TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 4721, 24 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; (PER PRESS; ASSQOIATION). ": . WELLINGTON, Thursday. -TJbe Pigeon, Poultry, Canary, anH Dog Show was, opened this - afternoon by. the Governor. The number of entries is ©lose upon 400. The poultry and pigeons .were oH a very fine class. ; A bootmaker named McLellan was today committed for trial for having received siolen goods. The evidence proved that the prisoner had enticed two youths in a large warehouse to supply him with uppers which were stolen ; he only : paying a nominal price.' : The lads, for' stealing "the uppers, were sentenced to a month's imprisonment. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The Pioneer and Kohinoor Diamond Companies have combined to send a prospecting party of six to dig for larger crystals at Alford Forest. The party is under the command of Mr Jacobson. The Waste Land Board has deferred issuing more prospecting (mineral) licenses or leases till after receipt of instructions from the Secretary of poldfields. DUNE DIN, Thursday. Angus Ross, book agent, started to walk along the railway line from Stirling to Kaitangala on Tuesday night. He sat down and fell asleep and a train corning along struck him and knocked him off the line. He was found noxt morning insensible, with four ribs broxen. The night was bitterly cold and wet. The accident through a trap backing over an embankment at Pembroke, Lake Wanaka, resulted in no fatality, Mrs Hassing, one of the occupants, had both jaws fractured, her face dreadfully cut, and other severe bruises, and Mr Austin had his lee broken. The other three occupants escaped with little injury. The party were returning from participating in the opening pleasure trip of the new steamer Theodore on Lake Wanaka. Newton, the town clerk of West Harbor, has been committed for trial. The Public Works Department has offered to open a section at" the Otago Central Railway for the unemployed at 288 a week, but this the men consider inadequate. The plainliff in the case Johnston v. Otago Land Board, in which the Supreme Court here decided against his application for a mandamus to issue a license, refused on suspicion of duunmyism, has given notice of appeal. The case will be reheard at Wellington in November. TIMARU, Thursday. The Winchester and Orari Hotels, about 17 and 21 miles respectively from Timaru, were broken into on Tuesday night, and a !arge quantity of liquor, &c, stolen from the bar of each. No arrests have yet been made. A number of the men who, through Mr Turnbull, M.H.R., petitioned Parliament to remove them to the North Island, to-day refused work at six shillings a day offered by the Immigration Officer.