TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1638, 4 January 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHRISTCfTURCH, Last Night. The Lyttelton graving dock was opened to-day with great edit by His Excellency the Governor, Sir James Prendergast. The ship Huruniii broke the ribbon at 1.13 p.m. Capt. Haselwood was presented with a memorial of the occasion (a gold pencil-case.) After the opening there was a banquet in the N.Z. Company's grain shed, at which there was an enormous crowd. At high tide there was 21 feet of water on the sill of the dock.

WANGANUI, Last Night. _ A Califorian salmon has been caught in the Makirikiri stream, weighing over 14 lbs. December was the hottest month known here for 20 years.

DUNEDIN, Last Night. A lad named Boag, aged 12 years, was drowned in the Shag river whilst bathing. The Loan and Mercantile Company have received the following : — The Marsalla reports that the temperature of hei refrigerating chambers reached 34 degrees on the voyage to Java, and the better part, if not the whole af her cargo has been jettisoned. The actual facts have not reached here in a definite form.

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The applications by local bodies for assistance under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act number close on one hundred, but of these several are without the necessary plans, specifications and estimates of work to be undertaken. The total amount applied for is close on £680,000. The allocation of the vote will not be completed for some weeks. The Customs revenue collected here last month showed a decrease of £1650 for the last quarter. It also showed a falling off from the corresponding quarter of £1600. , ( Mr J. Sawers, manager of the local branch of the Bank of. Australasia, and who has been promoted to an inspector- • | ship in Australia, was entertained at a i banquet last night;.