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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3071, 4 December 1888, Page 2

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v • Th^VacahtJudgeship/ ■.";•■ : . '> Wellington, Tuesday. ' The Ministers deny the. statement that the Soliciter.Qo'iieral has■: been appointed to the 'vacant judgeship, but still refuse to' make known the, name of who lias been appointed. ■; flaying, with Firearms; ".". Bii'bnheiji, Dcceniber 8. A lad named Webbiug3 (aged' 18) while out with two companions yesterday received a gunshot wound which, is not unlikely to prove fatal. One of the party jokingly presented a qun, behoving it to he unloaded, and the shot entered tho groin and passed through the-body. Tho lad lies in a critical state. : . . ' , Fall.in the Price of Oats. • .; ■;'; JDuNEDirf, December 8; At the grain sale to-day" oats were from 2d to 4d lower' than'last week, owing to tho news of the ■ rainfall in Australia, and several prime lots were not sold-at the price, which -''ranged from 8s to 8s lOd. Wheat, on the! other hand ,■ showed a ; small advance; and sold up to 4s 9d. : . : Deathof anEaiTin New Zea ; \:. ianoV -.-.'-■; : - ;

. ;. Oamahv, December 3. :■' Francis William Ogilvie,tenthEarl of ,Beatield; died ot his residence 'at ■Oainnra abont'noon to-day of "heart disease.atthe early age ol 41. years. flis'death has cast quite a gloom over the-place, his Lordship being much respect'ed'torhis liberality *ndgeneral sterling- qualities.. His'eldest .son, James \Ogil vie Grant, Viscount Eeidhaven, aged 1 Vyeara, takes the title, r. •It will be remembered that a comparatively short time ago, the late Earl before he came; into,his title, it waV ruinoiired, was-.'ei'nployed as a bailiff in ■Oatnarn. -''■'. ■ : .-,;: •

A Eace Meeting Postponed. Wellingion, Tuesday./ It is raining heavily,'and thei complimentaryrace'meetiugto MrDomie, Secretary of the Island Bay Racing Club, is postponed until Saturday,

Purchase by a Melbourne Syndi- ■... cate. .'"■■ ■ ■':■.•■.■../,■ AuoKUsDi Tuesday.'■. Tbe Waiwera Hoiel.and janalorum has';' beeif sold^iyMHH yndicat&.y:; / a^^^^^^^l ; Weasefrawnue. this, year to' tl | amount..of £oM'' The first;si ! months had only yielded •;i622,00t He considered the financial positio seriqusandbelieved further retreucl ; inent was possible and necessary.' H would givo a general support'to Mill 1 istei's, but would not give them, strie party allegiance. .■.,',.

•' TooJluchWay. ■ Auckland,.December3." Whilst, the R.M.S. Zealandia \Vas steaming tober berth this morning the flood tide caught her on tho port quarter when the vessel was near the wharf, and although the anchor was let go and every effort made to stop her, the way she had on was sufficient to carry her with a crash into the end of the wharf, her bow cutting into it for a distance-of some 12ft, .Considerable damage was-done to the; various offices on the tea, but no iujury was received by theslenmeri.'

Oollapse of the Melbourne Land Boom, Auckland, December 2. Advices by the Zealandia state that the' land boom in Melbourne has collapsed. One geutleniau writing to a friend in Auckland, says:-" The great land boom has ign'ominiously collapsed, and a general' missing of babies' is. now being witnessed, colossal fortunes which we were told had been made, now only appear on paper and the banks, like sonie voracious monster, are seizing victims in all directions, Of course large sums of money have been made,- but mostly by the original owners, who parted early in the yearfor cash..The speculators pure and simple have only bills to fallback upon, and those the bankers will not accept at any price. Qne of the leaders of the boom has deemed it prudent to forfeit no less than £G2,000 hard cash in deposits sooner than go on with payments, and his case is that of many others."