TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3398, 31 December 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Arrival of the Aorangt

. Wellington. Monday, The Aorangi was bended ntono o'clock. She left Plymouth after having been detained by a fog on the 16lh November, with 300 bags mails, 13 boxen parcel post, 232 passengers and 56 boxes specie. Shu arrived at Tenoriffe November 21st, Cupo Town December Ist, Hobarl 25th,

Sydney J. Porrin, a second class pnssfnger, died of phthisis on the 13i!i December. Fine weathei was experienced throughout the voyage.

Auckland Items-

Auckland, December 80,

ThoOrowu Prince of Rarotonga hat arrived in Auckland, Ho is to interview Mr Mitolielson tcmorrow.

A pigeon match sweepstake of £5 6aek took plaoo to-day at the Tramways Company's grounds, Epsom, and was won by J, Wattio. .There were eight competitors,

. At. a meeting of the residents of Pokono the property tax was- condemned, and a branoh of the AntiProperty Tax League established in Auckland was formed,

i Amongst the. passengers by- the I Mariposa from Sydney was Colonel i Bargood, M.L.0., of Victoria, head ol ; the firm of Sargood, Son & Ewen. 1 His visit to the colony is one of ' pleasure, and after three weeks' stay in Auckland he will visit the Lake Country, Wellington and the South, going to the Dunedin Exhibition. Accidents and Fatalities. Auckland, Decombor 80. A youth named Herbert Nicholas, 17 years of age, lias been 'drowned near Uowick through falling into a oreek. . Dunedin, Deo 80. Mrs Robertson, of Cromwell, is supposed to have committed suicide in the Clutha river. George Murray, manager of the Dunstan Hotel, was drowned in the Clutlm while bathing. Fire Brigades' Demonstration. Dunedin, Deoember 30. ■ It is intended to hold a Fire Brigade torchlight procession and pyrotechnic display, in which Canterbury, Southland and Otigo Brigades will take part, and at his Excellency'* request, the llth January has been fixed as the date. Free rail way passes have been secured for the viMtiu* Brigades, CiißisiCHuaon, December 30. The Chrislchurch Fire Brigade have decided to accept Lord Onsleiv's invitation to the firemen's gatheiing at Dunedin, on January 11,

FLAX INDUSTRY. Anokund, December 30. During a visit to England Mr E. Bell, who has just returned to Auckland, interviewed Hindley and Co. the principal London dealers in fibres.and hadaconversation with them in regard to New Zealand flax which they said would have nothing to fear in competition with other fibres

providing that a good standard of/quality was maintained, This condition wag indispehsiMe, and if the quality was irregular the fibre would not be able to compete with that: from other centres. Messrfl Hindley and Co. also urged that it wasneoessary to do away, with middlemen and numerous charges entailed before tlie flax came into their hands. They considered it most important'! that the producers in New Zealand should be brought in direct communication with the dealers'.. Mr JBell was informed by Messrs' Hindley and 80, that the best flax whioH reached them oiime from Auckland,