SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
[press agency. I AUCKLAND, laafc night. Destructive Fires are raging in various parts of the North, especially afc Hokianga, destroying millions of feet of timber, At Kaikobe, near Hokianga, an extensive kauri forest is burning. Tho mischief is supposed to have been caused by gum diggers. The Commission of higher education visited the Church of England Grammar School at Parnell, and the Girls' High School tD.day. Oapt. Worsp has gone.to Tauranga to examine the wreck of the ' Taupo.' An advertisemef for a junior clerk for the Auckland Savings Bank elicited thirty applications. WELLINGTON, last night. The Hawea rotums South immediately after arrival at Auckland on Friday, calling at Tauranga for the purpose of conveying the Taupo's passengers to their several destinations,
INVERCARGILL, last night. Walsh was executed to-day for the murder of his wife at Waikawa, and manifested great coolness. "He made no statement.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1039, 20 February 1879, Page 2
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146SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1039, 20 February 1879, Page 2
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