SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 802, 7 August 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[Press Agency.] Auckland, last night; A town lot m Alexandra East sold at Cochrane's anction mart to-day for £17. The City Surveyor has given employment to forty men m the formation of Collingwood-street. The Acclimatisation Society to-da/ considered that there was a great scarcity ot hen pheasants, and resolved that amendment of the present law was necessary for their protection. A sudden gust of wind blew down the chimneys of the Temperance Hotel, Onehunga, destroyed Mclntyre's forge, and partially unroofed Hardington's stables, and drove m the corner of Barnes' shed, and sent a lot of Waller's timber on I the wharf flying towards Otahuhu. The street was strewn with wreckage ! Inspection proves that a stroke of. lightning which flashed vividly during the time the whirlwind was performing, caused much of the damage. Mclntyre's iion roof has on each side a hole driven through by electric force. A larger hole also has burst through the solid masonry m Barnes' store. THE UNEMPLOYED. The meeting . of unemployed labourers was carried on m a very orderly manner. The city works are considered sufficient t6 provide temporarily for the men. One of their chief grievances is sub-con-tracting being taken at prices that will not give men three shillings a day. New Plymouth, last night Horopapura, a native, who escaped from gaol, a short time since, and for whose body Government offered a reward of £1 00, is cap tured. Horopapuru is a man six feet m height and between 15 aud 16 stone m weight, a very determined character, and is son of the late chief Hapurona, who successfully opposed the British troops during General Pratt's first Waitara campaign. Horopapuru was undergoing 1 sentence of three yeai's for unlawfully wounding and nearly killing a native woman. Ckristchurch, last night Smith, chief clerk m Cobb's office, was found m che river ; " supposed to have committed suicide.