TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2305, 3 February 1891, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

[PEK FRESS ASSOCIATION.] XalwiMl Vvwb. Auckland, February 3. Arrived —Wainui from Samoa and Tonga. She reports things quiet on the Islands, The Eait Coant Tr«t<l«. The Northern Steamship Company have a new steel steamer for the Bay of Plenty maize trade, now nearly completed at Glasgow, to be named Hie " Waiotahi." She will be out here in June. Her registered tonnage will be 170, with light draught for the bar harbors on the East Coast. Burglary. "Nelson, February 3. A burglary was committed last night at the store of Lewis Chittenden. A window | was taken out of the building where the thief is supposed to have entered, and the safe cut open v.-ilTi a cold chisel and £22 abstracted. Tim Morn* Stealing- Charge. Chri.stchue.ch," February 3. Alexander McKee, who w»s arrested last week at the request of th« Melbourne police on a charge of horse stealing, and remanded pending the receipt of an extradition warrant, was brought up this morning and discharged, the charge having been withdrawn by cable from the /ictorian police. I'Htal Accident. Timaku, February 3. A girl aged twelve, daughter of J. Hole, brewer, accidentally was run over and trodden on by a trap horse last evening, and died shortly afterwards. Village Settlement. Hon Mr Copley, M.L.C., and Commissioner of Crown Lands of South Australia, visited the Beaconfield Village Settlement this morning, and goes to see two others, at Arowhenua and Orari, this afternoon, | proceeding from thence to Christchurch. .Exhibition Dividend. Dunedin, February 3. The Exhibition balance-sheet shows that a return equal to 15s in the pound has been made to shareholders, A. Deserter. At the City Court William Ramsey, a deserter from H.M.S. Rapid, was sent to gaol pending communication with the; Naval authorities.