec 7. §£lA petition has been signed by 10k' unemployed, asking the Mayor to request the Minister for Public Works to pu t them again on work at 6s. a day as iu D unedin. They had been recently discharge d from Addington workshops. Wellington, Dec. 7. In the Appeal Court, judgment wafe given in the case ot the Uatioual Bank v. Ward, Timaru, the judgment for the Bank being set aside. The Hon. Mr. Bryce has arrived at Kawhia, and it is expected his detention there will be some weeks, arranging matters iu connection with the Native Department. Mr. Kolleston will leave here shortly to meet Mr. Bryce. The Government have received a telegram from Major Atkinson, stating that he proposed leaving for New Zealand by the next trip of the Hauroto from Sydney, arriving in Wellington on the 23rd. Nelson, Dec. 5. A small vessel, painted green, of about 15 tons, supposed to be the Southern Cross, is ashore on the Nelson side of the French Pass, and is a total wreck. Nothing is known as to the whereabouts of the crew, but the Southern Cross would be owned by Mr. Turner, who would be iu charge with one man. He would have been on his way from the Sounds to Nelson, and may probably have returned home by the boat.