TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1808, 27 October 1888, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Telegrams from New Plymouth and Wellington report *n earthquake at 12.45 on Friday morning. Elig.abeth Menzies, boarding - house keeper at Duoedin, died suddenly on Thursday night from heart disease, while batbmg her niece. The Cabinet have decided to give bonuses on stoats and weasels lanced in the colony for distribution on Grown linds—on stoats 2fe, on weasels 10s. A ten-roomed house |n Nelson Street, Auckland, owned by Mr P. otlesson and occupied by Mr McDonald, engineer, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. At a meeting of the regatta committee at Auckland called on Thursday night, only two persons attended. It is fearecl that the anniversary regatta may be allowed to lapse. At the Grown Lands tale at Auckland, on Thursday, sections at Waiku and Titurangi were disposed of. There was no great demand and the total rsalised by the sale was £lOOl lis 10 i.

Upon the Hon. Mr Mitcbelson'a return from Melbourne he will accompany the Premier, and pay a visit to Oenttal Otago in order to inspect the proposed route of the Otago Central Railway. Mr G. G. Victor Bate, an ex-mayor of Hawera, late J.P., and clerk of Hawera Couuty Council, has been sentenced at New Plymouth to one year and eight months imprisonment, with hard labour, for embezz'ement.

Simon Miller, charged at the Resilient Blenheim, yesterday, with obtaining goods under false pretences from Mrs Fisk, at Picton ; also with sticking up a butcher at Mahakipawa and robbing him of £4 13a was remanded to Picton. The Archill Iron Works, Auckland, have completed an iron tower 30ft high for the Couvier Island Lighthouse. It is in three tiers, and its aggregate weight exceeds 80 tens. This is the first work of the kind executed in the colony, and is highly creditable to the locul foundry industry. It has been completed in four months, one month under the contract time, to the entire satisfaction of the Government Inspector of Works.