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Temuka Leader, Issue 1790, 15 September 1888, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

The Minuter of Jaitice favourably raoommends the deppatch, by tha Stella, of a proippc ! iug party to Preservation Inlet. A s'x roomed home owned and oooupied by Mrs Ohrk was destroyed by fire at Giabom* on Thuvtday night. The insurance WES £4OO in the South British.

The oity surveyor at Ohriitohuroh has obtained a splendid flow of water at the 'eoond stratum 6in. well, on the South Belt. The water was struck at a depth of 184 ft, and rises to a height of fifteen feet above the lurface of the ground. The ooit of sinking has been only about £6O. The North Inveroargill Counoil, whose late olerk was sentenced at the last sitting of the Supreme Court for embezzlement, have decided to obtain legal advice as to whether the gentlemen formerly aotin* as auditors oannot be made to pay the whole Ot pwt of the defalcations wboih were stated to be about £I3OO. . At the inquest into the recent fire in Hawera the jury found that the place had been maliciously set on fire, and that L. A. Langley, the occupier of the premises, had set the pluce on fire. Lnngley was committed for trial on the coronei's warrant.