TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1305, 12 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per united peess association.)

WELLINGTON, May 11. Captain Fukushimas and some df the officers of the Japanese warship Tusubka came ashore to-day, and paid their respects to his Excellency the Governor. She remains about ten days; and then proceeds to Fiji and Honolulu, and will probably return here about October.

AUCKLAND, May 12. An attempt to fire a large block of buildings at Devonport was made last night. The fire started at the premises of GatTard; a shoemaker, but was suppressed by neighbors. Garrard is uninsured. A deposit of bags, kerosene, and sulphur was found under the house*

CHEISTCHURCH, May 12. At the meeting of the Presbytery, a resolution was passed thanking the Premier for his exhaustive reply to the Auckland and Cliristchurch Presbyteries re tbe New Hebrides. 1 DUNEDIN, May 12. At Lawrence Chinese were fined sups ranging from ±'20 to i-30 for playing j fan- tan. | At the statutory meeting of the City Council dissatisfaotion was expressed with the balance-sheet, especially with the gas department, which snowed no profit. The overdraft is beyond legal limit, but it was decided not to raise a loan to reduce it. Instead of that, it was resolved to economise in every department. A very heavy north-easter has been blowing nearly all day, and, while entering tbe harbor, the Wareatea (sic) was struck by a heavy sea, which broke on board, and smashed the skylights of the saloon, and flooded the cabio. At the annual meeting of the trustees and executors of the Agency Company, the balance sheet showed a net profit of j?461. A dividend of four per cent, was paid.