TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1616, 22 July 1887, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Arrival of the 'Frisco Mail. Auckland, Jaly 22. The mail Bte&mer Alameda arrives at 2 30 p.m., also the Tul. A Real Grievance. Wellington, July 22 Tbe Harbor Board recently put up to auction the loaaei of the reclamation oloao to the wharf, with frontage on a street to be formed, oni being excellent sites good prices wore olti tried. The ttreet .was shewn on the plan as 66 feet wide, but buyer* now find it is only 40 feet and complaiu that tboir plana fur building are valueless. It was snggeoted that all haaes should bo cancelled and offered ur.der the coiditious, but the Board's Solicitors have i<iven an opinion th»t if the Corporation chcoia to make the street of Us; width thuu CO feet it can ot affect the le>ees exfeu ed by tbe Board. For the pres nfc, therefore, the lesaeos appear to have no redress. Th§ Fattl Boating Accident. In tho Petone drowning case, the jury simply fouad a vordot of drowned by the swamping of the boat. Kobbiog the Dead. Anne Parker, n troraan accused of steal ing a watch from a body cast up on the .harbor, was remanded for modical examination as to her sanity, : "My Lord." Tyler was committed for trial on another oharge— breaking into the store of KoDonald and Co. Illegal Exhumation. S2d ward Morris, Undortukor, proseouted by the Oemetery Trustees for exhuming the body of a Chinaman without permitsion, as it WBB tho firßt case of the kind only a small penalty was aiked for, bit the Magistrate said it was necessary to mark the gravity of theoffenco and inflicted a five of £5 and coo's. Fire. CHKIBTOHrjBOH, July 22. On Wednesday night the house of William MoOuiloch, farmer, Le Bon's Bay, was burned down It vtai insured for £350 m the Liverpool, London, and Globe. Tha causa ia supposed to be acoiiftntal.