TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1647, 29 March 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,) EARTHQUAKE, Wellington, May. : The ship Margaret Galbraith sailed for London this morning. A shock of earthquake was felt along the coast of this island from Palmerston to New Plymouth about ton this morning. llawera, May. A sharp shock of earthquake was folt here at 9,37 this morning, direction from east to west,

Auckland, Friday. James Breen, aged 17 years, fell off the Queen's Wharf yesternight, and was drowned. He was waiting for the arrival of a steamer to take delivery of some fish, aid it is supposed lie fell asleep and tumbled over, Tho body was recovered two hours later,

At two o'clock this morning a woman named Gamty whilo drunk fell from an upper storey window of a boarding house in - Albert-sb and fraetured Iter skull and tliigli. She will probably recover.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co. hane purchased the N.Z' Frozen Meat Company's Queen-street premises for ■£21,500. The latter are about to build new premises.

Bleniieim, Saturday. A stormy meeting ot the shareholders of the Picton coal mine was held last night, and adjourned for four weeks to permit the circulation of the report and supplementary balance-sheet to date. Very serious accusations were : made against the' directors and the late secretary.