TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 19 April 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

i ■•.;(PEU .UNITED,: PRESS. ASSOCIATION.) This t)ay/ ■ : Measles in Auckland.' ; Auckland.—Measles are spreading irf! litbOiM:! CK isjslle?ed : ®atr thAdlsease was, introduced- by. one., of , the mail! steamers. . , . ... Licensing. * ' " Wpllin^l^faV^rh'e A pbll in the Karori Bicensing ’Di'skict resulted in favor of an ; inferfeaVe of i licenses.. of all Idescrip r tions! (; ' [ 't v ’ u ;‘‘ V/ Wellington.—The poll for Chris tj--1 church : East resulted > in <A vßto -against , the,, increase oflicenses of all descriptions. ' Forty-seven, .voted out of 672, GRAIN IN DEMAND. " Oliristclilirclri —' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report that "shipments of wheat have . been made] in-Melbourne on so extensive a scale- that oil' the available grain in the market'lia s_ been absorbed. One cargo of 7000. sacks of wheat, already on board a vessel, was : re-sold at 6s 3d .a.Jbusbel, and taken on shore, again. r ; -. WOOD PRICES/ f ; : : Christchurch.—At Messrs'Wilkin's & Co.’s wool ; sale, ; cross-bied fetched per lb; merino - A^d, ; lambs’ wool '9^d, , pieces 7dj locks ' , w .^: :' ' ■ Dunedin. The ttmchkiery" of the '.; j Qgipp'er./ .NAi xii ng r , is now started, and Mr J. 0. ■Dro’wn, ;Ml H : 3|! fifed'the first blas hj, iij thAtu n nel. The- company have expended : nearly.. .£3OOO ]in machinery. &c._ The lode is highly satisfactory' in . a nee. ; Things are also, looking, extremely well kt the Waiporr antimony 1 mine, where ore of excellent quality; is. ; being obtained, with every prospect of payable results. , .... . . i 7 ’ the cattle.trAdb. , j.jWangapui.-^At. the .annual meeting ■ of thA Wahganui ; Graziers Go; to-day, it was decided'to sell the steamer Walla hi by auction, some time m ; May.' The St. Kilda will be put on the Wal- : labi’s itrade. '; , ?: •; A il c* _ ; ■ ’ SEDUCTION AND BIGAMY; ~ ] A SHOCKING CASE. '.Mat’toh.l—-FAP. late schoolmaster’at South- Makirikiri, was charged at Mjfir]thn. : Court, to-day with bigamy. It is alleged ; that he had seduced one"of his pupils,’ a girl of 15, and then married .lifer, hi A first'wife.being still alive, at Auckland. Thei prisoner was remanded for a'lwbfelc. - I