NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2013, 2 June 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, Sunday. By a fiie at Ot.iki thia morning, the stores of Me-sia Cotteull and William Smith weie dcatioud. The latter is a Cliinaman. and for some time back has carried on cxttnsne business at Otaki. The follow ins are the insurances:— Budding, £200 in the Nation.il, £300 in the London .mil Lincashiio, £300 in the New Zealand ; tttlluml table, £100 in the Northern ; furniture, £7)0 m the Northern. The sum available for distiibution in the Waring Taylor hankmpt estate is £14.000, piincipally derived from the sale of stock-in trade. The cieditors will receive about '.h in the £. The Colonial Tieasnrer acknowledges the receipt of £140 from someone in New South Wales, who states that many yean ago he wronged the Government of New Zealand of that amount.

CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Thomas Howe, foimeily time keeper on the Lyttelton railw.n, and eight other employes, are charged w ith defrauding the Government by means of Howe giving the othcis ci edit for do;ng woik which they never pi-ifouned. The exact amount of the defalcations is not known, but it is believed to be some hundreds of pounds. Howe was arrested in Wellington, and arrived j esterday.

Monday. Nine late employees in the railway service at Ljttelton, were charged on Saturday, before the R.M. Court, with conspiracy to defraud the Government. The men were remanded till Wednesday next, as one of the principal conspirators has not been arrested. The fraud is alleged to have consisted in one of the accused named Thomas Howe giving tb« others credit for work they never performed. The exact amount of the dtit'"<j cations is not known, but it is believed to* be some hundreds of pounds. How^ waa arrested in Wellington.

HAWERA, Monday. A man named Richard Faville was arrested on Saturday night on a charge of arson at Oeo. Faville had been turned out of the hotel for being drunk and disorderly, and soon after the occupants of the house had gone to bed a large box containing some inflammable material was found to be burning close to the outside of the house (a Mooden one). Faville was discovered crouching beside a fence near the hotel, and he was brought up at Manaia this morning and remanded.

DUNEDIN, Monday. A six-roomed house in Union-street, occupied by Mr Magget and owned by Mr Baber, was burned down this morning. The furniture was insured in the Victoria Ofiicefor £140, and the building in the Norwich Union for £'200. Some clothes which had been placed before the kitchen tire to dry ignited and caused the tire.

A man, lately mat i ied, was asked at the club <il ion t his In hie. "Is she pretty : " No," :eplied lie, " Bhe is not: but she will be when her father diea." " No vehicle drawn by more than one animal is allowed to cross this budge iv opposite directions at the same time," is a notice posted on a bridge iv Providence. Tenders for works in connection with the Waipa County Council, are advertised for m another «vl<{inu.