LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 15 December 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

♦ [united press association.] Dunedin, 14fch December. Wild dogs are stated t3 be getting numerous in some parts inland, and 150 have been killed on one station during last year. The Otago Bine Association's annual meet ing began to-day. Fifty-four men competed in the first match, which was won by Volun-. t«*er Willocks, of Clutha. The second mateh < wa s won by Sub- Lieutenant Pastier, of Green Island, with- 85 out of » posßiblo 105. He was second in the first match. Me a srs. Blackett and Wilson proceed by the Stella to select a site for the lighthouse at W»ipapopa Point, the sceno of the Tararua wreck. A woman named Catherine Thompson suddenly fell dead in a hou*e in Staffordstreet this evening . She had been addicted to drink. This Dat. The Government have accepted the Westport Coil Company's tender for the supply of 30,000 tons of coal for railvray purposes during 1882. Archibald Watson, residing at Woodhaugh, was killed last night by a tree, which he was feeling, falling on him. Auckland, 14th December. William Gabb, farmer, who has been suffering from blood poisoning, caused by pricking his hand with a knife used in soraping sheep foot-rot, had to have his arm amputated at the hospital. The advance section of the Christian Settlement Party was entertained at a soiree by the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. F. L. Larkins presided, and a number of the local clergy' were present. The mail steamtr brought a quantity of quail for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, and two boxes of silk cocoons for the Colonial Secretary, from Japan. This Dat. Two rowers, Carter and Floyd, have arrived from Sydney— the latter well known at Wellington — to compete at the Mercury Bay Eeg-atta. Messenger is inclined to come, especially if a ma'ch were arranged with Hearn, so also would Pearce if snffioient inducement were offered. TitfARU, 14th December. The Supreme Court has been occupied all day in the arson case against Lewis and Abraham Moses. At 10 30 to-night, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Napier, 14th December.- 5 At the Supreme Court, Eendle, fcr Post. Office robberies, was acquitted on one charge ' and sentenced to Bix yeara oh another. Other charges will be heard. Chkistchurch, This Dat. Another new borough has been called into existence— that of St. Albane, which includes the populous suburbs to the north of the city, containing pome 4000 or 5000 psople. There ara already 742 ratepayers on tko roll. Yesterday the Hon. J. T. .Peacock, M.L.C., was elected Mayor without ODposition. The Fire Brigade intend to celebrate 16 th December, anniversary day, with their usual display of fireworks and a procession, in which a line of twelve tramcars will take part. The fireworks have been specially made by the firm who supply the Crystal Palace. The fallow deer recently imported by the Acclimatisation Society are to be liberated on the Calverden Run, Amuri district The weather continues most unseasonably dry. Patea, This Dat. The six-roomed cottage of Mr. Lawrence Salmon, builder, Kakaramea, was accidentally burned down last evening. The house was insured for in the Union, and j£so in the National, and the furniture for .£SO in the National. Nothing was saved.