NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7268, 5 March 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

» . -" ■ - . ;■.;.. [FBKSS ASSOCIATION.] - '■ ••> TAUPO, Wednesday. : The natives on the southern ' shore of the lake are holding meetings re the sale of land to form a township at Tokanu. All the principal chiefs are in favour of a township being made. ' There are a fen obstructionists who hold oat against the object in view. The Taupo-Wanganui Eoad, now under construction by the Armed Constabulary, will pass through a native village called Waimarino, on the south side of Rotoaira, between Ruapehu and Tongariro, and . will croee the Main Trunk Railway about thirty miles from the south-western shore of Lake Taupo. - , . GISBORNE, Wednesday. The Harbour Board has decided to take a. poll of ratepayers on the harbour loan_ question at once. " . ; * • ' BLENHEIM, Wednesday. The Marlborough Education Board yester. day passed a resolution calling the ' attention of the Government to the fact that '£846, its share of the building vote, was not sufficient to meet the demands upon it, and nothing can be spared from the Maintenance Fund. The Board's Building Fund is already £260 in debt, and the applications amount; 1 to £1400. : ■■■•' ' ' WELLINGTON, Wednesday. • Mr. Micaiah Read, Governor of the Terrace Gaol, bam been called upon to retire on account of age. Mr. Read is' 65 years of age, and has been Governor of Wellington Gaol for 25 years. ' •■-••■■ '~: ; :r v" ; ' ; An information for perjury has been laid against F. E. Price, bookseller, Masterton. The offence is alleged to have been com. mitted daring the hearing of an affiliation case a fortnight ago. . . : ; CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The funeral of the late Mr. H. Oram, of the Royal Hotel, who died suddenly ,at Dunedin on Saturday, took place this after* noon. The hearse was preceeded by a large number of the Masonic order,' and followed by a train of 50 carriages. .■'.''■ DUNEDIN, Wednesday. An eight-roomed house, owned by Mr. Thomas Wright, and situated in Havelockstreet, Mornington, was destroyed by fire this morning. The insurances were £250 on the building, and £156 on the furniture in the National. . , , , .. ' At the Dunedin Licensing meeting to-day, a number of publicans in the north end of the city, where ten o'clock licenses are the rule, applied for an extension to twelve o'clock, which is the hour in the south end of the city. The Bench said they had determined to make no change till the annual meeting in June. • . Mr. John Harrigan, of Oamaru, who had come down to go to Dunedin Hospital, was found dead in bed this morning at the Levia* than Hotel. An inquest will be held tomorrow. .. ,". " The ship Turaldna, • which sails on Saturday morning, will take between 11,000 and 12,000 carcases of frozen meat. Mr. James Shand ships nearly half of them, and Thomson Bros, about 3000. Samuel Green, a labourer working on the Fernhill Railway branch line, died suddenly last night, it is supposed from heart disease. The deceased, who was 57 years of age, left Green Island last evening with the intention of returning to his tent, and he was found dead on therailway line at six o'clock this morning. Deceased, who leaves a wife and family residing at Roslyn, ■ had been under medical treatment some time ago for heart disease. . , - . INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. I Murdoch's Woodend Saw-mill was burnt this morning. The fire ie supposed to have originated in the smithy. . The owner had an insurance of £600 in the Victoria on the mill, but he is uncertain if it is still in force. Murdoch's was the oldest and most extensive saw-mill in the district. ; Much sympathy is felt for bim, as he recently had another mill destroyed. ::i I ~/..;: r>