LATEST TELMGRAMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 151, 3 January 1883, Page 2

LATEST TELMGRAMS.

(^PEE PJJESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedldt, This Bay. A lad named Boag,. aged twelve years, was drowned m tlie Shag river while bathing. ' " : W^NGANur, This D3y. A Calif ornian salmon, has been caught m the Makirlkiri sti'eam,. weighing over 14 lbs. A fire broke out this morning jn, a 6-roomed dwelling house belongijig to Mrs Marshall, which has been, unoccupied for. two months, 'ihe. origin is unknown. Insurance£l7s m the London, Liverpool and. ;Globe. December has been the hottest . month; known here f or^ 20 years. Auckland, January 2. , At the Wesleyan picnic at Cambridge a boy napied Kingdom, aged .12, waa, drowned while b&thiug m the Waikato Riyer. ' The current s\yep{ him away. A guna-di.zger, named Frank Martin, dropped dead-ia the Manga whare Hotel; at Kaipara. . . The fireman of the Qity o£ New. York struck thislra^rning, owing to the alleged' gii,vapce of being short handed, 19 men doing duty fbr 24. They came ashore ai^d were arrested, 16 being put m the lockup. The American Consul got additional hands shipped, and the recusants we,re then taken out qt ths : lock-up by

the police and put on board. One re<% rfused*on the groun<f of being tb're^teiied^^ by his officers, and remained m prison. -The steamer was delayed till evening,^ •whtn.she sailed for S*n Francisco, * ' Wellington, Jan. l\ '.. Yesterday- some children were, •playing j)Q „a >vaggQn^pn 2 - the "railway . wharf wh,en a,, boy "eight years,. old, json.of police- Sergeant, Ready, fell off, and the wheels passed over his neck. • Death was instantaneous. ; To-day a lemonade cart was ovei •„■ turned on Lambton Qnay, and the driver . was severely injured,, the wheel passing diagonally across his . body.//" ■ ;■; .:':.:,. " The Acting^Govemor and -Sir JuHus . Yogel left m the Te^nau.fo^LytteUda ; to, attend the opening of th^ddeks. ; At the. inquest on the body, of the , •ladJßeady, killed on Christmas. Pay, • the verdict was that deceased's neck* " was disocated either, by &c fall.or . through deqeased coming into coii- _ ' tact with the truck. '"•' "' ' '\ • "Welmnq.tojt, This day. The Customs returns for the Co- c lonyfor last month were £113^395 ; beer duty £7073-.- For the corres- f : ponding month of 1881, they were : —Customs; £128,8^1 f Beei?, J6598. ' For the 9 months, April to Decen '-'_ ber inclusive, the . customs duties ianxounted to £1119j282 and the beer duty £45,495. . •:' ' The Customs duties", cqllec,ted at. Wellington for the inqnth ended ;, Saturday last amounted td £14,053 18slOd, v "■••.' .-■;;.;*_■•';■ v'u '- -'4:It is understood-^^^ ' Msl' governorship of 't^'"^^^^^^!? s^ is about to be coiiiu3||^ffi Mi? .^as^i Ddnaldson, the . sen^r.-. Girder -rpi- ■/ thfe A^elHrigton Graol. ' Mi! Donald- f son is> senior of allprlstin^ar^ers m r the colony, andS^ : the . promo- ; : tion is made m. Accordance with the new system introdncedvbjr. Captain Hume, under which . a regular *s . niethod of promotion will be .carried • on from the' lowest to the-; highest ... .positions. The appointment J 6^- Mr . Donaldson will thus involve a regular chaip. of promptiou thsoughatt c ; ranks/ v \ LrTTEiiTON', This day. The graving dock was opened to-day. The day was deserved as a holiday. The weather .was favorable,, caltn,but cloudy. La^gej cr.o^dß?wJLtnes[sed -itho, ceremony. r > * Donedb»j. iJTan- 2. Mr John Grlendinning^of Kirkpa- . trick and Glendinnijag,, while out shooting ! at Waikouaiti ;S y : e.s s ter.day, m<^t with a serious^ accide^Jfe. .Hi^ gun burst inflicting injury and freti-;. dering amputation, of the.; leftyarn^/ 'necessary. , '"'"' ./' itaving read the .aceQuntvdfv>the^ work done bvthegchpol childcen of-? Fortrpse m platitiiag flqvvera .and.o otherwise beaufifyißg^the^ graves, of ~ the Tararua victims m the_ cem&terv ' there, a relative of one who is buried 7 , there sebc£s to be devided amongst, the childpen> . The latter ha^edecjr dedtp treat thiias thti nucleus of : a^ fund whish they ask all Sfatje schools m New Zealand to assist . them m / raising for the purpose of erecting a* monument* to t*hose dravrnedin the Ta- __"■' rarua and buried either m Fortrose cemetery or m Tararua.«cre at Q.tara. . The etiildren have forwarded -one^halt ' of the £5 to the Otago Dai!/ rime 3 and %: the other half to tne Southland Newc, '■ which newspapers thfy hive.aske tOTeceive subscriptions-' » ? r ■ ■