TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1709, 26 January 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

WESTPORT COAL COMPANY. Dunedin, Wednesday. The profit of the Westport Coal Company for the year was £16,400 7s 2d, exclusive of £6773 9s 6d brought forward. The sum of £6235 141 s2d was absorbed by an interim dividend of 3 percent, in June, and the directors propose appropriating a similar sum now, making the dividend 6 per cent, for the year. They also propose to appropriate £4ooo,for expenditure at the Granity .Creek works and to carry forward £J7O2 7s 2d. ESCAPE OP A PRISONER. Wellington, Jan. 23. One of the prisoners working at Point Halswell, a young man named Boderiok McKenzie, escaped this morning, and is still at large. He was sering a teim of two year’s imprisonment for house-breaking at Napier. A WEALTHY PAUPER. Chr. srcHUBCH, Jan. 23. At the Charitable Aid Board to-day the chairman stated that it had been found that an aged recipient of relief, lately deceased, who had been assisted by the Board for many years had £-100 in her possession at the time of her death,. ' " A SHOCKING OCCURENCE. ■ New Plymouth, January 24. A shocking occurrence is reportedfrom ()mata. A dog attacked a youth named Oliver, and had to be t h >t topiake it release its hold. The youth was most sevorely iaj ured in a danggerous placo. DETERMINED SUICIDE. New Plymouth, January 24. A man named Samuel Julian committed suicide at Koru. The son of the deceased heard a shot fired, and proceeding to an outbuilding found his father lying dead with a doublebarrelled gun between his legs. The gun had evidently been fired with the aid of a piece of string. The deceased had been despondent of late, but no cause can be assigned for the deed The police have gone to make enquires. MANUFACTURE OF CYANIDE IN NEW ZEALAND, BONUS OF .£IOOO OFFERED BY GOVERMENT. Wellington, January 24. It is notified in the Gazette that a bonus of £IOOO will be paid for the erection of a plant and the manufacture in New Zetland of the first 200 tons of crude cyanide of potassium from colonial produce. Tho plant must bo capablo of producing at least 70 tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually. The crude cyanide of potassium so manufactured shall contain at least 75 per cent of cyanozon.