TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2328, 17 January 1893, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(PER PBESJ3 ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, January 17. The committee appointed to select booki for the public library, after 41 meetings, havo drawn up a list, comprising 4400 work* contained in 6300 volumes. The amount voted was £2250. The city council will be advised to adopt the list And call tenders at next meeting for tbe •apply. INVEBOABGILL, January 17. The jury returned a verdiot oi wilful murder against the woman Byrne, who drowned her infant last week by jumping from the jetty. ; , DUNEDIN, January 17. William Byrnes, contractor, has been ~. kffledbyafaUofgray«l. '-1 . NAPIEE, January 17. * '■- Bidey and Lockie's large ironmongery -store. Hastings-street, was gattsd by a firfr-wbich broke out between 6 and 7 p.m., ""just after the proprietors bad left; every°'lhfag was then all right. The Masonic -Hotel and National Bank were in consi- ," derable danger, and there was fear that some powder . might oxplode. All th» stock was burned- or spoiled ; value, £8000. Inßurance^-ij6450 on stock and £1000 on the building.

r Prom Eaßtem Asia comes a plant the '•'flowers of whioh contain a quantity of jttioe that rapidly turns blaok or deep purple on exposure to air. It is need by " Chinese women for dyeing their hair and •yebrows, and in Japan for blacking shoep t ' Te Kooti,. the Poverty Bay murderer, is in mortal fear le3t he sbouia be Bhot while on his visit, and will not see Maori ' br European. Tbe following notice is • Btuok up on the fence near his pa :— 11 Notice. — Ho every European who wishes to see Te Kooti. Friendß, we no allow ■ anybody to see him, exoept the Government man, bat if be cornea by himself without tbe Government policeman such • person or persons not accepted. By order • of Te Committee." When tbe policeman • Sid pasß with some Europeans tbe wizened old Maori made himself invisible. ■ The Canterbury PreßS states: — The - Canterbury Frozen Meat Company has just concluded a contraot with tbe -New Zealand Shipping Company and •Bhaw, Savill and Albion Company for tbe carriage of meat from Lyttelton to London. Tbe new contract '■ Oootains some important concessions to the shippers of frozen meat, the prinoipal of whioh is as follows ;— The freight is to be Id per lb all the year round instead of 1£ in summer and i Q wiotsr, as hitherto, and all freight is to be paid in London, thus saving shippers the cost of insurance and exchange on the freight. Tbe Freezing Company have also determined to nuke a reduction on their lastyear's charges for freezing and shipment. Lamb wiil be reduced from id to fd, and mutton from fa to -|d less 15 per cent. The bags will be 3d per carcase in each case. The fall effeofc of tbe combined rednotion in the charge for freezing and freight, will be to make the total charges, freezing, freight and selling in . London on mutton about , l?d per lb, as against 2d last year, and on lamb about 2d as against 2fd last Summer. "KEATING'S POWDER" destroys Bugs. Fleas, Moths, Beetle?, and all other inieote, -whilst quite harmless to domestic animals. In. exterminating Beetles the •access of thi& powder is extraordinary. It is perfectly clean in application. See the article you purchase is "Keating's," 'as imitations are noxious and ineffectual. Sold in tins, 6d, Is, and 2s 6d each, by all hemists. Subscribe to tf . Z. edition of London TITBITS. Published byMcKee'.ft Gamble fc^tallitapfflii. We clip fine following Important test* toonial worn the " Illawarra'* Mercury* (K.S."W.) V on the 80th March. It needs no comment; i — " Mr. John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that after •offering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relict by lifting Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. He says seeing the said Extract ulvettised in the "Ulawarra Mercury/ his intense, fluttering induced him to obtain » bottle of the medicine from Mr. Hosking, chemist, of^jjilown, and that the vie of it gave him great relief at once. * ■ He stAtei that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained tha first bottle of th« extract *nd on the 19th, the use of that medicin* jpntinued to afford him relief, to which U had been a stranger for four years. ♦Mr liOTeday writes also that he has found th< Eucalypti Extract ft cure for rheumatism M,well aa gravel. He requests us to pub •ttih this information through the " Mer rary." • TVe have much pleasure in complying with. Mr. Loveday's request, whos< word cannot be doubted, and who can havt •o object in view other than a pure desin ■4 b«nafit suffering nunuu)ity."-<-Advb