NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRASS ASSOCAITION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2256, 23 December 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRASS ASSOCAITION.]

NAPIER, Tuesday. The South British loss by the fire on Saturday is ou!y £3000. A boy ayed teD years, son of Mr Daniel Cotton, a member of the Borotigh Council, was drowned this afternoon in a water hole at the Spit. Preparations are being made for laying Hie first block of the breakwater in Jauuary. I

WELLINGTON. Tuesday. Some suburban land is still increasing in value. Township sections cut up by Sir VV. Fitzherbert at Hutt sold privately at over £800 per acre.

CHRLVTCHURCH. Tuesday. The Chinese residents have subscribed f'29 for the Hospital, in recognition of th« kind treatment of the Chinese patients. Wednesday. There are eighteen cases for the criminal sittings, against ten persons on chaige of forgery, five burglary, two perjuiy, and one imie-ceut assault. An application fora change of venue, in Hall's case will be made to-morrow. Mr C. P. Hnlbert, nuyorm 1884, mentioned a3 a provable candidate for Heathcote.

BLENHEIM, Tuesday. Archdeacon Butt died last night, at the age of 70 years. He came to the Bay of Islands as one of Bishop Selwyns laymissii ners early in the forties, his medical oainiig b^iny of great service to the Maoris and Europeans. He was ordained, md settled iv Nelson in 1843, and came to Wairau in 1857. He leaves two sons (one being Assistant Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, at Auckland) and two daughters (all married) and a widow, is the daughter of the Rev. Richard Davis, a verj p early missionary.

DUNKDIN, Wednesday. The Hon. Mr Ballance left for the North this morning with Mr McKerrow, Surveyor General, having been recalled to attend to business in Wellington. It appears that another attempt is to be made to work the Caswell Sound marble quarries. An application came before the Waste Lauds Board by Mr McLean, of Wellington, for the lease of 500 acres with the right of purchase at the end of five years, but consideration was adjourned. An atrempt is to be made to form a new com* pany to be floated in London and purchase a steamer, and bring out a number jf skilled men to work the quarries. The chairman of the Fire Underwriters' Association waited on the Premier to ask that in all cases of fire it should be mandatory that an official enquiry be held. It is believed beneficial results would ensue. The Premier referred the association to the Minister of Justice.

THAMES, Wednesday. Hugh Plummer, manager of the Low Level Prospecting Tunnel at Tapu was '-nought up from that place last evening, suffering from the effects of an accident whilst putting in a hole ior a shot. He was tamping the hole, and had about six inches in when, by some unaccouutable means, it exploded, inflicting some nasty scalp wounds as well as lacerating the arm and left thigh. The little finger of the right hand is missing, and the face and eyes are severely burned. He was conveyed from Tapu, a distance of 14 miles, by his mates in a boat, and landed at Tararu, thence to the hospital on a stretcher. Plummer is in a very precarious condition. He has lost the use of his right eye. A meeting of the shareholders of the Thames River Steam Navigation Company was held to day, when a resolucioa was passed that the company be volun'aiily wound up Messrs Gillespie, Reushaw, and Bagnall were appoiuted liquidators.

INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. An extraordinary suicide is reported from Otautiu. A boy named David Morton, age-1 10 years, hung himself in a shed adjoining lvs father's property at Wmhola. Ever since Crow, a neighbour, hung himself at Makerewa a few weeks ago. the boy has been doiug his best to imitate him, with the above result

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