TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2966, 2 August 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

DUNEDIN, AugUSt 1,

'•' The Maori Footballers left for- Melbourne by the, Manapouri;,.to-day. Keogb, one bf'the Otago half-backs, goes witlif/tbein, to Melbourne, and probably id England. : ■ '.:'■' ■■ : 'f . Geeymouih, August i. Quite- .alively shock 6i was experienced here at .20 minutes to 11 this evening; The direction was due north and south, and the .duration about 10 seconds. It was felt all over the town, but more sharply in the upper stories of the houses.

The Directors of the Crowu G. 11. Company have received a cable message from their agents in Glasgow, announcing the completion of the sale of the Crown raining property at Earanghape. The negotiations have.been conducted on the basis that the net purchase money to the Company, deducting all commission and brokerage, will amount to £16,000, to be paid for either in cash or shares fully paid up, In any event not less than £2500 sterling shall he paid in cash. The Glasgow Syndicate have also bought the railway plant and water rights for £ISOO. The shareholders of the Champion Mine, Tui Creek have agreed to sell the mine on tbe terms submitted in a recent cable message from London,

A NEW GOLD FIELD. Dunedin, Thursday. The Star's Arrowtown Correspondent says, a new goldfield has been discovered 20 miles up the Valley of tbe Dart River, Tbe Chinese prospectors have cut a track through the bush; and good propects have bvtn, obtained.

' Threatening to shoot Auckland, Thursday. George Adams was found guilty at the Police Court to-day,,pit presenting a loaded revolver at Edward Woodhouse Steward on the" Ioha" during the voyage of the steamer from Auckland to Mercury Bay.; He .was. sentenced to two months hard labor and ordered to find securities for LIOO, and to keep the peace for six months.