TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3690, 18 December 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(Per Press Association,) Dunedin, December 17, The retiring Mayor, Mr John Roberts, in a lengthy valedictory address, strongly urges the necessity for the oity going in for systematic drainage, io which end Parliament should be asked to oreate a Drainage jJoard, with ample rating ooiyafg, Atthein?;-t o n tlio child Ada Giesler, who died on tho 13th of last fflonth, having got hold of and took some solution of caustic, the verdict was to the effect that she died from peritonites, accelerated by drinking the solution,

_ The Middle Island Dairy Association are applications from persons having a knowledge of dairy business, to go to England with a shipment of butter and cheese, which is to be closely watched with the view, of seouring a reporfcon the oauses of deterioration. Gisborne, Dooember 17. The Native Land Commission, consisting of Mr Justice Edwards and Commissioner Ornisby, has commenced sittings, There are a large number of applications to be dealt with, Sheep Stealing. Lyxtelton, December 17, ' An extensive case of sheep stealing is reported from Airdling'i, Little i River. One ! of the men implicated turned against his mates, who have all been arrested The case comes o,ff on, the 2ith inst; ThsTtaMttßartourv ■

TarAsu, December 17. •'. The Harbour Board to-day resolved to make an experiment tor 90 working days at shifting the shingle from accumulation at the breakwater by water carriage, lifting over the mole by. a| dredge, into a hopper. and discharging it to leeward, The engineer, Mr Marcb'aiit.rsayfl that draining would be cheaper, but this was not correct. The denudation of the coast north ward was now going on owing to the stoppage of the Ail amendment to appoint aPfimuilsejon of tp adyjse was lost by one v'qte,. po nocumu-