Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3212, 23 May 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

Auckland Items

Auckland, May 22, At the Tauranga Police Court yesterday the license of the Halfway House dotal was forfeited on' the ground of the licensee having been absent from the premises for more than U days.

It .is alleged that the.cause of the want of discipline manifested jiy the Volunteers at the late Easter encampment is that all the ~companies' are now independent of ' each other, whereas formerly' they were in a division, and subject tq a commandant. The change has tended toward disorganisation..

At ft meeting of tlie Ohambev of Commerce lield to consider whether buyer or seller should pay for bags in which 'gratis sold, the resolution passed by the Chamber in 1885 was confirmed. The resolution is—" That bags containing' produce should hot be paid for, but be .weighed in and paid for at the same rate as the .contents." The Chairman (Captain Colbeckj stated; that, the Opotiki farmers were opposed to this, as ftoni 20,000 to 30,000 sacks of produce left; Opotiki every year; and, calculating Cd.per sack, a'sum of £SOO to £6OO per annum represented a : loss most unjust to the farming community and most keenly felt. _ The number of tourists who havo visited Waiotapu Valley, Rotorua, since December list is 220, as against 80 for the previous season. This is exclusive of local visitors.

A meeting of the creditors of T, L,J White* bankrupt, was held to-day, when the debtor wrote intimating that as he had found it impossible to make out a statement of his receipts and expenditure, the data at liis disposal being only fragmentary, lie could not attend, 'JLbis being thesecond meeting as. whiok White jm. absent, a resolution was passed instructing the Official.Assignee to 'proceed against him for contempt of Court. ' . .

An Important Point. Waipawa, Thursday. The enquiry yesterday iuto the fire that destroyed the Waipawa hotel was remarkable for the rider added by the jury to the verdict, whioli was as follows There is 110 evidence before the jury to show how the fire originated, The Jury are of opinion that the proper time to raise the question of value is when the proposal is" made,. but that when the company accept the proposal and takes 'premiums it 'should in all fairness, when a fire 00-. ours pay up, and not raise the question of over-insurance," The jury was composed of somo leading business men, and they resented being forced to sit all day—not to find out how the fire originated, but discover the value of the premises burnt. The Company interested was the North British and Mercantile,