TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XXV, Issue 2954, 8 September 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Renter's Agency.)

WASHINGTON. i . '." September 5. ; President Garfield having sufficiently recovered to be removed, has been conveyed to Long Branob, und arrived there to-day.

(Specials per s.s. Albion.),

'_■.._■■ London, August 31. ; ln.-tne Sheffield market corn rose lOd within the past fortnight. ' j" ; A great fire occuned at the docks at Paris, when wine and sugar to the value of £240.000 was destroyed. * ) It has been ascertained that the effect of the recent heavy rains on the wheat harvest has been most disastrous. i

, Capetown telegrams state that while th!e Ir*nsvaal Convention was being signed the people burned the British flag in front of the Government House. Sir H. Eobinson, the Governor, addressed the people at great length advising them to be law-abiding, -. :

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. September 7. The Drill Shed was crowded tbi* eyeaing, the occisioQ being a, display of gun-drill by the Wellington Naval Brigade/ and amongst Ihosa present were a large number .of members of both Houses of Parliament. At the conclusion of the drill Colonel Pearee and Major Pitt, who inspected the Company, complimented the men oh their efficiency. His Excellency the Governor and suite leave by the Hinemoa for Auckland tomorrow, where they embark' on board the H.M.B. Emerald for the Fji. His Honor the Chief Justice, Sir James Prendergast, will be sworn in as Acting Governor. '

DUNEDIN.

■. • September 7. Peter Adamson, a farmer at Taieri, need 30, was killed by the wheels of his dray passing over him. Hi leaves a widow and three children.

At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commence to-day, resolutions were carried deprecating the handing over of the eemplelmg of main lines of railway to publio companies or private speculators, urging the Government to make provision for the prosecution of the Otago Central lme, and urging immediate steps re steam, communication with .England. ,; /'; :

CHEISTCHTJRCH.

Sept«mb»r 7". Th« Temperance Hole! experiment faai been so succoisfu), that though only opened a few months it is deemed necessarj to eniarge it, and 50 roomi ara to be added to meet the incresßed demand for accommodstioa. It will bo one of the fineit buildingg in the town.

AUCKLAND.

September 7. H.M.S Emerald has arrived from Sydney. She awaits Sir Arthur Gordon's orders to take him to Fiji. '-../. ''

Mr Hewatts was presented with a silver tea and coffee service by the citizens on his leaving for ChristchuJoh to become manager »f the Ohrlstchurch Branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

A cablegram received annoudces the death of Archbishop Steins at Sydney this morning.