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Northern Advocate, 9 July 1887, Page 3

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Auckland, Thurday. D. Goldie is outfor City West. C. S. Wright .Treti"*" 1 •£»«"» the same -electorate in favour of J. W. She^f and now offers himself for B^soiiby. Samuel Vaile is out fe*--C?ity North. A man named P* -'W. Adamson was arrested yestoa'day on a charge of commifcfcliig^ indecent assault" on a "i&SLirbf four years, named Mabel Varney, whose parents reside in Symond-st. Hobson County Council has decided to take a poll on the proposal to borrow £6,000 from Government for road works. • Crockett's six roomed shop, and residence, Mount Eden, burnt down this morning. Another fire in Scheriff's buildings, Fort-street, whereby the Owl Printingoffice was gutted. At the' meeting of Loan and Mercantile Agency Company yesterday, a dividend of 15 per cent, was announced. Dr. Campbell, as chairman, said prices now ruling aro almost of an unremunorative nature, and before relief can come to the farmer, the rate of labour must undergo permanent reduction. The colony must become less of a paradise to the working man, than has hitherto been, or capital, which now employs him, will be driven from the colony. The schooner Reward is completely wrecked on one of the Cavalli Islands. She left Whangaroa for this port on Tuesday last, with-full cargo of sawn timber for Auckland Timber Com r pany. ? Wellington, Thursday.By capsizing of a boat at the Heads, a fisherman named Chas. Day was drowned. Day was a single man. Dunedin, Thursday. . New Zealand Farmers' League puts forward the following platform :— "Advances by the state to farmers at the lowest possible interest on farms not exceeding 500 acres; the establishment of a state Bank of Issue ; Land and income tax in place of property tax ; local Government and decentralisation; reduction in railway rates on- produce. -■■■•■ ■■--■• ••-•-■ Wellington Thursday. A gazette extraordinary ■? f urther I proroges parliament until 15th inst. Dissolution will take place immedieatly after the registrars in various parts of the Colony have notified (by telegraph) that they received maps of the newly constituted electoral districts. •;. .■ •■ By order in council it is gazetted this evening that the Kaihu Valley Eailway company, are authorised to issue debentures for £47,000, each debenture to be for a sum not less than £100, or more than £1000 bearing interest 5 per cent per annum. SERIOUS FLOODS. Westport, Wednesday. In tho Buller River to-day is the heaviest flood seen for years, stream running bank high, and rain still continues. Other creeks and rivers in the district also in flood. All land traffic and shipping movement suspened. Flood in Greymouth reached the height of six feet in telegraph office, covering the instruments.

Christchurch, Wednesday. Heavy flood in Ashley, Waimakariri, and Selwyn rivers. Greymouth, Thursday. Through tho floods, all business is suspended. During the day all the horses in the town had to be removed to the hill. Every stable is flooded, all occupants in theso quarters of the town had to seek shelter elsewhere, many of them going into the State School. Water remained in the streets all day, and it was not before nine o'clock in the evening that people cor. Id get about. The gas mains are full of water, and consequently there are no lights in the streets, except what comes from upstairs windows, and the town is dismal in extreme.