SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1899, Page 5

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

(By Telegraph —Press Association.)

WESTPORT, this day,

Dr. Gaze, who is connected with the Alelbourne boot trunk tragedy, is wellknown in various parts of New Zealand. He practised in Westport several years.

The week's coal export was: Westport. Coal Co., 4570 tons 14 cwt; Cardiff Co., 719 tons 17 cwt.

WELLINGTON, this day.

An exceptionally heavy thunderstorm was experienced in the Alanawatu district yesterday afternoon. A stable in town was struck by lightning and the front of the building destroyed. No further damage in the district is yet reported. It is now raining heavily, and it is expected heavy loss will result to farmers whose crops are not yet harvested.

It is now raining again heavily

In Wairarapa the fall was phenomenal. It began with a thunderstorm at 2 p.m. yesterday. Four and threequarter inches of rain were recorded, and it is still raining.

At Alasterton there is no sign of the weather clearing.

At Fetone, only seven miles from Wellington, the rainfall recorded -was only 2.30 inches. The judgment of the Appeal Court m the Bank of New Zealand v. Fleming was in favour of the bank, Judge Denniston dissenting. The case was one in which the respondent recovered damages £2,000 against the bank at Invercargill for the dishonouring of certain cheques, with costs on the highest scale. An application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council was adjourned. The s.s. Takapuna was delayed by the weather, and only reached here from Lyttelton at 3.45 a.m. She left again at eight o'clock for Auckland, but no passenger list is available. Mr Brinkman, handicapper of the Wellington Trotting Club, has resigned his position, givingl as a reason that the form of some North Island trotters was more than he could understand, and he did not think he could do himself justice or obtain satisfactory results. GISBORNE. this day. The barquentine River Hunter, bound from Gisborne to Mercury Bay, is three weeks out to-day, and her protracted passage is causing concern. REEFTON, Friday. John Mitchell was arrested last night on two charges of having an interest, in an illicit still in Milky Gully, in October last, and in a still found recently in connection with which a man named Jennings was convicted. Accused was remanded. GREYMOUTH, Sunday. There was a tremendous fall of rain all last night, but it did not materially affect the rivers. Coal exports for the week: Blackball, 1323: Bruuner Co., 1976.