TELEGRAPHIC.
[United Pufas Association,]
Wellington, this day. The Agent General has cabled that he has two offers, and expects a third, for the making and laying a cable between Australia and New Zealand along the existing route, The lowest tender is under on 3 hundred and fifty thousand pounds. The intelligence lias been cabled to the Postmaster-General, New South Wales, with an enquiry if he would be prepared to entertain it.
The Cable Co, have received for the carriage of messages from N,Z, to Australia on account of the New ZealandAustralian cable, irrespective of payments for transmission beyond Australia, during 1885, the sum of ten thousand six hundred pounds, and probably an equal amount for the use of the cable from Australia to New Zealand, besides a subsidy of seven thousand five hundred pounds, Diwedin, this day. A laborer named Thos. Dunn fell into the hold of the Wakatipu and injured his spine. There are but slight hopes of his recovery.
Auckland, this day. At the inquest on Dr Huxtable a verdict was returned that deatli was caused by an ovordoseof chloroform administered for the purpose of procuring sleep. A girl aged 10 years, named' Bonier was drowned at Ponsonby while bathing. Timaih), this day. • At Timaru a little boy named Cornelius Ooan, was drowned in Stoney Creek near Waimate yesterday while bathing, At the inquest a verdict of accidental doath was returned,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2215, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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233TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2215, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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