TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1362, 19 July 1886, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, July 19.

Reply postcards will be introduced tomorrow.

It is announced that the result of the polling on the Government Insurance Association proposals will be in favor of handing the business back to the Government. The poll will be declared at eight o'clock to-night.

The Governor has invited both Houses of Legislature to meet him this afternoon, and discuss the Tarawera relief question.! Freebody, who was sentenced to two years last session, for being concerned in the Wairarapa cattle stealing case, will be released this afternoon. The matter was lelt by Ministers in the hands of the Governor, who has seen fit to order a remission of the sentence.

AUCKLAND, July 19.

On arriving in the United States, Beid, Faby, and Mendoza will make a iortnal demand to the Government for payment of the expenses entailed upon them in New Zealand by the legal proceedings undertaken against them at the instance of the American Consul.

Professor Hutton arrived in Auckland on Saturday night from the lake country with Professor Brown. He considers that volcanic action is gradually aying out, and believes that vegetation will grow over the deposit at Wairoa, and make the district again inhabitable. The Petrel ease, in which Captain Reid and Foley (the mate) were charged with murder, is concluded. The 8.M., as commissioner tinder the Extradition Act, held that the charges had not been sustained, and discharged the prisoners. Eleanor Bryce, an unmarried woman of middle age, cut her throat with a razor at the North Shore this niorniDg. Sue had shown signs of mental aberration. She will probably recover. The police decline to prosecute in the case of the sale of cancerous beef, as no offence is disclosed under the by-law, the meat not being " exposed for sale," but disposed of wholesale. BLENHEIM, July 16. A tour-roomed cottage and contents was burned down on Saturday night, The house belonged to Costello, and was insured for £100 ; -furniture belonging to Marmion, tenant, insured for J7s— both in Standard.

Mr. W. Button, was duly elected to-day for the vacant Beat in the Boroagh Council, unoppoMdi

" Rough on Corns." — Ask for Wells' "Rough on Corns." Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions, Felton, Grimwade & Co., Agents, Welling ton.— Advt. 1

" Rough on Rats " clears out rats, mice beetleß,roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects moles, jack-rabbits, gophers. Felton, Grimwade & Co., Agents, Wellington. — Advt 1

Skinny Men. — " Wells' Health Eenewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Debility. At druggists, Felton, Grimwade & Co., Agents, Wellington. — Advt. 1

The Tidy Housewife. — The careful, tidy housewife, when giving her house its spring cleaning, should bear in mind that the dear inmates are more precious than houses, their systems need cleansing, by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels, and she should know that there is nothing that will do it so surely as American Co's Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all medicines. Bead. — Advt.

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