SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (Our own Correspondents.) Wednesday evening.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 569, 13 January 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Our own Correspondents.) Wednesday evening .

At the meeting to-day of the New Zealand Insurance Company, the report shewed receipts £109,774; expenditure, ,£40,284. The losses were very heavy on the Strathmore and Strathnavar* A "dividend of fifteen per cent, was declared, and the directors and auditors were re-elected. FIRING FUR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES. No 4 Company— Kelly, 87; Captain Morrow, 83 ; Soall, 83; Morrow, 76; Hay, 75, ware the highest scotes. The Rev. Father floyne, of Howick, is dead. A labourer, working on Martin's tunnel at Mercer, was brought to the hospital by the morning train with his leg fractured, .through getting jammed between the truck and earthwork. Between seven and eight o'clock hat night, a louded barge containing about 90 bales of wool, moored alongside the wharf at Mercer, was observed to be on fire. The steamer Alert had passed a short time before. It is supposed a fire flake from the funnel had fallen into the barge. The alarm was raised, and some 30 bales being thrown overboard, the tire was got under without damaging the barge, and the wool thrown overboard recovered. Amelia Tbornally, charged at the Supreme Court with forgery at the Thames, was acquitted. The Phoebe has arrived from the South. The Presbytery bus sat to*day. Tho Rev Robert Somerville accepted a call to the Whau. The Rev Mr Norrie reported upon the induction of the Rev Mr Scott tit Ngnruawahia.

GRAHAMBTOWN> A child died of icarlot fever.

Taurakoa. The final arrangements for the purchase of the Puke block are completed.

Wanoanui. Two girls Haokett and Aitkona got out of their depth bathing and were drowned,

KtVERtON. A schooner has picked up McLean the survivor from a prospecting party of six who have been exploring the West Coast of Otago, and were shipwrecked in Preservation Inlet. He hud subsisted six weeks on shelfish. The others are supposed to have perished.

Otaoo. The Hon Mr Reynolds, Commissioner of Customs, ha* been returned lor Port Chalmers The " Evening News " started by Reed, Brett, and Jones, published its flr»t iwue on Saturday.