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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7196, 23 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

r ~* •. . , ■ •'■• '"•£.■>* (PROM OtTB O"WN CORRESPONDENT.)' '.$?& \ Waiboa, Monday. V;f^,§ The bridges on the new piece of road ' j ;!;3{; letween Opoiti and Te Reinga are being - v^f|| iaiahed. The Wairoa«Gisborne road ia ' ' 'Ot) t low opened as a dray road as far as Te -* >\; &| Reinga. There only remains a piece of^'^f^ }ix miles between the latter place and / y^ the Waihau lakes to be formed,: when?: ,f^/"| the road will be completed right through ;, 4. to Gisborne, :- w;,* s i.! A football match between Wairoa and; ), .C'ffi Mohaka wag played at the latter place : ,;-|- : , last Saturday afternoon, and was wbn./;''^ by the former by. a goal to a try. The." % matoh. was played in pouring rain, and > : j^ the ground was in a sloppy state. / •' \],\-^ IjPBB UNITED PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] 'u'^M Auckland, Monday. . ?3 The Melanesian Mission 'barque vk'^ Southern Cross arrived here today fronpif :; ,/i a three mouths' cruise in the New^^ 1 Hebrides, Santa Cruz, Solomon, '■Noit-'-'Pc'-U folk, and other islands. Every thing -y. ?r was quiet at the islands that were . Tiaited. . y: The Auckland Parliamentary Union v.yi. was formally opened by Sir Frederick-, •'}■ Whitaker to-night. There was a good attendance of members, and many ladies \ ; were present. ; : The proprietors of the New Zealapd'-'y} Herald have purchased from Mr George ' ;■ * ; Augustus Sala the right for New-Zea-.V-7& land of hia Australian and New Zealand y.'' •":■ letters. . . , X 'S* Nb"W Plymouth, Monday. - • •. '-;:-: Inspector Pardy returned to town', -y; about 11 o'clock this morning. <Her-lf| says he and Constable Ryan had a ■very!-*--;?.'; narrow escape, and if it' had not been i for a projecting rook and an overhang- -„\ ing tree they would have been drowned. ;V| J Constable Ryan has "recovered and is \;i; able to resume his duty. At Parihaka :i£ the ri?er runs along by Pangarehu and .; ! ?v3 is a very treacherous stream, and had' 1^ been much swollen by the rains. v V* f Wellington, Monday; v ' ' > A preliminary meeting of representa; '■: \\ tives of foreign fire insurance companies £^ was held thia morning to consider '-'tficpcfi-. proposed Government bill dealing- witKsM/f insurance companies. It was respired "-P VJ_ 5 to adjourn the meeting and > invite- the :'j I attendance to-morrow of representative.! j" ; ',% of colonial companies as well. ; W(fIn replying to a, letter from the V^el^'V J lington-Manawatu Railway Company,. C asking that the agreement between them w and the Government for taking over the -^l line be withdrawn,' the Minister fotVfS Public Works has accepted the prd-;^,^ posal, and has intimated to the company that should at any time negotiations be}!^: resumed they will not be on such fatbt-X;^ able terms to the company as before. -• v;%fi i The following are the assessors *6ps,vi.: pointed for the. Hawke's Bay property/ It assessment district : — G. Grant and Oi.'.'-S"' W. Ferris, for Giabome ; J. dollinge^-;'^ for Hastings; J.Lyon^ 0. D. Ke^hedyJ ifji W. Ellison, and E. Williams, j;| Napier.- '" . ■!;■'-'';• A private meeting of shareholders : in ;^< the Wellingtdn-Manawatu Eailway:':^ Company was held to-day. About 25j'(ti shareholders were present. Mr J. '38.5^:4 Nathan, Chairman of the Board,, 'was^^ in the chair, and after alluding to the, '^ negotiations which had been going ',pn; : :¥ with the Government' for the Bale of the \ -;y line, he. explained the nature of feo'^v communication received from the Lon-- >, | don Bourd of directors. The latter V 'yi were greatly opposed to the tale of the v ;^ line to the Government, and saw no '; -.'^ difficulty in Raising the required; adi-v^f ditional capital of £200,000. WtlatiS they suggested was that in terms i of the> r^ resolution already passed the nominal vfi capital of the 'company should be' in* tS oreased by the iißue of 40,000 ney? )>i , shares, to be offered, pro rata amongst ■ p.\ the existing shareholders. The ' Ebiir -"-'>■; don directors stated that the Lonir -i ■"-. don shareholders' would ' take "u^^ 1 ' 25,000 of these, Bhares, and the other ;.' £160,000 could be raised by debenture^' ;^ the full sum being completed bj, the '■''[ colonial shareholders taking , ! up :. 15,000 new shares. Satisfaction;/ was expressed by those present at the , prospect this opened up to the company ' of carrying the enterprise through to .t.j completion. Some 6000 shares were at '•; >. once subscribed for in ths room, in the , ; proportion of two-fifths of new shares /,* to old ones, and assurances were 'given; that if required this 'proportion would,. • be considerably increased. The direo-': J \ tors will probably be able to cable to i., London to-morrow or next day that the '•.<.'. required conditions have been complied with. ' ' - > . --•' " ' ; , The mails by the Aorangi, 260 bags, -■'', leave Port Chalmers for Lyttelton by ■". the^ Penguin this afternoon, and will reaoh here on Wednesday forenoon. : The Aorangi leaves at once for Auckland, which is really her- first port^. she \ having called off Port Chalmers merely . for the purpose of landing the mails. The Kaikoura arrived at Plymouth*' in 37 days 9 hours from Lyttelton, , arid, „ notwithstanding she was three days late .'. ■ in leaving, she delivered her mails a ' day in advance of her time-table date. This is the fastest passage on record. Blenheim, Monday; A dastardly outrage was committed on Saturday. A half-pound flask of powder was found in the clapper bellows • at Mr Nicholas's blacksmith's forge. ; " ; The flask was full, and holes were cut. \ !; in it in suoh a way that the 'flames from ':■■ the forge must have reaohed the powder. ' . . '. It was discovered on JNicholas going fo' "~ light the fire. The police are on the v track of the offender, and hope to be , able to briag him to justice. . HoiifiTiKA, Monday.. ' , . Several smart shocks of earthquake ;!;■ were felt here yesterday. The motion was from east to west. Mr Gloßsop's hotel on the town belt , was burnt down yesterday morning. •';• The inmates barely escaped with their clothes. The insurances are as follows ?— lmperial, £300 ; Fire Insurance , Association, £200. " "' Ohbtstchukch, Monday. Mr S. O. Parr left for Wellington this afternoon in Order to deliver to the Government his official report on the introduction of salmon ova into the' colony, and also to attend to other matters connected with acclimatisation. .. Dunedin, Monday. The following is Btated to.be the result of the poll for the eleotionof a member to represent the Sputhern Maori electoral district :— Pratt, 147; Paratini, 104; , Tikai, 94. The official declaration is likely, to take > place at Kaiapoi on Wednesday. ■, !. . ' At a meeting ihis evening of policy-holders in the Government Life Insurance Association about 80 persons were present. • A motion was carried ' that the best interests of the ' association' C» would be consorved and its welfaia S promoted by the appointment of /thY» tf local boards contemplated by the Act. s"^ There were about 17 dissentients. -. ' V. \ ■■ *■}