TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 28 January 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) This Day. Tawhiao Reception Committee. Auckland.—The reception committee have provided for the further entertainment of Tawhiao and natives from Saturday till Tuesday. The Maoris say they will spend £2,000 in entertaining Europeans at Kopua. Auckland Team to play Englishmen. Auckland.—The following Auckland team have been selected to play the English cricketers : Messrs Lynch, Robinson, Mumford, Yates, Arneil, Cestro, Cox, P. Dufonr, Bindon, Whiteside, Farrar (Tauranga), O’Brien, Buckland, Bowden (Otahuhn), Donovan (Onehunga), King, Cameron, Thompson, Gardner, Lankham jun., Dewes, Isaac. Emergencies : Messrs Jervis Walker, and Beale. Woollen Industry. Christchurch.—The balance-sheet of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory shows a profit for th& year of £5,014. A dividend of 6 per cent, was declared for the half-year, making 10 per cent, in all. £1,235 was carried forward. All the new shares issued when the company was enlarged have been taken up, and £25,000 spent on new buildings and plant, the total outlay on which will reach £BO,OOO. The clothing factory is almost ready for work, and will employ 300 hands. The report and balance sheet were adopted unanimously. TENDERS FOR RAILWAY. Wellington.—Fourteen tenders were received for the West Oxford contract, Canterbury Interior main line (Oxford - Malvern section). The following alternative lenders are accepted :J. Coates, Palmerston South, £13,656; Thomas & Hill, Amberley, £13,803 18s 2d; Davidson & Conyers, Dunedin, £14,100 3s TOd; D. M’Grath, Rangiora, £16,133 11s. Among the other tenders w r as that of Mace & Bassett, Patea, £16,237. The highest tender was that of Rutherford & Williams, £22,812. How to Burn a Town. Dunedin.—Further particulars of the fire at Queenstown show that Waldeman, who is in custody here, had a cottage away from his store. The police have entered the cottage (which was closed up) by forcing a window. In one room they found a candle alight amid a heap of matches and Wood —in fact several candles were stuck together to last a given time. The floor was saturated with kerosine, and the candle had nearly burnt down to the point of a general flare-up when the police discovered the plot. The light, too, was carefully shaded from outside view, and the “ artist” had worked out his plan with cunning completeness.