LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 23, 18 December 1883, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

[Per United Press Association,] Auckland, Dec. 14. The purchaser of the refrigerating machinery in the Triumph has engaged the chief officer and engineers of the Triumph to assist in getting out the refrigerator. Dunedin, Dec. 15. A telegram from Cromwell states that Mr G. W. Goodger left his house at three o’clock yesterday morning, and has nut been seen since. Search parlies have been organised, but no clue has been obtained. The worst fears are entertained as he was in bad health and despondent. Goodger was for many years a leading hotel-keeper in Cromwell, and served as Mayor.

Two unoccupied dwellings and a small shop were burnt down at Lawrence last night. The fire originated in an unoccupied cottage. The insurances are in the National, Union, standard, Norwich and Victoria offices, but the amounts are not to hand.

It is understood that the Jesuit College near Dunedin is to be discontinued. Christchurch, Dec. 15. The unemployed will interview Rolleston and Mitchelson on .Saturday, Dec. 18. The N.Z. Industrial Exhibition was formally opened this morning. The Mayor and Members of the City Council and principal visitors assembled in the Council Chambers,

and drove to the Exhibition, where they were received by the committee of management, and conducted to a platform in the Art Gallery, the organ playing a march. The building was crowded, and among those on the platform were the Mayor and members of the city and suburban Town Councils ; the Hon. W. Rolleston, Minister of Lands ; the Hon. Mitchelson, Minister of Public Works ; Messrs Vincent Pyke, Fish, Thomson, Wright, O’Callaghan, and Allwright, M.H.R.s; the Hon. Messrs Richardson, Peacock, Brett, and Gresson. Mr Hewland, President of the Industrial Association, delivered an address, requesting the Mayor to open the Exhibition. The Mayor replied and declared the Exhibition open, three cheers being given for the Queen, and the National Anthem being played on the organ. The Mayor and party then made a tour of the Exhibit ion. The covered space for exhibits amounted to 30,000 square feet, and uncovered space for machinery, 25,000 square feet. The Exhibition is an exceedingly good one, all parts of New Zealand being well represented, Port Chalmers, Dec. 15. At the police court the second and third engineers, boiler-maker, and three seamen of the Tongariro were fined for disobeying the commands of the captain, Wellington, Dec, 15. A case of infanticide is reported this morning. A young girl, named Kate Boylan, aged nineteen, engaged as a domestic servant to a gentleman in Wellington, gave birth this morning to a full-grown female child, and subsequently an infant was discovered dead in an outhouse. The body was removed awaiting an inquest, and the mother of the child will be taken to the Hospital this afterno n. An axe stained with blood has been discovered. Dec. 17. A coroner’s jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against Kate Boylan.