LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

+ I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I DtJNKDiN, 29th April. The Dunedin Industrial Exhibition promises to be a great huocqss. The appUoations for Bpace already received exoeed all expectations. Two small insolvencies were filed daring the week. In the case of Mackay v. Prondfoot it was agreed in the Supreme Court that the money in dispute should be paid into the Bank of New Zealand to a joint account, not to be touched by either partner without consent of the other. The amount is about .£20,000. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson &, Co. offered to-day the Hyde Home and Waika Station, with 78,000 acres leasehold, and 1464 acres freehold, and 600 acres leasehold for 21 years, together with 30,000 Bheep, 270 head of cattle, and 24 horsea. The bidding ran up to £21,500, at which figure the property was knocked down to Mr. Thomas Brydone. A boat's crew, comprising four men, have been left in an awkward plight on a small island off the mouth of the Taieri, through the boat drifting away. They signalled by fires to the shore, and a steamer is going from Dunedin to their assistance. They have been on the island since Thursday. iNVEBCAnaiLL, 29th April. A little girl, aged one a half yeara, daughter of Mr. Reid, rabbiter, was run over by the train at Dipton this evening, and killed. THig Dat. The vital statistics for the month are— Births, 33 ; deaths, 9 ; marriages, 10. The body of the child run over by the engine on the northern line last nigh*, waa literally out in two. The police have been despatched to the scene of the wreck of the Tararua. Ashbubton, 29th April. In a case of supplying liquor to drunken men, brought against a publican named Little, the proprietor of the Hind Hope Hotel, the magistrate to-day inflicted a fins of £5, stigmatising the case as one of the most disgraceful instances of "lambingdown" ever brought before him. He hoped it wouli be brought under the notioe of the Licensing Bench. Auckland. 29th April. Frank Quick has bought Matau for i}2oo. A man named Spandon has been brought up from Tauranga, showing signs of paralysis, and insensible. He waa working in the hold of the s.s. Wellington, at Tauranga, when a mail bag was pitched on board from the wharf and struck him on the back of ttte neck, knocking him down. Since then he has recovered consciousness at the hospital, and is in a fair way of recovery. New PLTniotTTH, This Day. Mr. Bawson, 8.M., met with an accident last night. He was manufacturing some hydrogen gas for a lecture, when Borne bulphurio acid spurted into his right eye. The Duke of Manchester arrived here last night. He visits Waitara to-day and leaves by Bteamer for Auckland this afternoon.