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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3058, 19 November 1888, Page 2

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Excursion loi Teachers or Pupils' 5 Dunedin, Monday. - The Union Company lmve decided to issue special-excusion tickets in favor of Bcliool teachers or pupils visiting the Melbourne Exhibition, • / <:; The British Flag. Auckland,-November 17.The Bichmond, arrived from the Islands, reports the British flag flying on all the islands of the Hervey Group whichshe;'touched,; ;H,M,S. Hyacinth having visited the groiip for that purpose. A Sweet Message. .. Auckland, Monday/ A beo convention and exhibition of apiarists' appliances will be held here shortly, ~ • Mining Returns. . Gheymouth, November 18. . ■ The blockade of the bar is 'broken, The Kornnui and St' Kilda got out, and the Rosamond and Herald; came in. The coal export hist" week: wis 1712 tons. . Reefton mining returns for the past week i-riydcome, 8450z of amalgam from 180 tons.; Globe, 2170z of amalgam from 190 tons; NilDesperandum, 2050z of amalgam" irons 130 tons; Veni's, 185oz of, amalgaln from 65 tons, . . The new Cruisers. Wellington, 'Monday. The Government have received a memo from Major-General Steward, Military Adviser to the Colony giving the_ exaot description of the new jcruisers. Five are ;being, built, three at Elswick and two at Glasgow. They represent a great advance on the Archer type, being larger in every way and fester,.arid they aret 265 feet long and 45 feet broad, with a speed of 19 knots, and carry 190 mon. The aruiament is eight forty-five vapid firing guns, eight three pound ditto, two Nordenfeidts, and four torpedo guns, and they have steol decks two, inches iu thickness. • ' ' THE GREAT WILL CASE. Wellington, Monday, The argument in the' Will taso was continued this luorniug. He submittedAirinis conduct in herexpressed determination to obtain the will iu her favour, was perfectly open and natural to the chiefs, and Mr Carroll, although there was, he admitted, a conflict botween her testimony and Mr Carroll's as to what Benata had said with regard to making a new will. ' Another Fatal Accident.

Napier, Monday. Another .fatal accident is reported from AYairoa. A little girl, a daughter of Mr James Fletcher died this morning from the effects of her clothes having caught fire. This is the second similar fatality within a short period in that district. ' ' Daily Appliances. Wellington, Monday. Mr Gordon, Inspector of Mines, has furnished a report on dairy appliances at the Melbourne Exhibition! Ho says the Cherry butter worker is adopted in Victoria, and recommended by the manager of the model dairy. Mr Gordon also says Mr O'Sullivan, a butter merchant at Lanncestob, 35 years in the' trade, told him the New Zealand butter was inferior to Victorian and Tasmanian, because it is tinted by the white pine uSed for the ends of kegs, and the appearance spoiled, He thinks boiling the wood twenty hours would obviate the difficulty. Mr O'Sullivan says they have the same difficulty with wood for kegs over there, and recommends oak as the best inatorial he is acquainted with, Ho also objects- to use of calico wrappings, The Wellington Mayoralty. • Wellington, Monday, Mr John Dutbie was nominated for the Mayoralty- to day, As yet no ' other candidates have been nominated.