GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 86, 12 April 1894, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

♦ ( Our Own Correspondent. ) Palmkbston Noh-ih, This Dat. Tho members of the Borough Counoil prccoe'dtd to Awapuni-yesterday and inspected tho damage doi c to Mr. A. S Baker a proporty by tho Awapuni lagoon, f* which Mr. Baker claims .£750 damages. Th*> Council tnot again in tho evening and ooneiderod the matter in oommittee. It mecta again on Tuesday, when probably its decision will be known. UN11KI) PKESB ASSOCIATION. | Dunedin, 11th April. The Waipori farmers claim .£5BOO compensation for converting the Waipori into a sludge channel. Mining operations on tho river have been suspended. The Key. A. P. Davidson, who has resigned the position of assistant minister of Knoi Churon, and returns to Sootland, was to-night presented wiih a silver salver and a parse of 5U sovereigns by tho ladies of tho congregation. This lUy. Three five-roomed cottages at Muenclburgh wore burned down yesterday aftarnoou. One was occupied by Hodgos, a carpenter, ar.d another by George Capstick, a Times employe 1 , and tho third vas u:itenanted Tho properties belong to tho Bank of New Zealand Ks tides Company, and were insured for .£5OO in tho Zealand InHurano Uflico, tlie nnoconpied ono boinjr ooverei by a policy in the North tietun Office for .£5OO. iNVEßCiiiain, 11th April W. J. Atkin«ou, a settler, has been ai rested on a cbargo of setting firo to a house at Urovo Bu-li on the Bth January, with intent to defraud two insurance companies. Au< kland, Tuts Dat. Oyor 20 tatnilien have arrived from Australia, for the Onchuuga Ironworks, which aro to bo worked by a syndicate Christciiurcit, This DAr. At T.ylteHpn yesterday, Ada I'iuma Flavell was fiued 20s and co?ts for BiifniDg a declaration for a claim to vote when she was under the age of 21. Grbymouth, This Dat. Tenders aro invited for tho Cobde'n-Port Elizabeth Kailw^y. Mr. E. T. Eoli ;bon. Inspector, of Schools, died this morning 1 . He hojd been ill for, a month.