TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2669, 9 August 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,).

CHRisTcnoPxn, August 8. It is stated that Mr Allan Scott,, the general manager for the Midland Railway Company, has received a cable Gpessago that the new contract between tho Ciovei'iiment and the company has been settled. The girl drowned in the -Wairmikarivi last Thursday has beon identified as the daughter of Mr Larsen, a settler at View Hill. Dunedin, August 8. The Resident Magistrate decided today that tho City Council, as the central Board of Health, were liable for fees to medical rnon, for reporting cases of infectuous diseases. The man JBenfell, who was injured by of the brick kiln on Saturday, is making good progress towards recovery, Auckland, August 8. A man named. Staines rode into Hamilton yesterday on a sorry-looking horse to witness the Volunteers' parade. Attentioii was called to the condition of the horse, and Staines was charged with cruelty to animals, when the constable recognised in him the man who had been wanted in Auckland for somo time for larceny as a bailee of the sum of £2O from the Aucklnd Timber Company. The accused was brought up at the local Police Court and fined £5 or one month's imprisonment for the first offence, and remanded to Auckland on the other charge. Joseph Clay, William O'Hanion, and John Campbell were arrested today on a charge of attempting rape at Parnell.

During a cab accident in Queen Street on the night of the 26th April last, Mrs Anson, a passenger from Sydney per s.s. Eotomahana, lost £250 worth of jewellery, the mattir being reported to the police the next day. George Chine, said .to have been formerly, a. member of the Armed Constabulary, was arrested to-day on the charge of stealing the jewellery.