TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3393, 23 December 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Cheap Excursions.

■DiwBMJi, 'December. Si!

The Exhibition Opmmisaionors have obtained a promise -from the Bail-' way Commissioners' that; 'after,jthie week cheap,excursion trains- will be run on fixed days froiri all towns anil, stations oh Hid ,varii)iis,lines,, There will be a.-largo influx of Australian visitors for several" weeks io' come, The Mararoa, djie here on Tuesday,, has ;270 passengers on' ' board, and [tho Tarawfi'rii, 'which left Sydney, via Auckland, yesterday, has 220, There-will he two 'steamers, from Melbourne., next ...Week, (he. Tekapo mid Kotouiiihana, and, one from Sydney, the 'Waihorn,'- It is expected lliat these bouts will have upward of : .500 passengers between tlinm. This will give an aggregate of 2000 tourists from Melbourne during December, .According lo the present arrangements, the Union Company; will have 15. departures from Melbourno and Sydney during January. .. ... 1 :

Fire on a. Wool Ship. , LYITIiLT)N',DpC, 22, The batches of the barqiiu licit, which put into port on December 15 with her cargo of wool oii tire, -were opene'lon Saturday afternoon. During the week Mr J.' H. Gardiner, an expert- in the use of chemicals,' has superintended.the pumping into the. vessol of a quantity of carbonic acid gas as t\ means : of smothering llm' dimes, The .heat in the rarious parts of the vessel's hold was taken at various times, rind finally, it' was agreed that the flames had been got .under and that it would ho safe to open the hatches, Six. hundred bales wero landed on-Saturday nearly all moro or lessdamaged, Two distinct, spaces were found onu on tho square of tbe hatch below tho 'tween deck beams 'and the other forward of the main, mast —so that two fires were evidently raging. It is impcifS'ble to tell yet how much wool has been burnt. Some ot the bales closo to where the spaces were found were smouldering when taken out,' it is the first time on record where chemicals have been used in a ship's hold to fight a fire. Tim underwriters intend issuing a detailed report on the subjeot, Struck Oil.

New Plymouth, Monday, The men engaged dredging near the cattle wharf have' struck oil. On Saturday' Priest-man's bucket bronchi up sand lhal had been caked together by oil oozing up,' When brought to the surface it had a' strong smejl of petroleum,-' v. ■'