TELEGRAPHIC.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22206, 27 February 1900, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From our own Correspondent.) PREMIER’S MOVEMENT. Wellington. Yesterday. The Premier and Minis ter of Railways 'eft by the Rinemoa this afternoon for Auckland. * STAMP PRINTING. Wellington, Yesterday. The Government printing office lias obtained from New Yo lc a new postage stamp printing machine, which is capable of turning out 5,000 sheets of stamps of 24.0 each per day’s work, and if required can print doublo the number under pressure. SUDDEN DEATH.; Tatjranga, Yesterday, Mr John Henderson, postmaster at Maketu, died suddenly on Saturday evening at the telegraph instrument. He had boon ailing with lung trouble for some years. Deceased was only thii’ty-soven years old, he had been twenty years in the service of the Postal Department. Ho leaves a wife and two children. SUPREME COURT. Auckland. Feb 26. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened at eleven o’clock this morning. ” WAIHI RAILWAY Auckland, Last night. Tho Hon J. G. Ward, who will arrive in Auckland by the Hinemoa tomorrow, will on Friday turn the fir- t sod of the Paeroa Waihi railway. Arrangements for this important event aro being made by the Ohioemuri County Council, who have been in communication with Mr JaclisoiPalmer, M.H.R for tho distric , on tho subject.