TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ (Our Own Corretpondent.) Christcbtjrch, This Day. The Kaiapoi Woollen Factory has de-■olared-trdividend'of 5 per cent, "for the year, and carries forward .£489. | UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION. I - „... -»~» _Gisbobnjb, 27th October. — . There was a singular occurrence tit the election for a Beat in the Municipal Council to-day. There were three candidates, and the number of votes recorded for eaoh wan the same. The Returning Officer had to exercise his vote. Greymouth, 28th October. The export of coal last week was 4712 tons, c Beef tonnnining returns for the past week : ■^-KeejPitfDark; 902oz'bfja'inalgam from 185 tons, with 5230z of gold for the month; Globe, 401oz of amalgam from 190 .tons, with 3210z of gold for the month ; Fiery Cross, 1440z of amalgam from 80 tons; Nil Dosperandum, 2270z of amalgam for the week ;< Venua, 1630z of amalgam for five days. ' "New Plymouth, This Day. In the Sum erne Court, in the civil case* Key. S. Breach v. Victorian Insurance Com;, pany, the, plaintiff sues for the insurance money on the Scotch Kirk, which was burnt down ,in August, 1882, The case ia now going on. ' Auckland, This Day. A Maori is in the' Hospital 'in a critical state, the result of injuries sustained by him while a prisoner in Mount Eden Gaol. He had a quarrel with a fellow-prisoner named Arthur Kirk while stone-breaking, and the latter pushed" the' Maorjkt into the quarry, causing rupture. Kirk ma sentenced by the gaol authorities to seven days' confinement on bread and water for this offence. A house in Sumner-atreet, Ponsonby, owned by Mr. Savory, and ocoupied by Mr. • PorU;: was deatroyea by fire at 2 a.m. today. The adjoining house is damaged. The insurance on the furniture was £100 in the New Zealandomee. Tjieinsuranoeon Savory's bnilding cannot be ascertained, as tUe owner is absent. The house adjoining, owned by Mr. Bout, and occupied, by Mr. Hilditoti, was also destroyed. It was insured for J8175 in the South British. ( ; . CHftISTCHURCH, THIS DAY. haß arisen re tho Senior Cup oricket matches. On Saturday the Addington team to play against tho United turned up in force, -whereas the United men, being under the impression that the match had been declared off for the day on account of the sports, did not appear. The Addington men claim the matbb. W.ESTFOBT, This Day. Anfrived — Manawatu, from Wanganui, and Moa, from Foxton (cattle laden, for Grey mouth), put in here through stress of weather. The Manawatu lost six head, and eight others are shaky ; the Moa's cargo are all Bafe. ___^_^_______