TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1666, 4 July 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

j (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) [ PALMERSTON NORTH, July 4. In the football match Wanganui versus Mnnawatu, on Saturday, Wanganni was victorious by two points to nil. t WOODVILLE, July 4. Beckerton's theatre and hotel and I McGrath's billiard room were totally destroyed by fire on Sund-iy morning. 3 Tho insurances are about i'3ooo. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 4. 1 A trial smelting oi iron sand has proved 5 successful, and a company is to be formed t to work the affair. Several deaths have occurred from t measles iv Pnnhaka, and it is feared that } the contagions disease will spread, as alien j tribes have left for various hapus. i AUCKLAND, July 1. I A perFon representing himself as Hon. > G. N. Cnrzon, member for Soutliport, ' England, was expelled from the Northern 1 Club, having failed to establish his f identity. t AUCKLAND, July 4. 5 A body found in the harbor is believed to point to a case of suicide. ' A deputation of the Seamen's Union j waited on Donald and Edenborough to i prutest against tlie proposed employment 3 of native labor in working the steamer • Richmond in ihe South Sea Island trade. . The reply was that native labor was much ; more suitable than Emopean for the > Island trade. J GISBORNE, July 4. 1 The libel case Brassey v. Poverty Bay • Herald was finibhed on Saturday night, 5 at 11.30, with judgment for defendants 1 with costs on the highest scale. The \ Jintion was for .£IOOO for accusing Wil. j loughby Brassey, solicitor, of improper 1 conduct. GREYMOUTH, July 4. 1 On the receipt of a telegram from the ' Under-Secretary for the Colony, several 5 Chinamen who arrived l>y the Koranni • were examined by the health officer, as it 5 is known that they were with the passengers on the vessel on which small pox had broken out in Sydney. All have been isolated, except four who had gone up c country. Alt appear robust in health, but they will be under surveillance for the » germs of disease. DUNEDIN, July 1. i At a meeting of creditors of Mr. G. Joachim to-day, the bankrupt explained i that he had filed on account of his liabilities as a shareholder in the British 5 New Zealand Mortgage Coa.pany, He, , had paid i' 2400 iv shares, and was liable . for nearly £10,000. His losses had been r made on property, and included i'3ooo in ! Lees- street, £4000 on Te Anau, and £2100 on the Minaret runs, £1000 on other property, and £1300 on Westport Coal Company shares. The bankrupt was allowed his furniture.