Interprovincial Telegrams.

Bruce Herald, Volume x, Issue 957, 13 November 1877, Page 6

Interprovincial Telegrams.

; .■•■;.- ; :i Auoklaki), N«>vember 9. ' A fire occurred in- Abercxombie-street'in a •two-storey • building, : at the -corner *bf ; the block.' The activity of the Brigade aud.; the force of water put it out^ although the biiilding was completely destroyed.' There "was no insurance on if. It was occupied: by: a ; lab<iurer- • whose son has 1 been -arrested •-• on a charge' of arß'>n. butjippiirently there waaTno motive, and the family lost every thing, bare Jy escaping alive, v *.'. . ;• :: ■■■' ■;•; ; ; V Edward Jagger, formerly luspector <>f- the National Insurance Company, haa:been arrested on -a chargeof embezzling money from Mr Mabin, agei>t .of- the -Phqeair office, by whom Jagger ■■ was latterly employed, rHe has been .remanded. Hl3 solicitor said it would prove to be;a?matter of accounts betweed the parties capable of arrangement. , . Gbahamstoww, ■Npyember 10. An old Maori, named Te Pakeroa, was arrested Jast night as a lunatic.,;; This ia the man;. whq accused himself of be>yitching Te Moauauui and causing biadcatb., Meetings have^ been held by : the natives concerning hia conduct,; and at one of. these, held!; at Ohinemuri on Wednesday last, it was ; determined to kill him. A party was told off to do this, and three .men came down this, morning, and fired: about teu shots in tO;Pakeroa'.S'Whare, and he only eßcapedi being murderedvby.jar* rest : last night; The matter . has been^ re» ported to the GoTemmeut. .. • .;; ; ri jk ' . ;\yBLLiNGTQN, l^oyember 10. About 4000 people. attended th« spotts on the.cricket ground yesterday ., The Governor was present. The great ; event of the^day was a seven-mile walkiug-match, between Ed wards, of Wellington, and Bowleyi of Christchurch. Ie was keenly cou tested from the start to the finish. - At the last lap both meu made a desperate, effort, and, finished SO close that the judge ,-gaye it as a.dead Heat, though the crowd generally said that Edwards had won "by a rSKouTderT" Time, 62min. 2secThe schooner Waihopai, from Pelorus Sound, with a cargo of timber, missed. stays yesterday, while beating in 'through --.t the Heads, and drifted on to the l rocks, and has become a total wreck, v - • ■'-■■ : > .-; „, , ,-* 1>^ EI^ 0N » NoVember 9. [ .. H.M!;3, Sappho, received, telegraphic instructions from Commodore Huskins last nig lit to ba ia readiness to proceed to> Samoa with three, months' a horea, on f receipfc, of fuller prdera by steamer from Australia.