Late Wires.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7204, 30 October 1894, Page 3

Late Wires.

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WaiiLINOTON, This day,

The Hon. Mr M'Keuzio, who luft for south by tho Hinemoa last night, is expected to be away about three weeks. The Times ssiys that Mr 4. E Fitzgerald, Controller arid Auditor-Gonoral, has nentin hia resignation to tho Government. At tho inquest ou Kobert Morton the jury found that d>3cea-od fell into tbo water while euffe ing from an apoplootio fit, nud was accidentally drowned New Flvmoutb , , This d*y.

Tβ Whiti ban beou publioly presented with a haudsjrne Kuiapoi rug, on which was woven " To Te Whiti, Farihaka, from JohuT. Mateoi), O.ntorbury, 1894 " The ohiof, on reotiviag it, said hu appreciated the gift because it was pleisant for him to thiaic that Mr Matron's and To Whiti's short acquaintance, and tho bnmorous reception ho gave the party who vi itod Paiitiaka, should bo reoogi)i<ed ia such a haudeome mauner. He accepted the present in tho spirit iv which it was yiveu. Tho rug waa then put on a youui? ebieftainess's baok, with tho iusciiption outwurd, and she promenadod tho eettleinobt with it on for the inspection of the natives, 1 in ABU, This day.

At a mooting of ruuholdors about forty wero present. Kesolulioue wore passed that fencing and the natural eaomiea wore tho only successful muthoda of dealing with the rabbits, and that the Govi rnment be aaked what a?sintaiico thoy will givo to private effjrls iv fencing. An o. deavor will bo mado to iuterviow tho Minister for Lands ou his way south. The mover of tho first resolution, Mr H. R Parker, declared that the present system of " rubbitiutf " Las tho effect of preserving the rabbits, it being on a large ecdlo precise y what the gamekeeper at H.me does to pruearvo the rabbits. «he annual A. and P. fchow opens today Tho w< ather is duil Wks'jpoet, This day. Mr James Hawthorne, t.ha well-known cotrmertiial trav> lier of WoUiogtou, when (stepping ashore from tho s.s. Grafton tn arrival from Groymoiith last eveniug, was atiicken with a fU a> up ijjlexy, ami died in ihe h'.epitiil at i 1.30 i> m. ABnBUEToN, This d»y. Tho entries for tiit- Aslibut-tm Show nurober 88i, an iucraase over last year of 33, mostly in dairy oawla aud dairy produco,

caused by the extension of the dairy industry. Nhiisot, This d ■«.•/. Mr CaUoM, chief piatm^'t" , , has offered himeelf for eleotiou to the B >*r<i <>f A ppeal, at the uaatiitnou.s rr quest of the Ntlson post and telegraph etaff. WKLLiNaTON, This day In the Appeal Ooun the oaoof Mciianzie v. Hogg id being argued. This is an appeal from Mr Justice Williams' deaieion in tho Clatha lican»ing o :so. Tho question involved is whether Section 14 of the Alcoholic Liquors 3 alo Control Bill. 1893, applies to wholesale liceasas and prevents the iseue of any new wholosale licenses, exoept upon an increase of population in a-.y district as mentioned iv tho PQ-stiTi. The poll at Olutha was against the granting of any publicans' licenses, a>_d therofoe an application was made to Mr Hawkins, t3. M., as Uhairman of the Committee, for three wholesale licenses in the district lliere had previously been no wholesale licenses ia tho district. He grautid the application, audproceediogsto obtaina writof certiorari to quash the licenses, and Mr Justice Williams granted tho writ, holding that Saotion 14 applies. Invebcabgilli, This day. Joseph Fall, who eueUined a oompound fracture of the skull through being knocked down the hold of the steamer Taipi, died in the hospital to-day.