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

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1793, 3 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEG R APH.-P RESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON-, Wedue&d ly. Tris Customs le venue collected last month tv the colony (with the exception. of Tauianga) amounts to £102,799 12a o<l. The sum collected for the corresponding quarter List year was £113,200 7s 2d. The receipts for the quarter just ended aie below the average required to make up the estimated amount for the year. Jt is expected that the falling off will be pulled up next quarter, which is usually the best quarter of the year, The amount collected at Tauranga averages about £300 yer month. The beer duty for December last amounted to £6478 os 7d. In December last year it was £7070 0s Id. Mr Connolly returned to Wellington last night. An elderly man named Thomas Pickers, fo- a number of years employed by the City Council, committed suicide by hanging himself. He was aged 63, and had been depressed for some time. A man named Robert Mills attempted suicide by throwing himself into the harbour. He was rescued by some young men. DUNJSDIN, Wednesday. There was very bad weather for the Caledonian games, which were largely attended. There was a great deal of rain. The principal events to-day was border wrestling, in which Hudson, Tyson, and Robertson, the Maori, were among the principal co npetitors. Hudson won the Champion belt with a good deal of ease, throwing Robertson, who took second prize. Tyson, who was thrown by Robertson, look third piize. Donald Dinnie won throwing the 521b. ball and tossing the caber. The lighthouse on Waipipa Point was lighted up last night for the first time. Everything v\ar found right. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. It is stated that the hou. E. Richardson will contest the Selwyn seat, vacant by the death of Mr E. J. Lee. The Champion Fours at Lyttelton Regatta was won by Kaiapoi ; Canterbury, 2 ; Union, 3 ; Wellington, 4. The New Zealand Shipping Company's British Queen left Plymouth on December 22, with immigrants for Wellington and Lyttelton. The Rdapchu has arrived in London from the Clyde, and will be despatched for Auckland about January 10th. A man named Jacobs was drowned last night in returning in a boat from the Ellesmere regatta.