LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 65, 15 September 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Chbistchurch, 14th September. Messrs. Mills and Co. have received a telegram from London stating that Robert Chapman, of Rangiora, has been awarded a gold medal for wool at the Crystal Palace Show. The sample exhibited was one merely taken from an ordinary shipment for sale, and not sent Home in any expectation of its being exhibited. During the south-wester whioh prevailed yesterday, three pigeons flew a distance of 150 miles in 1 hour 48 minutes. The "Pirates of Penzanoe" has drawn well again here, and will be taken off on Thursday. Dunedin, 14th September. Two cottages at Green Island were burnt down yesterday. They were insured in the North British for £250. There is a very heavy civil list for this Supreme Court session, including two actions against the Auckland Tram Company, in which .£3OOO damages is claimed. Mr. Oliver telegraphs that the Premier has promised that the work on tho Otago Central line will be continued slowly. Fleming, a well-known bootmaker here, has been left a fortune of £30,000, besides other property. The Rev. Mr. Green, pastor of the Christian Disciples, will probably stand for the northern city electorate. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co. have manufactured 50 tons of sulphuric aoid. and will claim the Government bonus of £500. New Plymouth, 14th September. It may not be generally known, says the Taranaki Herald, that the commercial traveller who was blown up by dynamite at Mudgee, New South Wales, was in New Plymouth about three months ago. Tho object of his visit was to transact business with the Harbour Board in the purchase of dynamito from the firm he represented. Auckland, 14th Septembor. The Auckland boot factories are driving out tho imported goods ; 3500 pairs are made per week. Tho volunteer movement in Auckland is, apparently, declining, as at the parade last night on* company mu3tered one private and one officerExperiments are being made by vaccinating calves from lymph obtained from Belgium, to obtain a constant supply of pure lymph. At the Bay of Islands, arrangements are being made to have all natives in the district vaccinated. At a largely-attended meeting of cricketers, Mr. W. F. BuckJand presiding, it was resolved to form a Provincial Cricketing Association, to have control of interprovincial, intercolonial, international, and club and cup matches. The Hon. Frederick Whitaker was elected president. The Dnnedin Association rule 3 were substantially adopted. A letter has been received from Mr. Conway, on behalf of the English cricketing team, desiring to ascertain terms and arrangements for a visit of the English cricketers to Auckland, but the matter was deferred to the next meeting. A fire occurred on the premises of the New Zealand Timber Company, but it was suppressed by a fire apparatus on the premises ot the company adjoining. It arose through a heated flue. This Day. A large number of Coromandel natives went by train to-day to attend Tawhaio's meeting at Hikurangi. They say they will bring Tawhaio baok with them. The new North Shore Ferry Company has

purchased out the old company. Tho price - is said to be .£9OOO for the steamers and good-will. The prospectus of the Thames Valley Railway Company has been issued, with a capital of and an influential directory. It is proposed to construct a railway from Morrinsville to Lake Rotor ua under the District Railways Act Tho Key. Allan Webb, Baptist minister, has resigned. It is understood that ho goes to Adelaide.