Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3105, 16 January 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Rotorua Lake. Auckland, Wednesday. Facilities for travelling have heeen so far improved that the down trip from the Rotorua Lake district to Auckland now occupies less than thirteen hours.. SIRGEORGE GREY. ; Auckland, Wednesday. Sir G. Gray has not definitely settled when ho will leave for England. ; • THE NEW REGULATIONS. 1 Auckland, Wednesday. The Hobson rifles have disbanded in consequence of the strin ; genoy of the now regulations and other corps are expected to follow suit. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Auckland, Wednesday, The Chamber of Commerce meets to-morrow to consider the question of Railway Commissionership and land settlement. FIRE BRIGADES' DEMONSTRATION. Invebcargill, Wednesday, The Fire Brigade demonstration has been abandoned so far as Invevcargill is oonoerned. The primary reason is no doubt the Government withdrawal of subsidy. The assigned reasons for abandoning tho affair were that it would not be a financial success, that insurance and other companies will not contribute sufficiently, that the public do not interest themselves, and that very few entries were received. Divorce Court.

. Dunedin, January 15. In the Supreme Court, divorce division, Thomas Henry Bix, a compositor, petitioned for a divorce from his wife Mary Elizabeth Rix, John Livingston being the co-res-pondent. Husband and wife had been living apart for some years. A deed of separation having been executed, the wife had gone to Melbourne in the s.s. Te Anau, and it was proved' she and Livingston travelled as man and wife, A decree nisi was granted with costs against the co-respondent.

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i - C'HRisicutißoiij January 15. To-day .a man hamed Joseph Tindall brought his son, 12 years old, to .the polico station and gave him in charge for stealing a watch belonging to Charles Pearoe, a fellow workman, The . boy had confessed to stealing tho watch, which lie hid in the garden, TOO MUCH WATER POWER, CnRiSTOiiuBCH, January 15. The Temperance Hotel Company,' formed 10 years ago to supply the supposed want ofsuoh an institution, met to-day and wound up. Tho hotel, effects, and other assets are lidded over to H, W. Packer, the mortgagee, whp Ijad released the overdraft at tlje ban|j. "V A MALICIOUS ACT, /, ,Gy (siCHiijtcii, Wednesday. . Eden George, a well-known photography on going ,to. business this moriiing found that his studio had been entered during the night and his apparatus: damaged so. as, to be useless. The cameras all liut one were cut, the bottoms of chairs ripped open, the background spoiled) glass negatives smashed, and photos torn up. Tho perpetrators''have supposed to have got in at the back window and wedgeithe frontioor to prevent; it, being opened while they wero;js3Ei(|e, Jlr George. estimates loss'ait'iOTO, v: