TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3838, 22 June 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

(United Press Association.)

Auckland, Juno 20.

By the R.M.3. Monowai, which left for San Francisco this afternoon, General Schaw- was a passenger for England ; Captain Chapman, of .the American ship Joseph H. Scammell, wrecked on the Victorian coast, was also a passenger for New York. ' June 21.

The annual report ot" the Jubilee Kindergarten states that there are 122 children on the roll. Tho income is £l9B. Owing to the shrinkage iu the receipts one teacher has been dispensed with. Waipawa, June 20. A four-roomed cottage, occupied by Mr Marjtin Priest at Edenham, was burned down yesterday. Nothing was saved. The insurance on the furniture is £IOO in the South British.

Greymouth, June 20.

The barricade erected to stop the harbour works has been removed by the parties who erected it, and without any arrangements having been made with the Board. The works are still stopped. The coal export for the week waa_ 8558 tons. ;Jf ! Dunedin, June 20. V

One publican's and two bottle licenses in the city have been forfeited through failure to pay the fees. Ashburton, June 20.

Walter But tan Moss died suddenly to-day, aged 551 He was a brother of Mr Moss, ex M.H.R., British Resident at Rarotonga, and has been in the Colony since 1875. He was for some years on the West Coast.

Straajfo Disappearance.

Dunbdin, June 21. The man Webster, who attempted to cut his.throat at Green Island'a couple of months ago, • disappeared from his house oh Wednesday; night, and has not been heard of since. He left the bouse b with:; the intention of visiting ; a 'frie'ndtt. housed but never went there, and no one has sesn him since. * ■ ; - • ' *".*.* Fatal Aeoldoni • ■ F. McQueen, who had been a clerk on the Levels Estate of the New Zealand and Australian Land Co., for many years, was killed on' the Washdyke road, about, five miles north of Timaru, last night. "The horße he was riding bolted and threw him, McQueen landing on the hard metalled road and breaking his neck. A fellow traveller, on picking ! : him up, found him quite dead.

' Ohwgo Against Natlvfli. "*' ' '' AooKLANpi June 20. ' T Mihiuui and his wife were, on the information of F D Rich, oharged atfflfr the Resident Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, with malicious injury to property by pulling up and destroying a culvert on the JPatatere estate. The evideuoo disclosed a question of title,'' : and this qualified the alleged malice in the Act, The/Court adjourned , the "ease to the Bth /when i accused will be tried on a .second information ot destroying a bridge, and the Court will give its decision . on the present case. The Natives were set at liberty on promising to appear. ,■.;„■'' „„■»! The Straadoi stoamor TTaMlu. '

New Plymouth, June Hi; n, .$. ; An attempt was made this morning to float off the stranded steamer' ' Wanakajbnt it proved unsuccessful. She ' was moved a short distance. Another attempt will be made on Monday morning, it is hoped with better results. lis 0. a. Bookett. Blenheim, Jaue 20. jfy,. A large gathering of theiCbnl-S ; - mercial and landed interests of Marlborough took place this afternoon to", celebrate the opening of the. new Times' office, the fittings and < appointments of which are now complete. MrT. Horton(Fell Bros, and Co.) in a flattering speech, proposed. " Success and prosperity (o-'the ; Times" and the health, pf. ( its. proprietor, Mr O. G. Beckett,' making sympathetic allusions to the late disastrous fire, and eulogising the enterprise and energy of the present. management, The toast was drunk with enthusiasm, and Mr Beokett, proprietor, and Mr Canavan, editor of the fimes, responded. The affair waa a great suooessv J . *?M> ! -