TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 13959, 26 January 1898, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand

[Per Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, Jan. 24.

The escaped convict Knox was recognised at Huntly on Sunday. He said he was fully armed, and would never be taken alive. Constable What got on his track, but Knox escaped in the scrub and is still at large. WELLINGTON, Jan. 25.

The ram and ewe fair of the Wellington A. and P. Association was held to-day. The entries were not nearly as numerous as at last- fair and the attendance of buyers was also smaller. The bidding lacked spirit, a great many of the pens being passed without eliciting a single bid. The sheep offered were principally Lincolns, Leicesters, Romneys and a few Downs. The highest price obtained was 11 guineas for a well grown 4-tooth stud Lincoln bred by Mr Reid of Elderslie. Prices ranged from 14 to 4J guineas, the tale being dull and lacking animation.

The Agent General has intimated that there is to be no issue of the navy list for December or January. It is thought that the authorities at Home are withholding this information so that it shall not be available to the Powers who have during [the last few months shown a disposition to be at enmity with Great Britain. One of the two earthquake recording instruments which the Government has ordered from Home will probably be fitted up at Wellington and the other at Timaru. In a squabble about midnight on the ship Canterbury, a sailor named Barry stabbed another named Collins in the head and shoulder. Both wounds are severe but not dangerous. NAPIER, Jan. 23.

Nelson Bros (Limited) have received the following cablegram from the Colonial Consignment and distributing Company, London :—“ The frozen meat market is inactive and prices are easier. To-day’s quotations are: —Best Canterbury mutton, 3Jd per lb ; Dunedin and Southland, 2Jd to per lb ; Napier and North Island, 2.J per lb.

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 25

It is understood that H.M.S. Mildura and Torch, now in Lyttelton, have received instructions to have their bunkers well supplied with coal and to be ready to proceed to sea at a moment’s notice, in view of the 'threatened trouble on the China station.

DUNEDIN, Jan. 25. A nurse named Dorothy King has been committed for trial on a charge of picking L 22 from the pocket of another woman. The offence is alleged to have been committed in the theatre. The Acclimatisation Society has decided on the following dites for the shooting season :—Red deer, Ist April to end of May; fallow deer, 15th March to end of April; native and imported game, Ist May to 31st July.