GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1899, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

♦ [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland. 26th January. The Auckland Industrial Exhibition will be finally closed on 18th February. Timaeu, 26th January. A closer examination of the hatches picked up by the dredge, and which it was feared came from the ship Timaru, shows that they have been in the water some weeks, aud some small barnacles are growing on them. They are also declared to be steamer hatches, and from their condition are probably from the Elginshire wreck. A puzzle appears in one being deeply charred" all over the under surface. This one is marked " C.U.V11." Dunedin, 26th January. At the Police Court to - day Joseph Braitbwaite was charged under the Offeusive Publications Act, 1892, with selling printed matter, to wit the Melbourne Weekly Budget, of an indecent nature. Mr. Graham, S.M., dismissed the information, holding that the defendant had not a guilty knowledge of the advertisement complained of in the newspaper. He was firmly of opiuion that it was the very class of advertisement which the Act was designed to put down. New Plymouth, 26th January. A fire in Brougham-street this afternoon completely gutted the top portion of a twostory building occupied by Mr. Austin, a bootmaker, and Falkner and Humphries, wine and spirit merchants. It took threequarters of an hour to get the fire under. Insurances— Buildings (owned by Mr. Halcombe), £900 in the Commercial Union; Austin's stock £200, machinery £130, and furniture £20 in the Sun office ; Falkner and Humphries's stock, £400 in the Sun. None of the stocks were damaged by fire, but the water spoilt much of Austin's. Auckland, This Day. Mr. Stichbury, Chairman of the Hospital Board, and Mr. John M'Leod, a member of the original Jubilee Committee, have obtained an injunction against the handing over of the surplus funds of the military tournament to the Queen's Statue Committee till a case as to the disposal of the funds comes on for hearing at the civil sittings of the Supreme Court on 22nd February, Dunedin, This Day. The Harbour Board has granted the use of one of its tugs for an experimental trawling trip. Nelson, This Day. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a motion was carried unanimously urging the desirability of continuing the present Vancouver mail service, as being beneficial to the whole colony. [oub own correspondent.] Mastebton, This Day. The parishioners of St. Patrick's, Masterton, have presented Father Long with an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns on the eve of his departure for Ireland after fifteen years' residence in the colonies, the latter portion in the Wairarapa.