TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1749, 8 October 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

— ♦ fpRF.BB ASSOCTAIION.) WELLINGTON, October 7. Some of the leaseholders in the block bnrned down in February decline to build on their present leases, which aie held from the corporation ; neither nre they prepared to surrender the leases. Ad appeal has been made to the City Council, who have appointed a committee to deal with the matter. Unless an arrangement can be come to there seems every probability of the block remaining a blank tor a long time to come. Sir R. Stout states that he is not going to Melbourne as announced by some journals with reference to proposed alterations in the Midland Railway contractor. It is stated that the company wish with them in order to inspire confidence on the Stock Exchange. Their own representatives are quite satisfied with the valuable nature of the concessions, Mr. Brodie Hoare having stated that the forest block around Lake Brunner would in itself pay the whole cost of the line. Half of this block the company get in alternate sections, and the timber royalty alone is estimated to be worth iJIO ao acre. For the other land the company have already been offered £1 per acre. It is believed that the discrepancy in time of meeting of the House on Tuesday need not cause any difficulty as the commissioners will simply announce that His Excellency's speech has been postponed. AUCKLAND, October 7. Mr. Dargaville was sued at the R.M. Court yesterday for a claim of £5, balance of an account of £10 alleged to be owing for services rendered by W. Hodge in the Auckland West election of 1884. Hodge had acted as scrutineer, and it was deposed in evidence that £5 was the general pay in that office. Plaintiff was nonsuited. NEW PLYMOUTH, October 8. The wife of Mr. Henry Scotland, M.L.C., died this morning, at the age of 72 years. AUCKLAND, October 8. At the inquest on the dead child found near Thistle Hotel, a verdict was given that it died from hemorrhage or suffocation at the time of birth, but whether with felonious intent or not, there was no evidence to show.