TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3462, 18 March 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(Per United Press Association.)

Timahu, Match 17,

At a meeting of creditors to-day of one Dawson, a deferred-payment selector, bouio of the creditors and the Deputy Assignee demanded:'that lie assign his interest iu his land of 15J aeros to uiake up the deficiency of £O2. Ho declined to give up his home and turn his family, on to the roads, and his solicitor advised him not to agree to it, The Official Assignee was authorised to obtain legal advice about it.

Dunedik, Mnvcb 17.

The total Exhibition attendance last week was 27,78G, of which 17,670 paid at the turnstiles. The total admission up to Saturday iiight has been 480,590,'0f which 307,792. represent paid admissiocs. There is a good deal of sickness prevalent, especially among children. In mvuy cases it has assumed a mild form of typhoid, and is put down to the bad water supply, and in many .cases it starts with influenza and colds, and in some quartres is put down as a mild attack of" higri| pe," It has been discovered that the roof of the First Church (Presbyterian) is in such a dangerous condition that the church will have to be closed until repairs are made.

Auckland, March 17.

News from the Islands records the wreck of tho American schooner Cassie Hay ward, on the Island, of Mangaia, on February , 4th, ; The Cassie Hayward was an American vessel under charter to Captain Piltz, and at the time of her loss was on a trading cruise among the Islands under his command. When working on the weather siie of Mangaia Island with a light wind, she ran on to a reef and became a total wreck, All hand» were saved. The hull and cargo of the Bchoonet have been sold by auction.

According to a telegram from Rotorua, Mr Eipor and his soil maUo another attempt to sottlo on their land near Galatea, but wore again driven off by the natives,