LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 128, 30 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS .

? I UNITED PREBS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch. 291h November.

The firso wool sales of the season were hold to-day. The biddings were spirited, and nearly all the lots were cleared at satisfactory prices. Merino reached Is and orossbred 10^d. At the inquest on the body of the man Thomas, found in the Avon yesterday, an open verdict was returned. Mr. A. M. Ollivier, the well-known cricketer, who broke a blood-ves3el yesterday, is out of danger. This Day. A woman named Bridget Payne was arrested last night for attempting to burn her house down. '1 ho Industrial Afsociation last night passed a resolution condemning a pamphlet issued by tho committee in opposition to Messrs. Jonberfc and Twopenny's p oposed International Exhibition, and also requested tho committee to ueo their best efforts to secure a good display of Now Zealand iroodß. '1 he Working Mou's Club havo decided to purchase a site for the new club buildings, at a cost of £2900. Auckland, 29th November William Patterson has been committed for trial for perjury in the charge of embezzlement preterred by him against J. J. Donovan. At a meeting of tho Harbour Boa d a letter was read from E. F. Menzies, of Napier, as ajont for an English financial firm, offering to lend any sum from J>60,000 for harbour works. At the Wesleyan district meeting a resolution was passed recommonding tli9 Conference to send to Rngland foe a supply of efficient young men to meet tho present d'*mand for ministers. Thomas Petty, of tho Thames contingent, was arrested on a charge of robbing John Power, of the Hauruki Engineers, of J;4 103, part of his military pay, on tho pa3.-age up in tho Kotomahana. Piovious to a search the prisoner denied having the money on him, but the above amount was found in the heel of his boot. Dunedin, 29th November. A large deputation waited on tho Premier tc-day from the Harbour Board, Chamber of Commerce, aud City Council, to urge tho completion of the railway station, the Otago central railway, and other matters. The Premier promised that the Government would take stock and see what money could be prudently borrowed and what works were required, and meet Parliament with a defined scheme. Wanganui, 29th November. A young man named Oswald S. Brodie, a settlor, who was recently at the front (Parihaka) with the Alexandra Cavalry, f-hat himself with a revolver, ia a solicitor's office, this aftornoau. He is badly injured, but it is hoped tho wound will not prove fatal. Privato aff-iirs are supposed to bo the reason for the rash act. New Plymouth, Thi Day. Informations havo been laid and summonses taken out against the two men who were dismissed from the Taranaki Monnted Rifles Corps for appropriating articles when searching the wharos north of Waitara for arms. I.WERCARGILL, THIB DAY. The vital statistics for November for the Tnvercargill district aro as follows : — Births, 42 ; marriages, 7 ; deaths, 23.