Yesterday’s Telegrams.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8130, 14 January 1895, Page 1

Yesterday’s Telegrams.

(By Telegraph.) GREYTOWN N ORTH, January 12. Nuggie, a , daughter of Mr Mason, of Kaiwaiwai, was spending a holiday at Martinborough, and left a letter ■ saying that she had committed suicide, indicating where her body was to be found. Investigation showed that .' she,had tied a rope to a flax bush and round her neck, and then jumped into the Ruamahunga river under the Waihenga Bridge, thereby both drowning and hanging herself . When found this morning she was dead, and showed signs of having struggled furiously and-suffered, terrible agony. No ground for the act is known. WELIInGTON, January 12. Nearly an inch of rain fell in Wellington during the 24 hours ending at 9 o’clock this morning, ; Up to the present the total rainfall for January is nearly ,6 in The S Bostmaster-General considers that the tender of the Indiarubber and Guttar percha Company for laying the. Pacific cable is very reasonable. If the Imperial assists to a certain extent, the wbrk will be carried put, V With regard to the proposal to include New Zealand in the Vancouver mail service. Mr Ward informs the Press; Association that the offer was made to the New Zealand Government by the Huddart Parker Company to run a fast connecting steamer between Fiji and Auckland or Wellington. The matter was considered by the; Government, and it was thought better to have the direct steamers themselves., if possible, to come on and touch at Auckland or Wellington, at the option: of the contractors. The Postmaster-; General of New South: Wales was asked; whether'that colony would be agreeable to allow the steamers to come on to New

Zealand. The Government are in favour of establishing a direct mail service via Vancouver, alternating every fortnight with the San Francisco service. In the negotiations .for Reconnecting service it was contemplated to include Samoa as well as Fiji, this suggestion being made by the New Zealand Government. The whole matter is at present one of negotiation, and nothing whatever has been fixed. The Huddart Parker Company offered to build a special steamer of fast power to connect at Fiji, for a subsidy of £IO,OOO a year. January 13. Mr Barltrop, chief clerk in the Government Insurance Department, has been appointed accountant vice R. Todd, who recently committed suicide. Mr Niven succeeds Mr Barltrop. The Postmaster-General has received a cable message from the PostmasterGeneral of Tasmania to the effect that negotiations for holding .the Postal Conference in Hobart instead of Melbourne have been successful, ■ and that the date fixed is February Ist. Each colony expressed a wish that Mr Ward should attend. A successful trial was made to-day and yesterday with the Wheatstone automatic transmitter, which was recently imported on the suggestion of Mr J. K. Logan, Superintendent of Telegraphs. Two instruments were imported at a cost of about £3OO, and it is intended to place one here and the other in Christchurch. It is claimed that a speed of £OO words a minute can be obtained, and as' Mr. Logan explains it will be of great service in case of a congested state of the wires. The ihstruihents will be found to be of special use where the wires are over-taxed, as the work can be rattled through at the rate of about 20,000 words an hour, and operators will be told off to write from the tape. Another advantage is that the machine can be duplexed, thus doubling the work. CHRISTCHURCH, January 13. Information has been received by cable from London that Miles and Co. (Limited) have presented a petition for the voluntary winding up of the company. It,is said that the cause of the winding up is depreciation in the value of property and securities. The firm held very large estates in all parts of New Zealand, and lost 1 heavily over some of them.