TELEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4096, 28 December 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

(FXB PRE3B ASSOCIATION)WELLINGTON. December 27. To-day was observed as a coneral holiday. The weather was fine, with a southerly wind blowing. Numerous excursions took placp, bat beyond these no amusement was afforded. The Hnn. Mr Ballance, who has been seri- nily ill, i* now recovering. Tbe opening of tho Industrial Eihibltion at Paimerston North yesterday was very suictisful, ab< ut 1500 persons being present. The Matquis and Marchioness of Drogheda wrro p««s-nceri for tho south to-day. j Arrived—Slip, W*imate, Capt. Cantse, 92 days frum L-indun. December 28. The win Margin, reported yesterday as mining, has turned op again. He slated that he had been to Cbrislchorch. George Adams, who yesterday met with an accident by falling over a cliff, disd at eight o'clock this morning. DUNEDIN. December 27. The regatta at Port Chilmers passed off without s-ccdent oi a lorituj nature. Oce of the bo»ts upset in tbe opeu boat ; naiiincric ■, but the crew were picked up. The yacht ua of 16 miles was won by Ripple, with G 1 ilea second, and Leader third. The seoud-class yacht race was won by Winifred. The dingey race was won by Palamonntait). The whaleboat ncd was declared null and void, neither boat finishing, owing to a fouh The Port Chalmers crew won both tho junior fouroared and pair-oared g'g rac*s. A team of I-*verc3rgill cricketers are at present playing a series of club matches here. Playing agiinst Carisbrook yesterday, Carisbrot'k won on tho first innings -C.risbrpck 63 and 202; luvercargill, 51 and 20 for three wickets. Today luvercargill played the Pheeiix Club, the latter winning on the first innings. A team from tho Addingtoo Club, Caristcburcb, played the G'ange. Hie la 1 tar winning—Addingt"" 108 and 6/ for three wickets: Grange 173. December 28. Arrived—Salado,from Mauritius, brmgine 11,132 bags of sugar for Dunedin and 9870 Dags for Lyttelton.

! AUCKLAND. December 27. A womm named Mary Borke waa drowned on Siturday night, at Woodhill, hy falling into a creek. The woman, with a mm named Hamera, w.«a seen by a neighbor pulling up the stream. He states that they were drunk, and that he effered to pull the boat across the stream, bin they refined. The body of the woman was afterwards found in the | stream. Eight men arrested yesterday at the E.derslio racec:u-S'?, were charged this morning at the R.M. C.>urt with playing a nuiub.-r of games with gaming tables. ] A remand was granted nntil to-morrow. A firmer named Wm. Rontley was found dead in his stable at Pukdkohe, at 3 p.m. yesterday.

HOKITIKA. December 27. E. RawlingJ, road overseer on the Cnristchnrch roil, wa3 injured when clearing away a land slip ai Rocky Point. B ;th legs were broken, and he was injured internally. He died whilst being carried to the Kumara hospital.

IJTVERCARGJLL. D. camber 27. A boy of eight years, the son of T. Crawley. ex-Mayor of South Invercargill, was choked yesterday by an indiarubber toy known as a " tqueaker." It slipped ioto his throat, and the small billoon being iiflued by the returning breath from the longa, filled up his windpipe and soST-ictted him.

The mill at Seaward Bush, known as M'K j cz e and R HV, was burnt on Saturday night. Tne mill waa owned by the Dacedin.lron an J Woodware Company, and the insurance, if any, is effected in that city. Tlio Blnff Harbor Board were in close committee all day on applicitions for appointments to the pilot staff, strong opposition on the part of some members being shown to the restric;ion of age to under 40, several men on the stiff, who have nothing against them, being a few years over that age. A member of the Board is a candidate for one of the positions. Captain Tyson, harbormaster, ia not a candidate. He was appointed three years ago at I*4oo, and the B lard bave now reduced the s*lary to L2oo and home. General regret is expressed at his re'iznation, aa he has been a moat successful officer. He returns to England at considerable sacrifice, as he had built & homo at tbe port, and brought out his family only recently. The weather was better to-day, but unseasonably cold.