THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume I, Issue 2731, 22 October 1887, Page 3

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.

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(United Press Association.) • HoRiTiKA, October 21. a private letter by the last . _ Sab Francisco M ail it is elicited that '•' thg conceaaion' now asked by tire j.\ Midland Railway Company from 'tlie; " t [ sQYernment 13 on the undertaking ■■"..' that if the land grants of the company-- • 'do - noV average 103 per acre,; an'additional gram will be made sufficient '■ 'to raise the receipts to the."required ".. sum, ... •'■. * :< A LIVELY Wf , (Press Association). .' Auckland, October 21, . A lively meeting of the members of the recently disbanded Ponsonby corps wa3 held last night. .The business was to consider' in what manner the funds of the lato corps.should be disbursed, but some rather sultry scenes ' '•■■ wM-tf transacted, aud-at ouo stage the :*'"' 'if|fce - were called in to keep order.. It was resolved that; a lea and coffee " sorvico bo presented, to 'Captain Macdonald, and it was'forther decided that the sum of one halfpenny and a leather medal be awarded-to Private iSearcll, ' - who did not seem;to bo on good terms with others of the company. ;- : -" A STRANGERUMOR, £ if T ■ ,;|Uiiited Press Association.) . •\H . Wellington-, October 22. Sir: '-M' us Vogel was .reported to ■ have left suddenly for Auckland by ' steamerJasJ night, having engaged his passage at th'd Dunedin office. He is, however, still in Wellington. MORE GOLD. . ■ (Press Association.) Auckland, October 21, t teat of 3 cwt of stuff from Mr ngo's property at Wuitoa was com-

.; pleted at Fraser's placo 10-tlnv, and averaged a result of Vh worth of bill- ■' lion per ton. It is reported that two prospectors, Baker and Birch, have cliueuvered a ■• reef at Mata Creek, a few miles north of Grahamstowa, Thames, and have obtained 'ls ounces of loose gold. ■ .Mr Cameron, proprietor of the "• • Mabel mine, in a creek at To Aroba, .liaß entered into arrangements 'with • 'the Bank of New Zealand to forward for liini to Germany, fifteen tons of .-..;. selected ore from that mine, for treat--.•.■■.V uient at Frioberg. ' _%' H;M,S. Britannia, a training ship, went ashore near the foe-re this week, . .-. hutwas floated oil'without injury. .. .•••• Russia proposes to make reprisals if- . .' Germany Increases the corn duties,..' Mr Gladetono is expected to visit Ireland in December, ■'■■,■■ In a fight between British troops and .. Dacoite, iu Burn.ah, Major Kennedy and . Boville were killed, The Daeoit • «ss was forty killed, Messrs Loweii and lorns add to their stock sale for Wednesday nest, a line of ISOtrood owes and lain bs. Mr D. Donald notifies that' persons . desirous of seeiw the Solway bush'-faller at work can do so at any time during next week, at Solway, :•.. ( '.' Persona in search of a first clasn farm with every convenience.are referred to an advertisement m another column'from : Mr Robert Cade of Black Hock Hill. We learn that the Rev. J. and Mrs •• "• Mountain will commence a nine days :' mission in Masterton in connection with ~, the Presbyterian Church, on Sunday, WSQthinst. It is said that the Auckland-members in. Wellington are doing their utmost to Bflduco the southern membfira to support them in a proposal to have the Worth jßland '^ rull ' l{ Railway constructed by . way of Stratford. . :i--• Speaking at the Nottingham conference . ;'.Mr Gladstone said he would support ttjingle votes, freetiade in land, abolition ;|p v entail, and disestablishment of the 'Churches in Scotland and Wales. He '•""intimated that he would iwtopposo the f •-' "details of Mr Chamberlain's scheme, if a • •"■ settlement on that basis proved acceptable v, to Ireland, Sergeant Price received a to'ei»ram ;: '' yesterday (Friday) afternoon from Con\:;j stable Roche, of Eketahuna, to the effect ;■;' that a man named had cut his '■ '. throat, and requesting a doctor to bo . sent up at onne. Dr Milne loft Master- . ton for Eketahuna immediately on tho receipt of tho telegram, fo'o particulars ol the affair are yet to hand. Wo may mention that thora aro two Mr Jagor- '. / horn's livintf in Eketdiuna; one is the tffc well-known property-tax assessor, and the other au.uncle of his, an elderly man, The following voport on tho recent dis- . ■Qovory of natural jjas at Miriirmr flataitai . Peniusula has boen handed by Sir James

Hector to Mr J. C Crawford :—"Thjß gaa , _■,..■■',]»', a.mixturi! of hydro-carbons. The " ';..'. .chief partis yery light enrbufetted hydrownor'march gas (Ofl-2), Jt contains • .-,.• \m than MCCOth part of ita vohiran of wrbotic acid yas (CO-2), and no dr. It .<.■ U a : feeble iliuminant, but will .answer f 1 lor heating or driving & gas enpe very •welll, lfc;is different from most of the' .. gassefl that escape along the East Coast, of ' whichmorbtlian.2oare known between East Cape and Cattle Point. It probably ■ has its origin iu the decomposition of . ; deeply buried awamp matter. (Signed) ;"Jamks .'Heciok."