TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 233, 29 January 1897, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[ I>Y TkI.KORU'II. j (I'll- I'riss Asmii-iiitii'll.) Wki.hmiton, This day. Tho importers of Wellington consider they art' paying for facilities i(i\en to shipping here and that either they .should got a diO'ereiitial rate or tho shipping should pay the harbor mi provemont rate. At the ne\t meeting of the Harbor Board, Mr (Sale, who hos just, resigned tho chair, intends to test tho question by moving a .series of resolutions. Howlers are occupied this morning with North v. aside ; and the finals of the champion pairs and fours will not come otV till the afternoon. The match North Island v. South Island, was won by the former by l'2;i to 1(11. \\ uum n i.k, Thi-i duv. Mr \Y. <i. Crawford, town clerk, got news yesterday of the ilealh of his second son William in Western Australia, by a log.; cm-him.* him to death. Al < hI.VMt, Thl'tf dllV. The ! ohd.H in ccli bru! ion of the am.1.1 i nitv ot the pro\iUie i-. -,|miied thfoi.jdi htaw r.illi. Tin- r> -.'.tltd 1-. still proceeding, hut the Takapuna Joi kt \ ( illb laics had to be JKe.ljiolli-d until tn i.uitinw, \\ fdtn--rt!itv itnd Saturday ; also the W.it>-r t w ir-ooii.-. Cntil-is 111 ki u, 1 hi- day. At it nii-eliiig ia»t niL'ht ".f tin' eon filVliti- o[ the lor.ll hodl- to It v the statutory half holiday, only the City Council men pii--«n[t-d It w.t- r»solved to 11V Thili'v.im lilt fm.it bodies to ->«■ «i. 1 -ti ! t -• ,i- ill ■ VutUlg tKJWer of the C.t) I y iUUiI to rnuoa to pvpoftdenitc*.