TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3488, 18 April 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, April 17. : Tl e Amateur • Athletic Club havo fotid £lO additional, making £. 0 in all,. toward the expenses of the New Zealand Atbletio team to Sydney. .

Several cases of influenza hare occurred at Kaitaki, in the Bay of Plenty.

A suggestion has been.made that a public testimonial in tho form of an appropriate tombstone bo erected at the grave of tha late Henry Talbot. The racehorses Tirailleur, Avonoel, and Volcano were shipped toNapior today. It in reported by a Hamilton correspondent that tho Government havo ordered that work shall cease in the Taupiri coal mino. It is considered that tho mine is dangerous, The property has just been banded over to the owner after being worked by the Company for ten year?,

Chrisiowjroh, April 17.

Influenza still prevails, One death occurred from it to-day, that of Mr W. H. Shaw, secretary to tho Land Board, Ho was 43 years old, an active member of the Church of England, and houorary secretary of the Socibly for tho Preventing of Cruelty to Animals. He was in weak health for several years' . Dunedin, April 17.

Information has been received that a young man named Alexander has been lost on tho ranges near Nenihorne. A party have gone out to seanih tor him,

A plan of the proposed improvement of the Lowor Harbour, to admit of the port becoming the last port ot 'departure for tho Direct steamers, was, at a meeting of -tho Harbour Board,referrcdtoacommittee. Westport, April 17. Thomas Dolman, late secretary of tbo Oddfellow's Lodge at Denniston, w«s charged nt ibe Resident Magistrate's Court to-day with embezzling £8 12s, tho raonoys of the Lodge, Tho accused, who admitted the churgo, was remanded till Wednesday.

Charitable Aid-

1 Dunedin, April 17.

At a meeting of the Charitable. Aid Board to-day, it was decided to again write to tho Government as to the Industrial School, pointing out that last year the Board had no less a sum than £8250 for the support of indigent children, which they had handed over without having the slightest control in regard to the present bringing up or disposal of the children, and without having any control whatever over the expenditure, They Bgain pointed out that tho system was altogether opposed to the principles which ought to be carried out in representative and local self-gov-ernment.

A Missing Crew-

Nelson, April 17. In connection with the missing settlers, Bierelon and son, of Ngatimoti, near Motueka, who went for a few day's fishing to Astrolabe in a catamaran,- intending to return on Good Priday,but of whom nothing has been seen since the 3rd instant, a part of the catamaran has been found near Awaroa by Mr D. W. Murray, surveyor,: and brought into Nelson. The portion consists of a canoe with 'the wreckage which bound it to its fellow canoo. There was a paddle in the canoe, hut the bodies nave not been found. It is believed that the two canoes came asunder in a squall On the 3rd, when the craft was seen from a ooaster and missed after the S]Ulll,

Suicide through Influenza-

. Duhedis, April 17. A miner at Saddlo Hill, named Hugh Miller, committed suicide by takiug " Hough on rats." Ho had been ailing for some time past, and lately had an attack of influenza. He was a married man, 45 years of age, and a native of Scotland. At the inquest a verdict was returned of death fioin " Rough on rats," taken while temporarily insane,