SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 25 January 1901, Page 5

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

a (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) I" WELLINGTON, tlvis day. YACHT RAINBOW SOLD. The champion yacht Rainbow will not, return to Auckland, having- been purchased by Mr E. C. Mills, rear-com-modore of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club. THE PREMIER. The Premier is expected to reach Bluff at the end of next week. THE RAILWAY WORKSHOPS. AJI the railway workshop men I throughout the colony are to receive j pay during- the three days the shops are closed. All other railway men now at work will receive three days holidays when they can be spared. LLLLYWHITE OR BLATCH. | Messrs Skerrett and Wylie, solicitors I for LAllywhite, who is in custody on 1 suspicion of beng Blatch, the man I charged with the Colchester murder, | have received letters from the Chief of iPolice at Incoma, Washing-ton (U.S.), I enclosing statements, from reputable citizens identifying- a portrait of the prisoner sent to him as that, of Lillywhite, who they assert was a resident at Incoma from 1883 <to some time in 1894, when he left for New Zealand. DUNEDIN, this day. THE REV. A. GORDON. | Owing- to a chest, complaint the Rev. I A. Gordon, who came out from England a few weeks ag- o to take charge oi the Baptist Church in Hanover-street, has been compelled to resign the pastorate.