TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5204, 26 April 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands held a sale of .sections this afternoon at the old Provincial Council Chamber. The first offered were sections immediately next the borouf'h -.—Section frill, £il, W. Hendcr- «,„; .section fi.'SO, £U,-W. Henderson; section CM, £10, Mr West; section 032, £10 Mr West; Section C 33, i'fO, Mr West ; section 63-i, £10, Mr West. The balance were passed in. Sections i-.fc Western S,,i t : _Seetion 83, £16, Mr Lyndon ; seoiwn 8-1, £15, Mr Lyndon ; section 85, £20, Mr Ivfo-'h ; sections 80 to 107 were passed in- section 108, £10, Mr Sims; section 109, £10, Mr Sims; section 110, £10, Mr Cross. The balance were passed in.

Mr W. Bogle, houornry Koeretary to Bush Fires Relief Fund, has rccc}.v*d .a telegram from the Treasury, stating that tht Government had decided to give £300 to the fund.

in consequence of tho Wairoa steamer not being .able, to leave owing to tie southerly, and juany of the suitors being also detained, Ci»p(*us Precce, R.M., has adjourned the sitting of the Wajroa Court to Wednesday, ;iOth May- Tho unimportant cases would be dealt with to-day by tWO jUMtil.-l.'S.

A sjicciiil bank holiday is advertised to be observed by the Union Bank, the Bank of AuHtralasiu, and the Bank of New Zealand, on May Ist, ittWaipawa and 'Waipukurau. Why the Ist of Mity should be kept as n holiday by tho.se. three Hanks—unless it is iv honor of Ht. Chin'noy Sweep.—we do not know. "While tho Bunks are asleep the people are at work.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency (limited) have received the following cablegram from their liondon office, dated 20th iiibtant: —" Wool--Tho sales progress firmly, and the market is firmer for superior sireasy and coarse- i-rossbred ; other desuriptions are unchanged. The total quantity catalogued to date w 192,000 bales, and iS.OOO bales have been withdrawn." TJV" Coptic left Rio for London on Saturday law. The Rio letc /,!.r,,yniouth last night for Napiei".