TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3115, 29 January 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

The Empire Hotel Robbery.

Wellington, Tuesday, v A man named Rook: waa arrested for the Empire Hotel robbery, , and remanded, Ho is believed. to;be the same nmn known as Billy Piper, who recently served two yeara for i larceny ffoin the sample room of the same hotel. .The watches - have yet been found, but the- 'police are eadeavoiing to trace them. • :

No Easter Encampment. . Donbdin, Tuesday, , s There will be no Easter-Encamp*' mont this year, • Government not being able to give the usual subsidy, . The United District Board, Mandamus Granted- ~

Weluhqton,'Tuesday; ! The application for a jmmdamus by the Benevolent Society to compel the' United District Board: ty, do ; itß duty and levy contributions, was granted this morning with 70 guineas costs,

The Appointment of Mr Maxwell

Auckland, Tuesday. A meeting of the Kailway Reform League at Hamilton yesterday. passed a resolution expressing aiarm at the appointment of Mr Maxwell as Kailway Corumisßioner,'on the ground that his management lmd caused grave dissatisfaction, and hindered the settlement of the country; also that Mr Maxwell considered the present system perfect, and therefore there in no hope of the draßtis reforms recommended liy tho Parliamentary Commission being parried OHt.

The Murder 01-a ConyictGhrisichuroii, January 28, John MoMariiis was committed for trial today for the murder of Wm, Cody at Bipn Island on Saturday, Death from ChlorodyneCnßisToauKOH, January 28. _At the inquest on Chapman, who died on Saturday from an overdose of ohlorodyne, a verdict of died- from poisoning by chlorodyne, taken while under the influence of liquor, was returned. Thedeceased was President of tlie Operative Bootmakers' Society, the members of. which knocked off! work half a day to attend liia funeral. Death of a "Pilgrim."

CußisionuKOU, January 28. Joseph Childv a blacksmith at Lyttelton, aged 75, one of the "pilgrims," died rather suddenly yesterday morning. He left work apparently well on Saturday afternjon, and was seized witli a fit in the evening, He died at 5 a,m. on Sunday after a second Bt. Fires-

CimiSTciiußon, Tuesday. At 1,80 this morning a fire broke out in the crockery store belonging to Percy Nine Ward, No cause is given for the fire. The insurance on the stock is £SOO in the London Liverpool and Lancaster. Tlie stock is said to be worth £SOO, and .the damage is equal to the insurance. The building is insured in the same office for 1100 and is considerably damaged.

A Woollen Factory for Sale-

Auckland, January 28. The North New Zealand Woollen Factory was offered for sale by the liquidators to-clny, There was a large attendance, but not a single bid was made.

Breach of the Bankruptcy Act

Dunedin, January 28. 'At the Supreme Court the bankruptcy certificate of F, Wilkinson, ironmonger, was suspended for two years for not keeping proper books. J. Draper Milton, "had his discharge suspended for six months.