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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 19 February 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(PRESS association.) Patea, Monday. The Patea Mail states that an unfounded report has been telegraphed from Wanganui to the southern papers that there will be only a return of seven bushels to the acre, In no case, no matter how much blighted, has a field been seen that will yield less than 15 bushels, and even as high as 45 oushels. • Donedin, Monday. The only change in the betting market is more in favor of Yagabond, who. is now as good a favorite as Nonsense. MR SHEEHAN'S POLITICAL . INTENTIONS, Auckland, February 17. Mr Sheehan, M.H.R., has visited Sir George Grey, at Kawau. Mr Sheehan has definitely decided to stand for tho Napier constituency at the next general election, Wellington, Monday. Tho Hon Major Atkinson will, it is understood, shortly address his constituents, after which he will visit the principal places in the colony and deliver addresses on federation. A charge of fraudulent bankruptcy will be heard hero to-morrow, Messrs Smith and Wilson, wine and spirit merchants, of Wellington, have laid an information against A, Mcßae,. merchant of Christchurch charging him ■ that he did on or about 15th Novem-ber-last and four months within his bankruptcy obtain from them 15 quarter casks of Old Usher's .Scotch Whiskey under the false pretences of carrying on business and dealing in oi'dinary-trade, and has not paid for the same, A second information is also laid that he disposed of the same contrary, to provision of the Fraudalent Debtors Act. NATIVE- OBSTRUCTIONISTS. New Plymouth, Monday. Skeet's party of surveyors who went inland to prospect for a railway route were turned back by the natives, who stole all the provisions sent, to the depot for the survey party. The Government officials refuse to give information,, but it is reported that Mounted and party are all taken prisoners by the natives at Tauarakia, FIRES.| •'''"' Gisborne Monday, . An eight-roomed empty house, lately

vacated; by DKLeggarfc, was wholly destroyed-by, fire',this morning. It, belonged top;''F.#Ward, and was insured for |SOO, in !the Standard. The cause,'.is,conlidered incendiarism. ,j ,■>.: -•■-' ; CnßisfcHuiioH, Monday. Yesterday morning, E; Forbes ship Chandlers' shop, at Ly Melton was burned down, The building was insured for £IOO in" the Australian Mercantile office, and the stock for £IOOO in the New Zealand Company. Yery little was : saved,, 'and .the loss is estimated at XIOO9 over the insurance. It is supposed tho fire: was caused by some tramp ordrunkensailoi'dropping matches in tho.back premises.