TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Issue 837, 30 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Auckland, last night. Payne's store, at the Lower Wairoa, and its contents were totally destroyed by fire.. The inmates barely escaped in their night dresses, The building was insured for .£l3O and the stock, for. £4OO- - Fletcher, the local hangman, was committed to trial for stealing tools from, an unfinished building. The Famine Relief Committee on a fete in Government House grounds on Saturday. : Wellington, last night. The Zealandia is quarantined, with four cases of a severe type of small pox. £IOOO has been subscribed for the famine fund. Timaru, last night. - The grain market is depressed. Wheat, 6s to 6s 6d; oats, 3s to 3 3 8 d. THE ZEALANDIA. WellinotTON, Saturday. The sickness on board the Zealandia is small-pox. One of the crew was attacked with it shortly after Rio, and is still ill. He was soon, followed by auother of the crew who died in "a few days. A' third and fourth were attacked, and are yetl suffering * the effects of the disease. ( There ar.e several other cases on board,, but not of a danger-

onrbm^pipc^ nature of the, disease on board, some difficulty was experienced in getting one to go into quarin line, but it is understood the agents, ..Levin and 00., will send & medical man on board as soon aa obtainable.