TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1829, 30 April 1888, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ABBOUIA.TION.) Tifcokowaru Dying. Manaia, April 30. Titokowara, famed as a ohlef In the wars against sottlera years ago, is dying of heart disease. Eb is not expaoted to last more thai a fevr daya. The Flax Industry. Blenheim, April 30 There la great activltv iv the fl»x industry m this dlfl'.rlot. To-day O.iaytor, sheep farmer, starts a mill, employing 20 hands. Pollard, late manager at Birch Hill and Tophouuo statbno, will ahortly etart a mill at the north bank of the Wairan rlvor. D. H.Pattie lately started a mill at Birch Hill . All the old mills arc working night and day. Whoro water fails steam power is put iuto requisition. In Borne oasoa raw material is oarted 15 and 20 miles to mills. Presentation. Ch;>istoiiuroii, April 30. Mr H. A. Watt, manager of the Bank of New Zealand who ib leaving foe England on ocoount of 111-health, has been presented with an address by the Gale* donian Society of which he In the Preßident and with » draft for £360 by the prinolpal business msn of the city. Wort for the Unemployed. In reßpuuße to a toli'gmm from the Mayor, the Premier telegraphed that work for tho anemployed will bo found at High Peaks shortly. FatjJ Accident. Dttnkmn, April 29. Albert Jus' on, who fell over a cliff at Port yoetordny has died from tho lnju Iqj. 1e is aged eight. The unemployed. The Premier wires to Mr Fish that a number of the unemployed will be put on road works at the heads.