TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 218, 12 January 1897, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph.)

(I'cr I'lcxs Association.)

Wellington, This day. The City Council has adopted a bye-law prohibiting the use of barbed wire on fences alongside the streets. The pressure of shipping business is •so great at present that men cannot be obtained to keep pace with the work, and work had to be suspended on the Euterpe yesterday for want of hands. Mr Holmes, of the Audit Department, is to be retired on the ground of ill-health. Colonel Coring, of the Defence Department, also retires. The transfer of the Island mail contract from the Edenborough company to the Union company is approved by the Cabinet. The Acclimatisation Society recommend the (ioverninent that" deer shooting be confined to the month of April. 7,000 bales of wool are entered for the next wool sale on Anniversary Day, the largest yet totalled. A man named West bury, a carter, whilst alighting from his vehicle on the Quay slipped and fell tinder the horse's feet. The animal lashed out juul kicked him oil the head. lie was removed to the hospital in a very serious condition. In consequence of the action of amateur cyclists, the Exhibition com luittee have cut them out of future programmes and restricted the entries to cash riders. In view of the large number of prizes awarded to the local cyclists the heha\ouruf the amateurs is regarded as particularly ungrateful.

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