LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 24, Issue 1259, 11 January 1894, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

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BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. j Bishop Moran is in a very critical state of health. ' v ~ ~ . til , ■ • Soirie of the •'Heavy crops in the'Taieri district.have been laid by-heavy rains..• Instructions have been received by varions post office authorities to the effect that the currency of postal notes is now unlimited; The "order dating from. January 1, 1894, under the Post Office Act/Amendment Act.,

./The; term of thej-presenti Railway Commissioners' appointment expires on the 27th inst.

:, It is estimated that the purchases of butter and cheese in Taranaki, during the current seasons', for the British market will total £20,000. > ■ . : ' . The Wellington Post has authority fp'r stating that Mr G. Jellicoe has been instructed to lodge a petition against the return,of Mr H. T>\ Bell for one of the Wellington City seats on the ground that he made improper payments in connection with his election contest. Rumour says that steps are also to be taken to try and unseat Mr J. Duthie and Dr. Nevraan. The Chuff Justice and Justice Richmond ara the judees beforb whom the petition against Sir Robert Stout's return is to be inquired into. The date of hearing has not been fixed, but it will probably be early in February. • ' A sensational-incident occurred at Fillis' Circus iij.. Christchurch, yesterday. Cox, the animal ; trainer,} was .putting a Bengal tigress through her.usual'pfcrfonnances. He placed his head in the animal's mouth, when she suddenly closed her jaw inflicting painful wounds on the trainers face. Cox retained great presence of mind, and released iiiniselL without further injury. The incident caused cosiderable consternation among th<s audience. Despite the injuries he received, in the afternoon he went through another performance with the tigress. At the circus in the evening, a lady was to have entered the lion's cage, but the police prevented her doing ao. The Times' Wellington correspondent learns from private sources that movement is on foot among the leaders of the Labour Party of New South Wales, both within and without Parliament, to invite the Hon. W P. Reeves to the colony to deliver a series of address to constituencies in the interests of Democracy.