NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 59, 4 July 1896, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GEXEKAL ITEMS. \YJuly An English syndicate, through then* colonial njr< »« Motive, is willing to construct electric tramways in the city and pay the sum of £IO,OOO for the privilege, providing they be allowed to run them for 21 years. Auckland, July 8. A shop and kauri gum store at Wainiamnku. occupied bv Mr and Mrs M'Pone'd. \ >1 v 1 I \n I' building was m- sired for £2-A) in th" South British and tie. ~ovh m :i >'■> and gum for tM-'ai m the Ne>\ Zealand. The Li" o.tr ii uro, ounts to i'UOO. Mr M Donald su-p t me, n diarism. 1. ..S: 1 n mi i f h-, i.. >1 b store, uninsured, was burned down, entailing a !os- of tIOOO. The director- of th • N Zealand Itw.nn-■ Coitpi'.iy h>\c deeided to declare jin im* rim dividend at the rate of 12§ per cent, per annum. The Waiteiuata Council passed a resolution that the Bill conferring county franchise on licensed gumdiggers was unrtet ry and unjust. Ti iAru*, July It has been reported to the policethat trie remains of an elderly man were found in a disused hut at the back of Ehvoi'thy's run, 22 miles from here. A shepherd, who found them, estimates that they have lain there three or four months. They will be brought down for an i:i'[ne-a. [>rNKi>ir.\ July :■}. i the Moniington Tramwnv t ompanv report that the hthn i i ll f>r distribution, inchiding tkiO los 10d brought forward, is i'l.lbs Gd. A dividend of 7 per ce it ol th pi lup capital is proposed, leaving £i~o 16s Gd to be carried forward. A strong so ith-west gale with fierce S'piall- pr vah d throughout the day, and the w-ath-.r is -.till unsettled. As a re-ult of th • rein in the South the railway line was flooded some distance north of Gore, and the passengers had to be transferred a distance of threequarters of a mile. No damage is reported elsewhere.