LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 35, Issue 9388, 9 October 1903, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

DcifEblS, October 8. Splendid weather has been the order o the week, and it bids fair to keep up. Owing to the heavy rain a fortnight ago, Dunedin is well supplied with witter, bjtat the Taieri and the surrounliig agricultural districts there has been no r.tin for weeks and carting has in many cases to be done for'Jbonsehold purposes. .. An Invcrcafgili wire Michael | Dalton. license of the Empires-Hotel, was j charged with,, selling liquor jjfjter hou s. The defence was that no' money had passed. Mr M'Oarthy, S.M.. said he w-iuld assume that defendant had made a gift of the whisky but he was unable to find a bovd Jide one, as it was made to indirectly benefit himself by retaining custom. .Defendant was fined £3 acd costs, and bis'lfcense was eudorsed.

. \ Gisbnrne' wire states - that to-day Ih being celebrated as a public holiday in commemoration of Captain Coot'd landing at Poverty Bay. '. ' We'lington news contains the following : Giptniu Colcbeck, commander of the Aiiiutctic relief expedition arrived by the Papanui this morning.. Interviewed by a S;ar reporter he said 'that the Morning: would get away fr.<m Uobart at the end of this ir.o ill), and leave fur "the south in the secou I week of November.. It,is expected sh-j will find the Discovery. 4*» January, al out the same time as last year. There will be no delay then, but if the Discovery isnot extricated she will be abandoned and her crew brought back to Lyttelton. There has never been any other intention than that the expedition should return to New Zealand. The expedition would take eighteen months* supplies and a large .quantity of explosives After its return, the expedition will proceed Home by way of Cape Horn, conducting scientific observations on tiie way. It is expected the Discovery will be freed from ice about the end .of March.

Tl>e : details of tbe Licensing Bill are uofc yet sett'ed, and its introduction will be de* ay -d till the ear'y part'of next week.