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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 2, 28 November 1877, Page 2

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[PER PRESS ASSOCUTIO>f.] We^ino rox, No?em.ber 27. Tha Superintendent of the Cable Company at Sydney notifies that the steamer Duke ot Edinburgh, was repairing the Singapore and Ratavia cables, when the line steamer left Bangawongie o,n the }4lh. The Edinburgh may, however, be ex» pectod at Port Parwin about tho end of the month. The Torres Strait mail steamer yeaches Townarille {\st telegraph station) on the 2aih. Kapieh, November 27. The amount collected for the Indian Famine at Hawke'3 Bay was £147. Subsoriptions are still coming in. Ch^istchciich, l^ovemlicr 27. Arthur Von Pollintz, former Cm-ntor of the Acclimatisation Society was charged with embezzling its funds. The evidence showed that he made away with the live stock of the society, but his counsel con* tended the society had no lrgal standing and it is expected prisoner will get off on that point. Decision was reserved. We&Wngton, November 37. A fire oocured at the Hutt to* day. A bootshop store belonging to Mr M 4 Ken«. aie. No oue was on the premises. Stock was insured for £2000 in the Liverpool, Xjondon, and (ilobe office, Palmebsiown, November 27. Fire occurred here to-day in J. H. Suelson'a house. The fire was got under before the building was entirely destroyed. Probable loss— £2000; £400, in South British ; £630 in Victoria, and heavily in Liverpool and London, though the exact amouut is not known. Auckland, November 27. The' Waste Lands Board passed a resolution askinc the Government to employ Pdnc.e to. complete the purchase of the 'IV Ar°V block, so as to carry out an agreement wi,th Bloonihall, and open land for settlement. Thirty horses in, Auckland training for the forthcoming race?, and several ex* picted from South. receipts. o( Jj^diau Fam.in,o Fund,