GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 4, 6 January 1897, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

»—.» —. [pbess association.] Auckland, sth January. A fire broke out on the Kaihu-Hokianga road, burning Mr. Speck's new building; another settler, Mr. Collins, also had his new dwelling destroyed. The newly-fallen bush is all ablaze. A temporary slab bridge was destroyed, thus stopping through traffic until re-erected. Gisboene, sth January. Bush and grass fires are prevalent throughout the district, and numbers of settlers report losses. A well-dressed man, who stated his name as Friend Horatio Sawyer, gave himself up to the police for having issued valueless cheques to the amount of about £60 to various tradespeople. He appeared to be of weak intellect, and was remanded for treatment. Henry Mills, cook of the barque Lutterworth, was fined £2, or two days' imprisonment, for disobeying orders. A quantity of moa bones have been found in the Marumaru caves, near Wairoa. Dunedin, 6th January. The body of James Anderson, a young man who has been missing from Kaitangata lor a few days, was found in the Clutha River to-day.