TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2136, 3 November 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

United Press Association. Dunedin, this day. The Wairarapa comes back to Port Ohalmbers from Auckland for repairs. The Union Company hold one half of the insurance on the vessel, and the balance is distributed over Home and Colonial offices, Later. The Wairarapa ia insured for £51,000, of which £19,000 is in London, and £12,000 in Colonial Offices. The Company's risk is £20,000,

Wellington, this day. Dr Von Haast, the New Zealand Commissioner of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, is now here, and expresses the opinion that the exhibits he already has on hand will compare favorably with those of the other colonies. He leaves for London in January, The Picton Fish Curing Company has received an order from a firm of Wellington merchants for the supply of ten thousand cases of fish next season. The Colonial Secretary has sufficiently recovered to be able to resume his official duties,

The enquiry into the collision between the steamers Jane Douglas and Tui leeently was commenced yesterday afternoon, and after taking a portion of tho evidence adjourned at 1.30 this afternoon, Two prisoners engaged at Mount Cook gaol works managed to effect their escape from the hard labor gang yesterday, and got oil in their prison clothes in the direction ofVogeltown. The convicts were flerbertAUendaleundergoingasentenceoffour years for jewel robbery at Jenness,' and Fred Middleton, under seven years sentence for horse-stealing. They were ultimately recaptured by the chief gaoler, by whom they were found concealed under the floor of a small house. Middleton is a prisoner from flokitika, and is somewhat noted for previous attempts to escape from oustody. The returns of Custom revenue collected in the colony last month are not yet completed, but those to hand give a total of L 100,130. Returns have yet to come from Kaipara, Tauranga, Wairau, and Picton, and these will probably raise the total to whioh is a large reduction on the preceding month (L 125.026) and the corresponding month last year (L 114,241), The sums collected at the our principal ports last month are as follows Auckland, 21,098; Wellington, ' and Christehureh. 10,085; Dunedin, 27,210, Auokland, Lytfcelton, and Dunedin there is a decrease of revenue as compared with the returns for September last, and October 1884, while in Wellington there is a substantial increase. There is a slight falling off at all other ports except at the Thames, Poverty Bay, Napier, Invercargill, and Greymouth.

Tho beer duty collected last month was, with one small return yet to come, £4550,' while for September it ras £4013, and October 1884 £4850. Last month slo9lj was collected at Auckland, £49Q j\t Weilington, £973 at Ohristchurch, and £974 at Dunedin, and at lpst places there is an increase of duty on beer as compared with that collected in September last, but a reduction as compared with October last year.

Wesport, This day, A young man named Robert Wilson was drowned on Friday last in the Little Wanganui Biver near the Kavamea Settlement. He was crossing in a canoe, when it turned towards the surf, and Wilson apparently getting frightened, jumped into the stream and was drowned before those in his company could rescue him. Deceased's father is a boiler-maker at Invercargill,