TELEGRAPHIC.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1585, 15 April 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(fuom on: own coßitEsro.sdent.) Pp.nkdix, this day, 9 a m. Mi FuUon addressed a wetting of lii 3 constituents at Mosgiel bst evening ami received a vote of thanks and confidence. Messrs Esther and Low hare h?d a meeting of creditors mid offered 17s 6d i»i the £ which was accepted. The liabilities arc £I9OO. At yesterday's meeting of the Land Hoard, J. M 'Arthur and others petitioned that the balance of hlt;cks taken from ruu 221, Maniototo, and Oj ened for agricultural leasing, be now opened as pastoral land in areas of 1000 acres. NJr Vincent i'yke supported the petition, which was declined. A me« tir.g held yesterday to consider '.lie project of makiiiu a Jubilee I'aik, was, at »e: v-r of the Mavor, Mr Tracers ?.t Wellington, ha." m>h i . . disclosure* rc tli- value of the Ci \\:i ; u > >i ~u. i, <> the Mhl himl Kr.i! way Co. If-- declito:. ti...- oi.i of 12,000,000 only r >l)00 are ti: f: r i ulivnii».n, the rtinainder l<ciit» chit-fly ns deis bir<-h lurch t*. 1»r l:u-»ell. of ChrisMinrch, L. : l»en found cuii'y of one change of procuring aboition. Kxtr-ionltnarv heavy rains have f.iihn at Melbourne ai"! tr.ilhc in unfilled, 'l'hc flood* have d-jnc nnch d un and owing to the hursriiig of a sew.r four houses collapsed, the innatcs n&iiowly escaping wilh their lived. f LATKR KEWB. 10.50 a rn. A four-rooineil house in Hanover-street uas destroyed by fire lait ev»fiing, and the occupitr, Alfred Merii', -aho w;i<* a•'••• p'n bed, escaped with difficulty. He was luirtml a >:o«d deal and taken to tne hoH| ifal. The building, owned by Mr* John Leckie, was injured in the New Zealand office foi iil.V).

Inspector Weldon returned to Dunedin yesterday, ami pgumcj duty on Monday. At yesterday's inecijg of Harl>or Hoard, a memo was rt-H'l fn,m Auditor-funeral, refusing to pass acicni'ts because the Upper ami Lower llarltor accounts had not I.een kept separate. Mi« hael lluulihiiti was yesttrday lined i'so at the City Police C't.uir, fvr liavjnt: fraudulently neglected to enter in S;ia brewer's loo!;—an required by the liter Duty Act—the removal from liis brewtry of three ho-jsheada of Leer, sold by him on 18th Jauuary. STAIi CABLEGRAMS. London, April 1.1. The British and RussianGoveritments have arrived at un agreement in principle regarding tiic HtiusoAtglun boundary. The Anglo-Kussiau Commission w ili ai range details. New* i 3 to hand frein Wada Haifa that four envoy* from the M&hdi's successor at Khartoum hare been allowed to pass on their way to Cairo, bearing letter* for the Queen, the Khedive and the Sultan. Lord Salisbury lian declined to consider a proposal for return to protection in England, but expressed himself well disposed towards the adoption of differential duties iu favor of colonial as against foreign produce. Mews from Afghanistan is producing a feeling of nueasiness. Many reports are current which cannot be relied upon, but activity by the Russians is well assured. They are reported to be collecting stores on the Afghan frontier, with a view of makiug a descent npon Herat. The Irish bishop* have received instructions from th« Pope not to take part in Nationalist agitation.