TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1477, 1 December 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

fFKOM OVH OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Christchurch, 21. Sir Jul n T T:\ll receive:) an enthusiastic rfeption on his return to Hororata yesterday. A congratulatory address was presented from the residents. Sir John w?» driven in a drag drawn by four white horses. A triumphal arch was erected before the ga'.e of his residence, and the school children sang tha National Anthetn. Dunedin. 28. His Excellency was the. guest of th« Mayor at lunch 'on to-lay, and visited th« Art Sooijty's exhibition iv th« afternoon. IVFRCARGILL. 23. To-day Ins' heen ohserved as a patial holiday, and the Southland H issars, who are nrw up for a wee.lc's training, held a revi. w, and there were raci-s and sports on part of thp racecourse. The attendance was very good. A Gio.lie bill to-night was very successful both in point of the memhers i- resent, and the brilliancy of the scene. Auckland, 28. At the first annual meeting of the N.Z. Iron aid Steel Company Messrs C J. Stone and Thomas Morrin wore i c elected d ice..: tors. The report stated that the working operations will commence early in the year. Th«y had secured as manager Mr Hesketh, formerly manager of the largest iron works in Great Britain, second only to Krupp's in Germany. The Hon. Mr Swanson, the first Attorney-General of the Colony, is dangerously ill.