TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2306, 28 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

United Press Asbocxation.

Dumdik, May 27.

About 20 go to Kimberley to-day,

Tho City Council received the first claim for £l5O for damages in connection with injuneß to buildings by explosion. Christchiihcii, May 27. Peter Cameron, fireman on the b.s. Triumph, was sentenced to six months imprisonment and 17 others of the crew to three months for refusing duty. They had been shipped at Newcastle for New Zealand and England. The vwsul'idestinatke wai altued to return to Aw-

tralia, and the men objected to being discharged in a colonial port, ns they were not members of the Seamen's Union. They also wanted higher wages,

Auoklano, this day. A Maori child was burnt to death in a house at Papakera. The dwelling of a waterman named James Neville, was bumf down at Onehunea last night, It was insured in tho South British for £l5O,

Tho annual report of the Auckland Fibre Company shows that the credit balance of last year has given place to a ddbit balance of £492 owing to lightness of trade in binder twine, and steamers supplanting sailing vessels had reduced the demand for ropes and cordage. It was decided to reduce the production by working short time. Dunedin, this day. The funeral of Mrs Irvine, the second victim of tho blasting accidont took place yesterday, and was largely attended. At the inquest the evidence of Rowan and MoKellar, who were at work in connection with the blast, was first • taken. John Brabezan, in charge of the Government quarries, was also examined. He considered the charge had been too heavy and thought a chain or rope net should have been used. He was satisfied that the seam was the material cause of the stone scattering, but did not think its existence could have been known to those blasting, The only evidenee of want of skill, he observed by examination, was in the priming of the shot.