TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1246, 6 May 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

* —■ — 1 [m PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Crown Lands Sale. Auckland, To-day. The **!• of Crown lands yesterday realised Li,656. Scarcity .of Game. Sportsmen complain of the great scar* dty of birds this season. I Passengers for Home. The'Rev T. Spurgeon and Bishop Luck leave by the Botomahana for Sydney en . rmiie for Borope to-day. The Tabernacle, i Mr Spurgeon in wishing farewell to his ■ ’ congregation last night said the new ' Tabernacle would cost L 128,000, of which ways and means had been found or were t expected for meeting all but L 1,600 (?). Local Government. Wanganui, To-day. The County Council to-day resolved on the casting vote of the Chairman, to bobV . 'send the Counties Act. An amendment * - to change the Road Boards into the County was lost by a casting vote. | v . As Insurance Fraud. u 3 . New Plymouth , To-day. yy , At the Supreme Court} John Burton, of £ > HaweM, was brought uf> and charged with* making a false' declaration with a vife# ‘to fraud. r The prisoner pleaded fj. — - guilty, snd was sentenced to 18 months * 1 " imprisonment. This concluded the orimi- , , the civil cases 'Will now be * George Grey at Christchurch. ■- Chkistckuxch, To-dar. Sir pfeorgc Grey arrived at Lyttelton this scorning by tfie MsnapourL ' He was ' - US*: on landing by a reception committee ir' „ pf the Wotfelog Men’s political AssociaS' (um. After a short inspection pf the 'harbor works, etc., Sir George came ' ‘Vv ■ through by train, and has taken pp his at Coker’s Hotel. He is looking ■kably good health and spirits. "‘The Lost Steamer, day Mesne Roberts, Paxton and [red intelligence from Newcastle Hindering of the steamer India, . - The lndia left Newcastle on th with a cargo of coal bound to D, and waa consign od to Mr W. prdares. The crew were saved.