NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6567, 4 December 1882, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] WANGANUI, Saturday. The vital statistics for November ara:— Births, 27 ; marriages, 6 ; deaths,. 14. The deaths shov? an increase of 6. WELLINGTON, Snnday. Rain has fallen all day, and will be of great assistance to farmers. GREY MOUTH, Sunday. It has beeu raining since nine o'clock last night, and only ceased this afternoon. The iam will do a great deal of good. HOKITIEA, Saturday. The Ross Gold-mining Company's water engine was christened yesterday, and the occasion was made quite a gala day in the town of Ross. At the K-imu rush for the past fortnight nearly all work in the claims has been suspended for the want of rain. To-night, the weather has changed, and rain has commenced. TIMARU, Sunday. A six-roomed house at Maori Hill, occnpie<l by Mr. Walker, schoolmaster, and owned by Mrs. MaeKenzie, was burned down yesterday afternoon. The house was insured for £300 in the Royal, and the furniture for £150 in the same office. Mr. Walker estimates his loss at £100. The flame;! fused al! the telegraph wires,, and. interrupted communication/With the North, for a cinie. DUNEDIN, Saturday. The Benevolent Carnival sports were highly successful, especially in point of attendance. The fun principally consisted in well-known citizens playing a cricket match, against a team cf well-known young blood 3, rigged cut in petticoats. Some of the latter were perfect belles of the period. Others wore coal scuttles and gay coloured prints, and the crowd being in the humour to be amused ■ laughed heartily at their absurd antics. An interesting bicycle race and one or two other events nelped to fill up- the afternoon. Simonsen's operi , , season concluded tonight. The company played "Boccaccio" for eight nights during the season. At a quarter to two this mocning a fire broke out at the Milton Pottery, and by three the greater part of the works were destroyed. An immense amount of finished ware in stock was destroyed.. The firo is a bad tiling for Milton. Forty hands are thrown out of employment. There is a suspicion of incendiarism. The stock was insured for £1555 with the National, part of which was re-insured in the New Zealand, United, and Victoria. A fire occurred on the sailmaking premises of Thomson and Owen, Castle-streec, last night. They were insured in the Hamburg Company for £200.