TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 108, 31 August 1896, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[By Telegraph.] [Special to Standard.] Auckland, This day. During the past month the Waihi Company treated 2900 tons for a yield of £9BOO. In the preceding four weeks 2970 tons were treated for £9821. Since the beginning of the present year bullion worth £BI,BIB has been won, enabling more than the repayment in dividends of full par value of shares ; while from 1870 to date the output shows the magnificent total of £586,061. Wellington, This day. The following appropriations have been passed by the Cabinet :—Ngaire swamp road, .£6OO ; Waimata road— Awnrua road, £500; Mongoka improved farm, £300; Takapou road, £SOO ; Puketuhi road, £SOO ; Ratatamokia road, £500; Turakina valley road, £600; Omakau Estate road, £6OO ; North Island Trunk Railway, £1000; Lunatic Asylum, Auckland, £IOOO ; Porinxa Asylum, £2OOO. The Cabinet has decided to grant Mrs S. I'rovis, widow of the late Custom-house officer at Napier, compassionate allowance equal to a year's salary. The weather is showery and unfavorable, but it has been decided to go on with the Golf tournament. Dunedin, This day. A fire was discovered at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday in the card-box manufactory department of the Evening Star Company. The fire broke out in the top story at the north end, apparently in the girls' dressing-room. The fire was promptly extinguished, but a good deal of damage was done by water. The building was insured in the Royal Exchange and the South British offices.

An accident occurred at the Iraquiai* station, a little distance beyond Out ram, yesterday morning to a young man named Alex. Munro, 22 years of age, a shepherd by occupation. He had been out on Saturday shooting sheep with a revolver, and on returning laid the weapon down on his bed. Yesterday morning he dressed to go to church, and being rather early he threw himself on the bed again. He had apparently quite forgotten having laid the revolver on |he bed and whisking off the bed clothes the weapon was thrown to the iloor and one chamber was discharged, the ball entering the unfortunate man's groin. Medical assistance was procured from Outram, but on account of the seriousness of the wound the man brought to the Dunedin hospital. Last night the institution was reached, but the man died two hours after.