TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 18 May 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

.. [ PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,] PARLIAMENT '.'Wei.iinqton, this'day. • O'Rorke has been unanimously elected speaker, . -i ■ Parliament opened tins afternobn'jjby commission, The Govornor attends Rib, uerson to-morrow to disoiose his reasonfor oalling the present seasion. Major Campbell is now Bwearing inithe memberß. • . ; , EXHIBITION AWARDS • :

OnmsTOHURCH, May 17, The Exhibition awards silver modals to J. Gear of Wellington for aoup-bronzu medals for coffee and chicory to E. H. Grease of Wellington J, Gear «f Wellington for preserved meats, and certificate of merit to Crease of Wellington for biscuits. -

ANOTHER FIRE AT INVER-

CARGILL,

Inveroaiioill, May 17. At 11.30 to-night a fire broke out in Gallagher's bakery, in Dee-street, Some time elapsed before the Brii;ade arrived on the spot, and the fire having obtainod a aood hold, it feared a large lot o buildings would be destroyed. The night| was'comparatively calm, and by the judicious application•'of' wafer the outbreak'has, Bofaiyjjeen confined to the bafyvy- 'fife wildesf excitement prevailed,' but there jla sgaycply' any "probability now of pe fijje' §xtendin<j. .Gallaglier's bakery adjoins Sloan-'sTJlieatiu The New Zealand Loan and Mercftnt i)e Agency report, under the date of London, May 16th: —Wool sales opened on lGth at the level of last sales. The opening jojitairied 6000.bales, and was,a fairly ong, Coarse orossbrad mni'kot easier, l " '

THE PRISON , this day.-' \ 'deijfjtfttipn (pjfi (tip 'P|fy Pfjupcil waitgd 'on tlje-polonial Sectary jhis mprjjing, askjng'ttyit afpunt 'Cooli be, vestpjl sjt|i flip Pprpoj.'atifln for rp,creation purposes, the fjoqnoi} fp l}ni) a aiiitftble pifa for.tb prigni) 'iij tl)e npjgh borhood of the city, Iff gicjj fpp|ie<} tijat he could not accede to the yeqi}ggt t .#nd that the erection of the prison on Mount Cook would havo to "o'on,

ATTpfJTEQ HIGHWAY ROBBERY,

■ .:,epjsicjjpc!j, May j'J. Mr Nelson, of'fho firm of Nolaon Moato and Go., ■ was" stjjiok' up on the east bolt' at l3alf-pq,9t J.l o'clock last night by three men,' who anragg (jpgn him from a hedge andtyjo'ckea considerably itgtij' in : Uio" scuffle," unci nttenjißts were made to i'i|e himj'but he ujadg !> r vigtjroifs resistance, 'and the noise Ijo jijckedj]} eygfitualjy frigljtened his assajlaiitspf,' TIjo" j}oj.ioa B«n.'cijed the i)eighl)o).'l)obd f.qr sogip Ijoijrs but ill vainr f IUPPP BEATS," ■■■ Dunbdin, this day. James Walls,'a.miner, was found dead in his hut at Adams Flat,

FATAL icCIOEST. pljristchurcli, this day, The Canterbury tialedonian Society has passed ji at medal sliifll be awaked for acts of bravery in savfijg Ijfe witjjin th? colony performed during tj;e ye|i\ " James Atkinson was accii}ent|y tljrown from a buggy p'd (3}ed fronj tfie injuries reoolvfid, '