LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 964, 1 December 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondent.]

WELLINGTON. This Day. There was a mistake on Saturday m reporting the l-esulfc of the division on the Honorarium. The proposed reduction of 10 per cent, was jarried' instead of being neyatived ; but there appears to have been some blunder m the voting, and the majority who did so vote, are anything but pleased with their success. It is said that an efforts will be made to get the Honorarium restored to its original amount. It is reported on good authority that the Government have received definite information that not more than three millions out of the five million loan can be floated at present, and that the remaining two millions will not be floated for some time, and that the Colony will have to guarantee that after the completion of the five million loan it will not go into the London market again for two years. The Secretary of the Local Industrial Assoc i ition has written to t.iie papers to the effect that a movement is on foot for holding an Intercolonial Exhibition m New Zealand, at which all nations will be invited to compete with their products and manufactures.

AUCKLAND. This Day. A rifle match took place on Saturday be! ween a team of Artillery and a team of H.M.S. Cormorant. The scores were — A r till cry, 401 ; Cormorants, 259. The Artillery fired with Snider carbines ; the Cormorants with Martini-Henry rifles. In the evening the Artillery entertained the Cormorants at a dinner at the Caledonian Hotel.

CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Albert Pinkston, secretary of the Christchurch Chess Club, was charged at the R.M. Court, on Satutday, with indecently assaulting two little girls under 12 years of age. On the application of the Inspector of Police, who said there' were other charges of a similar nature to be brought against the accused, he was remanded. For some time there have been complaints that the auction rooms have be°n subject to much pilfering. A watch was accordingly set, and on Saturday a man was caught stealing blacking from Clifford's mart. The Canterbury Jockey Club, at their half-yearly meeting on Saturday afternoon, passed a rule requiring that trainers should not engage as stable servants without previously referring to their last employer, and obtaining a satisfactory reply m writing. Any trainer infringing the rule will not be allowed to train or run horses where Jockey Club rules are m force. The General Synod of New Zealand sits m Christchurch m April next. The City Guards are going to have a sterling silver hallenge Belt made, to be competed fpr at five distances by members of that company. The recent weather has caused rußt to make its appearance m wheat and other crops m some parts of the Ashburton district. DUNEDIN. This Day. A narrow escape from a serious accident on the railway near Parakaniu, occurred on Saturday, when a special train from Dunedin to Palmerston whs thrown off the line, owing to the engine running iuto a landslip which had covered the rails. Fortunately the train was not going f.iS.. or i., w.iuld have s o->d a chance nf going over the cliff. Considerable delay was caused.