LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 20, 23 July 1903, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press association.! STRATFORD, This Day. At a well-attended public meeting here last night it was decided to hold an industrial exhibition in Stratford. A committee was set up to obtain a guarantee. The local poultry show opens to-mor-row. There is a largt number oi entries, and a good attendance is predicted. NAPIER, This Day. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, London, has cabled as follows to Messrs. Nelson Bros. : — "Frozen beef declined £d for hinds and fores. Quotations: Canterbury mutton, 3|d per lb; Napier, Wellington, and North Island, 3fd; lamb, first quality, s|d, second, sd; beef, hind-quarters 4id, fores, 2|d." DUNEDIN, This Day. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Joe Ho-w, a Chinaman, was charged with selling a pak-a-poo lottery ticket. Mr. Carew, S.M., following the Chief Justice's dictum, dismissed the information, on the ground that the game is not a lottery.

The guinea pig inoculated on Tuesday" evening at the Chief Veterinary's Department with bacilli taken from the blood of the cattle at Pukekohe died this morning. This goes to absolutely prove Mr. Gilruth's opinion that the cattle wer« anthrax-affected. * The illness of the stewardess on the Talune, which caused some little trouble and alarm at Lyttelton yesterday, turns out not to be. of a serisua or infectious, character. The symptoms were suspicious at the .time, and the Health authorities felt justified in exercising caution, in view of the outbreak of smallpox in Tasmania. The smaller trading vessels have been considerably interfered with by the bad weatJher experienced lately. The Manaroa, which! yesterday ran into Picton for shelter, left there at half-past 6 this morning, but has not yet reached this port. The Opawa made an attempt to cross to Blenheim last night, but was forced to return, and has remained at the wharf all day. The Pania has also been unable to get out to the fishingstations, and the Jane Douglass, which left this morning for the West Coast-, ha 4to return this afternoon. The Mana got clear away and has reached Patea. The W-averley left Nelson yesterday afternoon, and the Tasman left Mqtueka in the evening, both for Wellington, but they have not yeb put in an appearance. Mr. Duthie can not longer claim to have been the only member of the Chamber of Commerce who has found it necessary to emphasise his arguments on the preferential trade question by the use of "a big, big D." At last night's meeting, a prominent member, when some one asked what- Free Trade had done for England, said with much emphasis : ">Ri_ined it — or d nearly ruined it." Messrs. George and George, of Cubastreet, received a surprise on enterirg their premises this moiiiing. The ground floor was found to be under water to the depth of some twelve inches. It was found on examination that the waterpipe -on the' first floor, in the dressmaking department, had sprung a leak, and the water hat' poured dovrn, saturating a large amount of silks, blankets, and other goods. The morning was occupied in baling out the promises and clearing away Jhe damaged jeoodv. '

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