NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6817, 22 September 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] WELII'N'GTONi Friday. TnE Salvation Arriiy have purchased the remainder of the lease of the Apollo Hair, ■which hag about nine years to run. The. place will be fitted up as a barracks. The jmqe paid is somewhere near £500 f and towards this expenditure upwards of £50 was subscribed at last night's meeting. Captain Edwin has received telegrams from all the meteorological stations on the: East Coast, stating that no sign of the cojnefc was seen last night, although a look cut was kept for it. The Grovernment have received a «sble. from the Agent-General, gating that the Bank of England annonnce the inscription o£ New Zealand short-dated debentures and-■S-30's. GREYMOUTH, Friday.. John Flanigan, a native of County Clare,, has died afr the hospital, aged 90; CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. ' A Maori fell off the platform of the train this afternoon in the tunnel. He waa. braised, and his head was injured, but it ia not supposed fatally. The trial, Stranaghan agaiast the Australian Mercantile Union Insurance Company, concluded to-day, after five days* : trial, with a verdict for plaintiff tor amount claimed, £p()0. The Kelaey letters re supposed diamonds have not been made public. At a public meeting of ratepayers of the. rural districts, a resolution was "carried to test the legality of a drainage rate on propert jr outside city. TIMARU, Friday. A childj fourteen snoriths old, eon of Mr. Fraser, hotel-keeper at Albury, was drowned this morning in a -water hole. BUNEDIN, Friday. .: 'fhe assault ease,, in which a reporter e£ the Evening Star is plaiiitiff, comes before the Court to-morrow. ;.... . The police have been inspecting the bui» chera , shops, under the Adulteration of FoocL Act, and have devoited patticular attentions to eausageßj whipb,. in .some cases,, haye beieri found to contain mate'ri^e. oAer-than :bi«£ : and mutton. .. Prbde.e.dingß;.wiU be; taken.' ./; The esfeblishment of ,an.aniateurathletio. club iebeing prbmvted i)iinedin. ; ' .'.;■/■