GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 49, 26 August 1895, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

[f BIBS ASSOCIATION. | Lttixlton, 25th August. As the steamer Hauroto waa coming alongside this morning she collided with the wharf, and ran her stem 10ft into the woodwork. A. oouple of the plates of the steamer were dented in, bnt beyond that she escaped injury. A large nnooonpied building at Governor's Bay, until recently used as the White Cliff* Hotel, was burned down last night. Insurance, New Zealand offioe, .£4OO. Auckland. 25th August. Mr Brewer, ohiof officor of the Talcapuna, is recovering after having undergone a vary painful operation to his neolc. Dr. Erion is very hopeful of hia recovery. Gbbtmouth, 25th August. Heavy rain put the river in high fresh od I Saturday, bac failed to shift the wreok of the Thnrso, which only swung round, coming nearer the fairway, but leaving navigable zoom. She will probably have to be dynamited. The mizzen-mast is gone, but the hull and oargo bold together, representing a dead weight of eight or nine hundred tons. • Dunbdin, Thib Dai. 1 he Agricultural Department has agreed <o the suspension of the Sheep Tax pending consideration of the question by the Cabinet. Donald Jones 'pleaded Guilty at the Supreme Court to-day to breaking and entering a store at North Taieri, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.