TO-DAY'S TELESRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2303, 16 December 1889, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELESRAMS

(PBR PRSSB ASSOOIATIOH.; Pre. Mastbbton. December 16 A fire by which Bulck'a ttables, a granary and a quantity of farming maohinery were totally destroyed, occatre i atOp&kiat3 thismornine. Four rice horeeß were saved with difficulty . Insured . for £ 3GO in the New Zauland. Total locs £1200. Rotorua Township. Wellington, December 14 Government have n---t i-ooeivtd cny lut'--matlon of a coming iatr sals over .he sale of Botorua townfh'.p, on the contrary they have every reason to suppose matters are programing smoothly &• Me Lewis under Secretary of the Native Department who fa now on a vlaic to the district h»s secured 48 more signatures ; this leaves only 27 to be obtained and none of thoec ■tending ont hold large inlererests while •very maD of any note h»s signed. Life Insurance. A oase of considerable interest to the Insurance word is before tbo Ooort to day. J. Bertie ant s the Equitable Life Aseurance Society of the United Bt»te3 for £100 damages for fade and fraudulent representation, lhe plaintiff took out a polioy for £600 payable as he understood, and alleges he was assure! by the ogent, at the end of a tontine period of « wanly fears. After paying four premiums he diacovered the policy was payable at death •nd hence the ao ion Arrival of the S.S. Arawa. The Arawa arrived alongside tue wharf at 11 46 a tn. She left London on October 31 with 281 passengers, and Plymouth on November 2, reached Teneriff* oa November 7* Capetown 23rd, Hobart Dec ember 11, landing f 0 passengers and 200 tons oargo at tie lUat named port. She brings 207 paßaeng'H for New Zealand and 1800 xodb of general cargo. Dating her voyage Mr Huxterly a third bv'ood passenger died of heart d'sease. The officers a-e tbe same as on lasc trip with the exception of Mf Gifford (ate of U.S S. Co*) who comes as second and Mr Liddiard (formerly of ship Pleione) as fourth officer. Political. Dtjkbdis, Deoember 16. Mr Thomas Macketze M.H.R. (member for Clutha) received a unanimous vote of confidence from bis constituents at Pomahaba last week. Be leaves for England at tbe endftf the month; Fatal Railway Accident* Jai Urquhart, a carpenter, who has been employed In the rritvray d<-partmeut for the past ten years, vr<ts crcs3lng from the railway sheds at tbe back of the Btrtloc this morning to take tbe south train when the thuntlng engine ran over him and completely dismembered him. Docejßed who lived In Sou h Danedin leaves a widow and four children. ScholarshipsTherj are forty entries for the senior scholarship examination?, and 64 'o: the junior.