TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1278, 30 May 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OVKN CORRESPONDENT.) . DUNBDIIf, 28. All the* female immigrant^ by the ship Caroline Jjave been engaged. The Immigration Officer reports that twice the number could have secured employment 29. The Otago Times has declared that the City Licensing Committees have agreed in future to allow no hotel in the city to keep open after 11 o'clock at night, and to strictly administer the AcJ;. ' . Auckland, 28.- ; A thunder-storm passed over, the city in the afternoon and the lighting struck; the coach building establishmenfr of %krntt and Co., at Newton, Three men working at the forms escaped uninjured, though somewhat unnerved. The Ponsonby public school in which there were 500 children, was also struck at the same time. The wood work of the turret was displaced, and some fell down, and the zinc sheeting was torn off. The flash of lightning "was;followed instantaneously by a deafning peal of thunder, and the children were in a great state of consternation, numbers running out of the schOoL Christchurch, 28. , Eight sailors .refused to go to sea in the barque Brian Holme, on the ground that the ship was short-handed. The ships articles required 22 men, and there were 19 all told on board. Each of the accused had cashed tjie advance notes for £6. The three ringleaders were' sent to gaol for four months, and the others ordered on' board. " The Diamond Company has resolved to increase its capital by the issue of 100 more shares, for .funds to secure a mineral lease for 21 years. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, Ohas. Fleming was charged with having set fire to the premises of his father Thos. Fleming, on the 24th May, Prisoner was remanded till Friday. Tauranga, 29. The Bay of Plenty Times reports, that Tawhaio arrived at Bangawar with 200 Waikatos on the 27th, and was met by two strong bodies of Tauranga Natives numbering 300, and many women. The King seems poor. He has been invited to Tauranga as a private guest. His next movements are uncertain. . Napier, 29. The Governor landed to-day, and was received by the Mayor and Councillors and a large concourse of people. At a meeting of the Harbor Board

last night, a resolution was carried to ' the effect that a graving dock be constructed as soon as the position of the Board warranted the undertaking being commenced. ;