INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 96, 19 June 1877, Page 2

INT ERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.) Auckland June, 15. The schooner Coronet brought the machinery for the New Copra oil mill. Some of the principal merchants have formed an association to work the venture. A base of typhoid fever has occured in the house of Mrs. Crowe, Hobson street. Precautionary measures have been adopted. The Onehunga residents have abandoned the proposal to form an artillery corps, Dr. Pollen stating that there are no guns available. The residents propose to form a volunteer engineer corps. June .16. Chas. Rowley, Ehames prospector, is still missing. He is now generally believed to be the person whose drowned cries were heard on the wharf on Tuesday night. The steam tug Lionel while crossing the Manakau Bar broke her propeller on

the hank, and was' in imminent danger. She sailed back to Onehunga. An explosion occured last night in the Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s officers, which was caused by a clerk named Hosking entering a room in the upper floor with a lighted match after an escape of gas. Hosking was slightly injured. The glass from the windows was blown across the street. Grahamstown, June 15. Moanatairi's have come down in price again, the directors having decided to revert to the plan of working laid down before the run of gold was come upon, instead of immediately taking out the rich block. The management is freely criticised in terms the reverse of complimentary. Wellington, June 15. Charles Grey, confectioner, who was arrested last night under the Fraudulent Debtors' Act was brought up this morning and remanded till Monday. It is said a strong case will be made out against him for having removed a quantity of goods not discovered to the trustee of the estate, and that the creditors are determined to carry on the prosecution. Thomas Daly, fireman on board the Hinemoa, was found drowned at Te Aro Beach this morning. He was last seen alive at ten o'clock last night, somewhat under the influence of liquor. An inquest will be held to-morrow. June 16 The Wauganui natives have turned back some of the Government surveyors, on the block of native land at Murimotu taken away their chains and insturments and struck their tents. The surveyors are now on their way back to Wanganui. Dunedin, June 15. A house belonging to a German named Kowski was burned down at Mornington yesterday. It was insured in the National for £100; Ers Kowski and three children had a narrow escape of being burned. Two men named Taylor and Merton, were seriously hurt at the Blue Spur yesterday, by a blast going off unexpectedly.