TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 19 June 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. INTERPROVINCIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. Tire Hannah Mokau, which was on fire when coming from Kawhia, "was insured in the Union Company for £700. The cargo is said to be insured in the South British for £2">o. Last night a fire broke out in ono, of the beili ooms of the Bridge Hotel, Wait.ira. caused by children playing with candles. H was extinguished, however, before much damage was done.

WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The weather is again boisterous, and lain has been falling all day without intermission.

CHRISTCHURCFT, Tuesday. At the adjourned licensing committee meeting ifc waa decided to allow hotel' kcepeis to extinguish their lamps at midnight.

Wednesday. Two apprentices of the barque Examiner while at Greymowth eat tinned jam bearing a Hobart label and were seized with severe sickness, apparently poisoned through the tinning process. One apprentice was obliged to be put on shore at Lyttelton.

OAM A SU, Tuesday. At the annual meeting of the licensing committee to-day all the Lorough licenses were made at ten o'clock. It waa also decided that the premises of all bottle license holders should be closed at tea o'clock.

DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Mr Fergu3, M.H.K., intends going North to-morrow. He gets about only with sticks, having hurt hia knee rather severely in getting out of a buggy in Tasmania.