NUT ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 49, 17 February 1908, Page 2

NUT ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

\ A ■PROBABLE HOAX. "per l'reso Association. Nelson, Saturday. A messagi; has bwn iiiekeil up in a bottle at iU'tueka beach stating that the ship LenV was wrecked at Nor h Cape on DeceW'oer 2.3 th, ami llial he.p was wanteil. \Tlie message goc» on to say tliat the Lena' left New York on Noy ni ber 24th witli wheat for the Chatham islands, ami Icil lo piece., at nmlnign in about two hours. It was signet ■■,],i-. lioiiinson, chief mate." ihe messa"e is looked upon as a lioax, as a vessel" is not iikclv to take wheat lo the Chathams, and' the voyage was too short. .STANDARD INSURANCE COJU'ANV. Duuedin, Saturday. The balance-sheet ol tiie Standard In- \ suntuce Company show a capital bal- | mice of £19,880. A dividend was passed at the rate of Vk ] >c ' r alllt a Ijoiui, of 2'/;, per cent, recommended. Five thousand' pounds was carried to ' the reserve fund, and .C7iISG forward. SCRU'TL'RE LESSONS IX SCHOOLS. Napier, Saturday. The seliool committee ha* acceded to tiie reiiuest of the local ministers to l>e f allowed to give Scripture lessons once ai week in the State seliool from 0.15 to 9.45 a .in. WELCOME RAIN. Napier, Saturday. The first vain since Christmas set in last wight. It gives promise of con-' tinning. AX HABITUAL DRUNKARD. Dunedin. Saturday Night. "Mr. Widdowson, S.M.. at the Folici Court this morning, decided that Clias Mack was an habitual drunkard witliii (he meaning of the Act, and cominittei him to Pakatoa Inebriates' Home Auckland, for two years. This is tlife second mail to be so dealt with tmde\p the new Act in Dunedin. SUCCESSFUL LAND SALE. Ashburton, Saturday Night. Nearly 700 farmers attended tlic suli division sale of 0514 .'ores of G. A. l M. Buckley's well-known Lagmoov Estate, I in the Oddfellows' Hall to-day. TWO land was offered in twenty-nine blocks, ) and brought from £2 per acre for very; poor country to £32 for heavy richEvery section found a purchaser, bidding average price per acre being £9. land abutting the Asbbnrton river, tlhq( being very brisk, and the total amount realised amounted to £88,013. The prices obtained for tiie three highest sections were £B2, £32, and £2O 10s{ for 315 acres. 350 acres, and 280 acres respectively, the respective purchasers being James Qnigley (Tiuwald), Samuel Holland (Tinwald), and Tiios. Woollev (lteriot, Otago). The same, land wa'. offered to the Government about eighteen months ago at an average of over £2 per acre less than what was obtained to-day, at the cud of a .specially dry season.