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

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 27 October 1885, Page 2

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

HOKITIKA, Saturday. There have been heavy lams with squalll from north-east. The river is in high flood. The weather is very favourable to the bulk of the miners who have % plentiful supply of water. The Natne Reserves Commission finished their labour to day.

WANGANUI, Monday. Gieepan, one of the first prospectors^ has leccived a telegram from a Haural^P chief, offering him permission to prospect Tuhua, and he has accepted.

GRKYMOUTH, Saturday. The Railway Board of Appeal have exonerated Foreman Pope, of the Addington workshops, from the charges brought against him by P. Davis, and decided that the latter was properly dismissed.

DUNEDIN, Saturday. A satisfactory crushing of Blue Spur cement, in the Corporation stone crusher, was made on Saturday. Some 4^ tons were put through in eleven minutes, whereas a ten head battery puts through about five tons per hour. John Robertson, while under the influence of drink, fell off a guard's yan f and was killed.

CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. At a meeting of the committee of the East and West Coast and Nelson Railway League held to-day, it was resolved that the league recommend co-operation between the people of Canterbury, Westland and Nelson to secure the construction ef the line by the Government, simultaneously with the Northern Trunk and Otago Central and advocate an extension of membership of the League to all parts of the colony, with a view of securing political support to those members who will advocate the completion of the Trunk Railway system, and the subsequent cessation of further borrowing for Public Works until the whole railway system has become self-supporting.

Mr H. Lewis, Te Awatnntu Hotel, lii^ 1! Central Wuikato Hotel, thanks the inhabitants of Wdikato and the travelling public foi their kind patronage in the past, and nnnonnces that he has now opened in his new premise*, \\ here he offers every ad van t.»ge to \isitors and tra\elleis. Mr F^rrell, KihiKihi, advertises for lost horses. Mr H. Cowprr will srll at the Cambridge Mart on Thursday drapery, clothing, Stc, &c. Mr J. S HucUand will sell at the Cambridge yards on Thursday, the sth Noyember, pure Ayrshire cattle, tbc property ot Mr A. F, mlcombfj who is leaving for the South.