LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 458, 29 March 1890, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(By Ei.kctuio Teuegraph); (FROM OUR OWN CORRESCONDUNT). LATEST FROM AUCKLAND. FIRE S. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Deane’s jam factory at Ponsonby has been totally destroyed by fire. The origin is a mystery. Mr Deane was absent at Te Aroha, and Mrs Denpo and family were first aroused by the foreman of the Ponsonby fire brigade. The whole premises are insured in the Norwich Union, and half re-insured in the Phoenix. The residence of Mrs McAlpine, at Tamaki, has been burnt down. It was insured for £250 in the Soath British. SERtOUS ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG LADY. Miss Emma Featherstone, aged sixteen, eldest daughter of Mr Featherstone, Nortli Shore, was crushed between a steamer and n pile of the wharf. She has sustained serious internal Injuries, and her recovery is doubtful. LA GRIPPE IN AUCKLAND. Captain Mead, of the Wannka, also the chief officer of the same vessel, which arrived yesterday from the South, are pronounced by Doctor’s McKellar and Erson, ass suffering from severe attacks of Ua (? ri PpP*

PROpypE MARKET. There is Ijttle change to report in the local produce market : Batter remains at lQd, Gd, aud 5d j eggs have gone up from Is 3d to Is Gd pey dozen wholesale, and are in good demand. Flour market: Bran (Southern), advanced from L 8 15s to L 4 ss. A similar yise in op them sharps ; local .maize increased from 3s to 3s Gd. SHAREMARKET. Bank af New 2jealand, sellers, L 4 7s Ctl; New Zeainpd Insurance, buyers Gss; South British Insurance, sellers, gGs ; National Insurance, ?ejiers 17s Gd ; Union Insurance, buyers 2Sjs 9<l ; jAucklau'l pas Popypany, sellers LlO ; K iqri limber Quip i»auy, buyers 13s Gd, gejlers lps j pand i\|oytgage Company, ‘business dene, l|s, buyers 14?, seljeps 44s G 1 j Aeejc|eiit Insurance Company, .buyers' 3s; Taupi’ri Couj Company' (extended), sellers 235. : MININP SHAUPMARKET. PambiH, sellers 2s lid; Saxon, buyers os Gil j

Imperial, sellers 4s ; Trenton, buyers 2s 3d 5 tellers 2s Gd ; Caledonian, buyers Is 3d; sellers Is (5 1 ; New Moanntairi. business done 5s 10 I and Os ; buy ers 5s 01, sellers Os ; New Albumin, seilers 5s 3d ; Norfolk, business done 2'* 41; bnyers 2s 4d, sellers 2s Gd.; May Queeti, business done Is 10J ; sellers Is lid; Lone Hand, business done, 8s 9J, seliers 9s 5 Try Fluke, buyers 4s 5 1, sellers 4s 8d ; Otanm, business done, L 7 109 (£ share). HEAVY SEA AT NAPIER. NAPIER, Yesttrday. Heavy seas are now breatilng. The waves are rising fourteen feet about the breakwater. Four hays of piles of the wharf ip course of construction have been swept away, together with the donkey engine and pile driver, The breakwater is uninjured; POISONING FROM GINGER ALE. : -/ DUNEDIN, Yesterday. In the case Hitchcock v. Low and Co,, in which tho plaintiff claimed LSO from defendants (who are manufacturers of ginger ale), Mr Carew, R.M., found the plaintiff had suffered from lead poisoning, and gave judgment for L 25 and costs, ...