TELEGRAPHIC.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11128, 21 January 1899, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[pee united press association.! Auckland, Friday. The Northern Union Steamship Company has placed an order with Mr W. Eeeks, of Sydney, designer and builder of the Aotea, for a vessel similar to the Aoiea oil smaller lines. The Collector of Customs intends to institute prosecutions against some steamers plying on the West Coast for overcrowding during the Christmas and New Year holidays, Eight hundred and eighty applications have now been received for old age pensions. Wanoanui, Friday. The licensee of the Wangaebu Hotel was fined £5 and costs this morning tor selling liquor to a native woman on Sunday, Ist January. The licensee had previously been mulcted in a similar amount for selling liquor to a woman, she being a^ native. Wellington, Friday. The proceedings at the Roman Catholic Synod will begin on Sunday, but will not be open to the Press. The deliberations are intended for the guidance of the clergy, and at the close of the conference will be printed in Latin and distributed throughout the parishes. Later.' With a view to securing the site of the late Eoyal Oak Hotel for a town hall, Councillor Luke is moving that Mr Gilmer should be asked to cancel the lease on consideration he is provided with an equally suitable site. Dunedin, Friday. George Turner, married, aged 50 years, a casual hand on the railway, was run over whilst shunting a waggon, and had his foot cut off. Mr Andrew Thomson, ex-chairman of the Otago Dock Trust, has been appointed manager of the Port Chalmers Freezing Company's works at a salary of .£250 per annum. "" In verc argil l, Friday. The barometer has been very low all this week, but the weather generally is fair. There is no improvement in the oat market locally. Advices from Sydney are to the effect that the market is fully stocked, and that prices are drooping. The best prices obtained here this week have been Is 6d to Is 7d, country stations, sacks extra. The area under rye grass is above the average, and the yield is expected to be good. The market will probably open at Is 9d to 2s 3d.