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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 145, 23 June 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

— ♦ I UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION. I Auckland. 22nd June. The quarantine keeper refused to lumigate the mails per City of New York withoat the presence of the Post Offico officers, and the letters only arrived in town thiB afternoon The steamer's passengers are grumbling terribly at being- quarantined. Messrs. Dargavillo and Shepherd Smith, the general manager of the Bank of New South Wale 3, are making the best of ib. The former sent for a gun and ammunition from Auckland for shooting on the island. The Auckland cargo has been lauded, and sprinkled with carbolic acid. Dtjnedin, 22nd June. TWdich's store in the North East Valley, was burnt down this morning. The building ■was insured in the Sonth British for £150. Tho loss is .£250 over the insurance. At the inquest on the body of M'Ehenny, killed on the tram line, a verdict of accidental death was returned. No blame is attached to the driver. Sir Julius Vogel has presented a South African diamond, imbeded in clay, to the Otago Mus.um, and in his letter expresses a hope that it will be shown on tho West Coast and at the Thames, where he understands diamonds are hkoly to be found. Ashcroft's pateub qnarjbz crusher is being tested at tho local exhibition. It is well spoken of by persons interested in that class of mining. The Vinegar Hill claim, St. Bathans, has yielded .£lOO per man per month for eighteen months. Tho Land Board to-day expressed concurrence in the views of the Government as to the disposal of the Otago runs, regarding which a letter was received last week. Dr. Hector has been appointed commissioner for the Dunedin Exhibition by the Government. He arrived to-day. This Dat. George Walsh, aged three, an inmate of the Industrial School, has been poisoned by drinking carboiic acid. In'VERCARGILL, 22nd June. The sea is still at intervals casting ashore bodies of tho-.e drowned in the Tararna. Constable >eeston, who is stationed at Waipapapa, reports that on tho 12th he found the bo'ly of a man almost naked, fingers and features gone, and no marks that could lead to identification. 'On the 16th th« body of a woman was found on the beach, but although it has suffered more than the other it is supposed to be that of the wife of Denz, one of the crew of the ill-fated ship, one of the breasts being considerably larger than the other, which is stated to have been the o&se with Mrs. Denz. This Dat. Mr. Waterston, a local shipowner, is making arrangements to run a fleet of schooners from Melbourne to Invercargill Jetty direct. Christchttrch, This Dat. Ploughing matches, which had been discontinued in most districts, are this year being generally revived. A new public hall is to be erected by a company in Christchurch, capable of holding 1100 persons. On Mond'iy the beach was searched carefully for bodies from the wreck of the Pakeha, without success. It ii presumed they have been buried in tho sand.