TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 846, 17 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

SPECIAL TMLti<}RAM:.b'.

Auckland, last nigh b. An enfchusiasbic in ae dug. is proceediug' at the Choral Hall, to cousider the political sibuatioa. Mr. Bovlau moved fir.it> reso.uoioa as follows : — '' That ia tfie opinipu of this meeting, ib is considered desireable that the financial position of i the colbny should ba placed beforethe counbry by the present Government, and if a factious opposibion be continued, that the Government should immediately apply for. a dissolution." The resolution wa'a carried amid great applause. GISBOItSE. The fire began m f ur new buildings being erecbed for Sbevenson, livery . stable-keeper, m Childers, streeb. The wind was blowing fro .a the, aoubh ward driviug the fire right across the block boiuided by Cbilders, Lowe, and Gladstone streets. There were no appliances to extinguish it, and it lecanid uncontrolable, sweeping right across the block, abbackin^ bouse afber house, until the M isonic Hotel, at the corner of G'adatone and Lowe streets was reache i. The fire then leape.l across the street, and seized on the block on the uorbh side of Gladstone street. Insurances :— ' New Zealand Office, £1500 ; Nabional, £1300 ; Standard, £800. Tb Awamutcj, yesterday. The Indian Famine Relief Fund at Rangiiiohia amounbs bo £35 7s. A few days a;jjo another sum of £20 was subscribed m Te Awamutu to help a distressed working man. LA.RGS FIRS AT GISBORNE Gisborne, yesterday, 1.30 p.m. A terrific fire is now raging m the town of Gisborne. The Masonic Hobel, ' The Sband^ird ' newspaper office, and eleven other buildings ai-e burried to the ground: The pejplo are terr.ir stricken, for there is no way of combatting the flames, X fc is impossible to esti mate

the 1q33, Tir> as voj^little property, if }j,\VJ x I|^?P» Wednesday. -..-■\ A-pk^Ve. njM\M^h 13 been hell at AJcselro|k(OSSg with r«speoi/ wM^Miouffing up of the Cam)brijie / rold^^Mtn the Tokoroa pl^iiis^^ 7 thoj^pi\amuri bridge, "TaiipoC Th^^Kefs hore who take an interest m this mutter, hope to commence the road about next : motifeh^^h^reHß tt^^*Btron^(tesdra i " here that the Government should cull for tenders for the construction ■ ; of-tho : -road^"~----^~'-^^--.~^*;.«;:^^-^^, ;J0 r C/JEJttIs.TGfi^RCH, Thursc|ay. The crops are still-suffering 1 from want of J Tdtfr. ! >- Late sown wheat f on. ligiit , lasr 'j£t' «l^ w^e^ ri %, ..gpneralf/i looking s welL. t ■..Potatqes ihay Q-l)ee,u ( , serio U9ly •da J uias:e r d : by«ifi^)Bts. T -if::^ < o j...i<; ; „