TELEGRAMS. [ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. [ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

i Auckland, sth November. ¦ Tho City Council has adoptod a scheme of ; retrenchment involving a Baying of £13,00 C i a-year. Tho caso of aged discharged stonebreakors is to be subsequently considered. It is Btated that a party of Canterbury . special settlors are coming to the north of Auckland, on the terms of the village settlei ment scheme, to engage in fruit culture. The anniversary of the Robert Burns . Club was held last night, and passed ofi successfully. I Dunedin, sth November. : There is every prospect of the Kaitangata I strike being settled. Mr. Paulra, C.E., loft Dunedin to-day, and ¦ leaves the Bluff to-morrow in the schooner i Rosa, on a prospecting tout of the distriote 1 in tho neighbourhood of Big Bay. He has a i party of eight with him, and they intend to be away six months. This Day. Tho Phconix returns at Skipper's aro 430 • ounces for tho month's crushing. ' Christchurch, This Day. Tho telegraph chess match, Canterbury v. ' Otago, was resumed laßt night. Somo time 1 after midnight Canterbury had won Boven • games and Otago two. Hookham, at 1 a.m., 1 offered to continue playing Hay till 5 o'clock. 1 Hay offered to draw but Hookham declined, 1 ana Hookham could not get a further ans wet 1 to his telegrams. | New Plymouth, This Day. Tho charge of smuggling watchos, being ', part of a salvage stock brought out by an ' immigrant, occupied tho Police Court twe [ days, and was nnishod this morning. It , resulted in Mr. Jones, tho defendant, being fined £25. ; Invercargill, This Day. Mr. F. M. Dawson's store at Pukorau, neai i Goro, was burned down. Nothing was saveo ' but the books. Tho stock was insured foi • £500 in tho Now Zealand office and £500 ii . tho South British, which had £200 reinsurec . jn the New Zealand.