SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 102, 30 April 1894, Page 4

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(BY TELEGRAPH. —PRES3 ASSOCIATION.)

Dunedin,.this day. The Dnnedin underwriters presented Mr Cunningham Smith with a massive silver salver, hot-water kettle and stand. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association gave him a casket containing 200 guineas.

Mastbrton, this day

Mr William Taylor, J.P., of Tenui, died in the Hospital yesterday, after the amputation of his leg.

Wellington, this day.

Under instructions from the Minister, the Under-Secrebary for Public Works bait wribten to the Wellington Harbour Board and City Council, inquiring whebher those bodies still persist in their objection to the construction of a railway goods sbed at the Te Aro end of the ciby, and consequent reclamation from the harbour of land required for the same. The letter states that the Government still considers such a Btation is required in order bo- render extension of the railway to To Aro of the fullest use to tho large population ab the Southern end of the city, and the Under-Secretary is instructed to point out that prosecution of this work would afford employment) for a considerable number of men, and lead largely to relieve the congestion afe present existing in the labour market) of the city. Mr Valentine, the Chief Dairy Expert, has left for Auckland. Next week he will deliver addresses at Hamilton and Cambridge. A cabman, named J. M. Wilson, gob six months' hard labour to-day for wife-beating. He had only been married in February, and, according to his wife, had begun ill-using her almost at once, to such an extent that her life was in danger. Isaiah Fake, who assaulted tho Rev. Habens last week, was to-day, bound over to keep the peace for six months. An old man named Henry Devoy, who, according to Inspector Ponder, had passed most of his time in gaol, was committed for trial for stealing a horse at Levin, and he got three months' hard labour for stealing a saddle and bridle from another person.

Both the city and suburban Licensing Committees meet early in June.

Gisbobne, this day. A Chamber of Commerce is being formed here.