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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3989, 15 December 1891, Page 2

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[By Tbleobaph.—Press Association.] Ghribtoburob, December 14. Mr Firth, for five years gymnastic master at Christ's College, who is going to Wellington, was to-night presented with a silver teapot and biscuit box by the scholars. Several prominent citizens, including J. G. Ruddenkjau, F. H. Bruges, solicitor, and Dra Ned will and I Ovqnden, are all ill with influenza. j three adults have died from influenza alone in the hospital. Dunedin, December 14. Ac a meeting qi shareholders of the Wsitabuna Quartz Mining Company it was resolved to wind up. The directors read extracts from glowing reports by the late manager, which all ended in nothing ;in fact, the acting manager stated that the mine had only been scratched.

Inveroarqill, December 14. Miss Billing, of the Methodist Ladies' College, Hawthorne, Mel* bourne, is the candidate selected for the 6rst assistant teacher for the Southland Girls' High School. There were 17 applicants. & tfisslxu- Lady. Auckland, December 14. On Saturday evening Mrs R. Reynolds, wife of a well-known settler at Cambridge, Waikato, disappeared from her home, and, though a search party has been organised, has not been seen. Oamaru Woollen Company. Oaharu, December 14. The annual meeting of the Oamaru Woollen Faotory Company was held to-night. The balance-sheet showed a profit for the year of about £2700, and the directors had jpided to vote this to the wiping guarantee fund, which would be now almost ex* tingaished. The prospects ofthe Company were spoken of injflfery hopeful manner, and it was eirprotea that noxt year the directors would be able to declare a dividend. Struck Dead by Lisritaiag" Auckland, December 14. Norman Kemp, aged 19, settler at Waipu, was killed by lightning at noon on Saturday. He was standing at the doorway of his cottage, when he suddenly fell inwards, quite dead. His Bister was in the room at the time, and was rendered completely deaf. Some articles in the house were shivered by the eleotrio fluid. An Important Funotlon. Thames, December 14. An important function took place to-day near Miranda, within the boundaries of the King Country. About seventy European visitors from Auckland and the Thames were pre* sent, when a Thames syndicate took formal possession of 1300 acres of Maori land containing coal and various hot springs. To all this the Maoris have given a complete and indefensible title, the first of the kind that has been given on legal and commercial terms. It means the beginning of a new era with regard to working minerals on Maori' territory. round Dead. Dcnedin, December 11. A rabbiter named Sinolair, from Southland, workingonTfcrra'slSlation, Cromwell, was found dead by a search party to-day. He hud been in poor health. He was a quiot man, and had been a bank clerk in "Scotland.