INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 69, 16 March 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[From the Press Agency]. Auckland, March 13. Thomas Newton, a Waterloo hero, aged 77, died in hospital. The question of hanging up the Counties Act is exciting considerable public feeling in Eden County. At the Waste Lands Board meeting today, Mr. Vesey Stuart intimated his acceptance of the Board's terms for purchase of 10,000 acres adjoining the Kati Kati settlement. The Board consented to extend the time for payment to Sept. 1, if required. The returns show that 78,539 acres in Thames County are under the administration of the Board. The first trial of the waterworks was made with 2'ain-water accumulated in Newton reservior, to-day. A jet of water was thrown by the Fire Brigade over a three-storey ware-house in Queen street. New Plymouth, March 13. Richard Chilman, late Collector of Customs, died last night. Wellington, March 13. A round robin has been signed by all the merchants, shippers, and carters, urging upon the Mayor the necessity for dismissing Reeves, the present wharfinger, for incompetence and gross mismanagement. Dunedin, March 13. The half-yearly meeting of the Standard

Insurance Company was held yesterday. The report submitted showed that although the amount paid for losses during the halfyear had been considerable, the business of the Company had largely increased. It was resolved, in order to increase the capital, to allow the dividend available to be carried to capital account. Some discontent was expressed at the system of distributing bonuses to insurers and limiting the dividends to shareholders to 10 per cent, but it was not considered desirable to alter the arrangement for the present. A Chinaman, named Ah Wong, hanged himself in Stafford street last night. This afternoon the City Council decided to alter the conditions for the construction of street tramways, so as to proivde for a double line and to increase the guage to four and a-half feet. The Corporation has been served with a writ for £6000, at the instance of Mr. Pritchard, for damages sustained by him during the recent floods. February 14. The Waverly boarding-house was burned down this morning. It was insured for £200. The origin of the fire is not known. Daniel Barrett, aged 20, was burned to death, in the fire at the Waverly boardinghouse, last night. The railway returns for February show the receipts to have been £10,097. Grahamstown, March 14. Geo. Hallewell, ex-lineman in the Telegraph department, who has been missing for over a fortnight, is reported by a Maori as wandering in the bush, demented. A search party has gone out. James Gordon was committed for trial, to-day, on a charge of rape on a child 11 years of age.