TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2238, 8 March 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

United Press Association, Auckland, this day. The prospectors have nearly all returned from the King Country, and give doleful accounts. There is no indication of gold in Tuhua country, which is reported all pumice. Some have gone to the Rangitoto, but are not sanguine. A house, tho property of Mr Suffert, Wakefield-street, was burnt, the occupier, Wm. Page, being badly injured by tho fire. Nelson, this day.' A sawmill, flour mill, hop kiln, and barn, containing a thrashing machine, the property of Mr Drummond at Upper Moutere, have been totally destroved by fire, which .originated in the hop kiln. There is no insurance. The loss is estimated at £2OOO.

Wellington, this day. A man named Chas. Thompson, a norwegian, has been arrested on a charge of being concerned in the death of Schutlze a sailor whose body was found in the Harbor on Saturday. Deceased and Thompson were in a brothel about a week ago, and the latter threatened to kill Schutlze, They left the house. together, and Thompson returned an hour, afterwards in an agitated'condition, and wnon asked where his mate was lie said'"lt was no matter he wbb no good" A man named Hugh Douglas,,a porter, fell off the Queen's Wharf on Saturday night and was drowned.