NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
BLENHEIM, Thursday. A hoy, 2\ years old, a son of Matthew Doyle, Tnamarina, was drowned in a hol^ this mottling. He was playing round it, ami fell in. TIMARU, Thursday. A man named Hegarty, while driving a coal cart, had a very narrow escape this afternoon. While crossing the rail-j* way line he way run into by the express^ train. The horse was killed instaneously Hegarty escaped unhurt. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The following letter has been received by the Colonial Treasurer from the Royal Mint, Victoria : —"Referring to previous correspondence on the subject of ths transmission to this branch of Her Majesty's mint of worn silver coin -withdiawn from circulation in New Zealand, I have the honour to inform you that as the regulations issued by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the purpose of exchange at their nominal value, or worn silver coins withdrawn fiom circulation, apply only to such coins as hay c been rendered unfit for circulation by fair wear and tear, and as coins which have been wilfully defaced may from time to time be sent to the mint for witlidiawal, I have been instructed to notify that coins thus wilfully defaced will not be received at their nominal value, but they will be taken, provided they are otherwise genuine, at their weight as bullion, and paid for at the rate per ounce (juoted as the standard pi ice of silver in the latest advances received fiom the master of the mint." PORT CHALMERS, Friday. Arrived: llimutaki. Passage: *^k days 10 hours oomins; steaming timo^Hl 3'J days 11 hours lOnuns. She brings^H 3074 tons of cargo, 21)4 passengers, and V '2oH bags of mails. '
In consequence of Tuesday being race day, Mcsms Hunter and Nolan will hold their .1 unction sale on Wednesday. Waikato sellers die requested to foi ward stock by Monday or Tuesday's train to Green Lane. Mr D. McLaren offers his farm of CCS acres, close to the Oh-iupo railway station, tor sale* Particulars to be bad from Mr McLaren,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2
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343NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2
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