Yesterday’s Telegrams

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7063, 8 February 1893, Page 1

Yesterday’s Telegrams

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND Fbb 7. The banks decided to-day to reduce tbs rate of interest on bank deposits for twelve months from 5 to 4J per cent. The annual sheep fair of B Oakland end Pons was held to-day at Bemuera. The sheep were in fine condition and good prices were obtained. Two-tooth wethers reached as much as S2s. WELLINGTON, Fbb. 7. The number of patiente in the Hospital is 141, and it was stated at a meeting of the trustees this morning, that patients were now sleeping in the corridors. The trustees decided to obtain a legal opinion whether they had power to divert the sum of £SOO (out of £6OOO set apart for a new wing) for the erection of a building close to the present premises for the reception of typhoid fever canes.

The Inspector of Mines has forwarded to the Minister a fall report upon the auriferous reefs at Wilson’s Hirer, Preservation Inlet, and on the works in progress there. He says:—“The river bed is all being worked from about a mile and a half below the present road line up to where the rref crosses the river, and some are working above the line of reef ; but it is only in very dry weather that any workings ean be carried, on. All the men state that they make very good wages when they can work, but sometimes they can only work sis days a month; therefore very few have averaged £3 a week since they commenced, and some have made only tucker. With regard to the prospects of the locality developing into a large reefing district, there is nothing done at the present time to show whether anything will be got beyond the prospector's claim. No stone is visible where (gold can be seen in any of the other claims, but there baa besn no work done to test the reef. The lode exposed on the south side of the river is different from that on the north side. The best stone on the south side is near the surface, and one foot on the wall side of the lode, whereas on the north side the rich band of stone is on the hanging wall side, end shonld this bend run for some distance it will yield a large quantity of gold. It is certainly the richest band of stone I have seen in the Middle Island.” The New Zealand Government have cabled -protest against the annexation of Hawaii K>tbe United States of America; ■At the inquest on the body of the woman IKncb, otherwise Friend, otherwise 2>eatb, yesterday afternoon after her con|Hknt under suspicious circumstances, a was returned that death wae due to The jury added a rider, that if bad called in medical assistance of the first ehild the woman’s have been saved. HOKITIKA, Fbb 7. 'Mallay, proprietor of. the Hokitika and Kanieri, was The horse got frightO’Hally endeavoured a jerk he was in front of the carriage over him. Be managed his hot bnt died on