NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7161, 29 October 1884, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FflOM OUR OWN CORRESPOND iNTS-1 WAIORONGOMAI, Tuesday. Tiie nominations for the county elections are required to be sent to the Returning Officer on Saturday, the Ist pros. Mr. Murphy is not a candidate, but there is not likely to be any lack of aspirants. RUSSELL, Tuesday. The whale picked up by the Agnes Martin, and towed back on Sunday, has been sold for £26. Local whaling parties are doing well. [press association. 1 CaRISTCHURCB, Tuesday. About half-past nine to-night a ten-roomed house at Fendalton, near Christchurch, was burned down. It belonged to Mr. H. E. Trewin, who is in Taranaki. His family were out at the time. It was insured for £200, and the furniture for £100 in the South British. The cause of the fire is not koown. A meeting of inventors wa3 held to-night, when it was decided to form an Inventors' Agency Company with a capital of £5000, in £1 shares, for bringing out the inventions of inventors who have not capital or other means for working themselves. Letters promising support were received from inventors in all parts of the colony. TIMARU, Tuesday. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual show was opened to-day, it being quite equal to previous years, and superior in some classes of exhibits. The weather was not promising. The judging of the result will bs declared to morrow. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The express to Christchurch was delayed yesterday morning by two nuts on the steambox breaking o2 and. 'allowing the steam to escape. This delayed the train an hour and a quarter at Sawyer's Bay. The Chinaman burned at Alexandra lockup was very respectably connected at home in China, and was a splendid scholar, but a black sheep. His parents had several times sent for him to return home, but he had refused to go, and the general belief amongst his countrymen 13 that by aome means he managed to get some matches and set the place on fire rather than bring difgrAce on his parents. The lock-up was a tumble-down kind of building, and it had been known that Chinese confined there had been given cigarettes and matches by their friends. J The Mornington Cable Tramway Compa* „ are completing an extension of their T half a mile in length, at a cost of r £4500. The grade in part of it is 1 J/5,.,

which Is the steepest in the world. ' be open in three weeks. ' A fire at Nofth-sast Valley bn-' , - five-roomed house and store, the At'uown a Mr. Joseph Brown, last night. property 01 was aw»y, and Mrs.' Brow i he-owner youngest child with great r~ * furniture was uninsured, br iiSacxilty.. • The buildings were, though it -t the stock and what amount. is no* known to .Thw. first angling CO' ■ ■ son was held on Fridr Jipetition of the seaMr. S. Thomson, w" '7- The winner was 321b8, 2ozs,, caught lth s6 fish » weighing th«Shog : River,