Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3208, 18 May 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Clerk to Executive Council.

Wellington, Saturday, . The Government intend to combine the office of clerk to the Executive Council with some of those already in existenco, as thero is not enough Work for one man, No appointment has yet been made, < '

The Laing-Smitlf' Glove Fig t 'Wellington, Saturday, The Mayor objects to Laing and Smith fighting,; but the police at present see i\o ground . for interference, They consider it only a glovo contest, and not a prise fight ' dPound Dea-

• Dunedin, Saturday,. A woman named Rao was found dead in a water hole at Abbotsiord. '

\ Bumt by Cotfl Gas.

'. Ciiristchurch, May 17. I ; Ou Wednesday last an explobion pccurre(l;on-.board the sis. Wareatuß, I which arrived at Lyttolton to-day i with 'Grejraouth coal, Wlion off Cape Fat ewell, Samuel • Taylor,. a i seaman, went down the hatch and i struck a match, and an explosion of I gas followed. . He w|s blown over the combings of the hatch on to the deck, and was fearfully burned on i the face. The force of the explosion wjs so great that two batches were blpwn overboard. Taylor is progressing favourably,

Yankee Grab.

7 • . Timaku, May 17. MrrTventyman-Wilson, licensee of the' Melville Motelj was fined £5, and the conviction endorsed on his license, for allowing an, ; unlawful game to be played in his bar; last Saturday night. It was'proyed. that men were playing Yankee- grab for drinlts. The Resident Magistrate held this to be an unlawful point in the defence was that the defendant'was not aware of it, but it. was shown he was in and out of the bar for drinks for other , rooms, and the Magistrate said he did not believe the denial oi knowledge. The police ■were informed by a man who swore he saw one of the players cheating with false dice, and .the man was convicted of it last' Monday. •: : ■ •

" Dunedin, May 18. David 31oag, hawker, was killed at St. Batlmns. His horses bolted dashing into brick stables in the township. Arrived.-Richmond from Islands I bringing; Barotanga news to May 6. A few days back the schooner Punui arrived from Tahiti Ngatangia, and from her was obtained the very unwelcome news that after. aU the French authorities had stolen a march and hoisted their flag on the islands Rimitaru .and Rutuhi, This news created a great deal of excitement here. The schooner Nassau, which arrived yesterday from Tahiti, 1 brings intelligence that the French had decided 'to annex the island of Mautake. This island is . about 500 I miles north of this island, and is a very valuable little island. .

The Richmond brings further news that when tho French man-of-war reached fhe island named, the natives had hoisted the British flag, thus securing the' island against French occupation.

North, May 17, t A new trial wqb to-dav granted in tho case of Lloyd v Manawatu Road ISonrd.

At nn interview with the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, MrMcKerrow Chief Railway Commissioner, stated that there would be a re-arrangement of the train service between Wellington and Wangamii, so aB to shorten the time and allow passengers to arrive at Wellington early at night, Gbeymouth, May 17, Robert Robinson, of Greymouth, was buried by a fall of eartli in a tunnel, where lie was working, at Stillwater. A gang of 'men worked all night and recovered bis body a short while ago.

New Plymouth, May 17, Considerable enquiry is being made for land in the centra of the town, and | yesterday a vacant block was sold at £4O a foot for building on, ' Dunedin, May 17, flarraway's flour and oatmeal mills at Green Island were burnt to the ground to-night, also one of the workmen s cottages. No particulars are to hand, but it is known that the loss to the owner will he very heavy, as the insurances are very light, The mill was full of grain and flour.

Invercabgh.l, May 17, James Ohadwicb, a laborer at a mill, was feeding a threshing machine at Isla Bank in tho Western district. He slipped, and bad. his ]ctj lacerated so severely by the machinery t|iat he died before reaching the hospital at Eiverton,

Up to date, 179,600 sacks ofthid season a crops have been carried over the Southland section of the railways, and in the price of oats keeps up it is expected that farmeis will rush in all they can before the roads break up, and there will be little left for export in the Spring. Chhistohdboh, May 17. Mr E. Louqhrey, M.H.E. for Linwood, was banquetted by his constituents to-night.

Dunedin May 17. At the City Court Lee Fook and Dee Muir were fined £2O or three months for keeping a gambling house where the game of pak apu was played. Mr Uarew will state a case for appeal, CHiusTonußCH, May 17. _ The Mayor has received a letter signed by over 400 citizens thanking him for refusing to preside at the meeting of Parnell sympathisers in March.

Auckland May 17. . Tlio Hon. E. Mitohelson lias further deferred his departure for Wellington till Monday, _ A. Kidd's bankruptcy in connection with the land syndicate has been annulled, Ml satisfaction being given for all olaims.