TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1905, 5 September 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

■ - (KKOM OITK OWN COItUKSVONDKNT. ) DUNF.DIN, 3 The nominations for the four Dune.din seats and for the. Peninsular, Caversham, and Roslyn have linen fix-d for the 20th inst. An eijjit -roomed house at High Cliff, owned by Isaac Taylor, was destroyed by tin* yesterday. Insurance! £300 in the Norwich Union. It is not improbable that J. C. Brown will i>e opposed for Tuapeka by Mr F. aser, formerly Mayor of Lawrence. Auckland 3 T''p Seamen's Union have deter- ■ Mi'Kjd to call the line of steamers a iiich it proposes establishing tlie | Jnl i'oo Steamship Company, and it is siiid tiiat information has been received that the Australian Unions will join in with the N.Z. bodies to provide funds for carrying on the strike, and with this end in view a levy of 2/6 per man has baen made throughout New Zealand on 13.000 seamen now in employment. This will provide a montly income of nearly £3000 over and above any rates made from accumulated funds. Invkrcargill, 3 Capt. Tall, for many years harbormaster at Riverton, and who recently came out as a candidate for the Wallace electorate, died thig morning from the effects of a cold caught while prosecuting his canvas u\, country. Auckland 2 S. P^rcy Smith, Assistant SurveyorGeneral, and Cheeseman, curator of the Auckland Museum, have returned to Auckland from the Kenuadee group, having left the Stella at Kaipara. They report that the steamer was at Sun<hiy Island from the 15th to the 23rd, during winch time the island was ex* plored and surveyed, and Captain Fairi:hild took soundings for the ' picpiii'tiiion of a chart. Th« ceremony of annexing tlio group was pel formed

at Sunday Island on the 17th August, when the New Zealand flag was hoisted and the' Governor's proclamation was read. Cheeseman has brought I 115 kinds of flowering plants and ferns ! from Sunday Island, whose vegetation, tie says, is closely allied to that of the ]ffiw Zealand Islands. The island is covpi'ed with fcest.