The Easter Enoampment.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3150, 11 March 1889, Page 2

The Easter Enoampment.

CHPisicuoncn, March 10. vTllOi -Volunteer ■•■ authorities Mixed the site for the Easter cainp on the ■plain, between the Wailmiaiid Hiirunui rivei-6, or the Horeelv- Downs estate ■ about, eighty. miles from Gluistclnuch.

Deputations. CnmsioHUROH, Maroh 10. Chief Commissioner McKerrow saw deputations this ■ morning ' con-; cerning providing accommodation i for imported goods being examined i by the Customs at Chnstchurch instead ;of Lyttleton, reducing the railage charges oa the Lyttleton line, and placing the charges on timber for shipment carried on the Little River line on au equality with the rates [charged- on other lines. Ho promised to consider all the matters with his colleagues. . Ho leaves for Welliflgton to-night, '

The Fire at Auckland, ' . Auckland, Monday, Many of the buildings ilestroyedat Cambridge wero uninsured. . -The New Zealand had a :ri'sk of LSQO on three of Oox's buildings, the National L'2so on a portion of. the block, tlio Nonvioh Union L2OO on, "Bond's printing office, and LSO on another property, and the Victoria L3OO oil Sergeanta'a, ' • ; ' ';■■;;■ - LATHR. ; . The material found in the draw in! Jones' saddlery shop, Queen-street, where tbe fire took place Inst week, proves to be patent fire kindjors, The police believe the lire was the work of an incendiary, who obtained an entrance by / the liack door, which was found unbolted, The lire kindlers were not used by Jones, aud it is believed they were introduced by the incendiary, who evidently was unacquainted with the premises, RISE IN SUCtAJK. Weiumgtos, March 11, In sympathy, with the advance reported from Australia, tiie Colonial Sugar Company of Auckland : have raised the price 10s per ton,"" . Chlorodyne. •

CnRisipHUKCH, March 10. ■ David; Orango, a follmonger at Woolston, died this morning from the effects of taking two bottles' of chlorodyne. He was in financial trouble, ,