NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7689, 14 July 1886, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

*> [from our own correspondent.] Thames, Tuesday. The recent rains have brought down a number of logs to the Shortland Sawmill. They are none too soon, as the mill was about to stop through lack of timber. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Napier, Tuesday. The funeral to-day of the late William Alick Burke, local manager of the Bank of Now South Wales, who died somewhat suddenly yesterday, was very largely at* tended. Wellington, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court a verdiot of guilty of embezzlement was returned againstGibson, formerly Town Clerk, Petane. Sentence was deferred. Kaikoura, Tuesday. Connor's Temperance Hotel was burnt down early this morning. About £30 worth of effects were saved, The inmates saved little or nothing. The premises and contents were insured for £600 in the New Zealand office. Fortunately there was no wind, or Maxton'a new store would have gone ; as it was it was only saved by the most strenuous exertions, the building being slightly damaged. Christchurch, Tuesday. The barque Onyx, which was to have left for Cambridge Gulf to-day, has been detained owing to a dispute in Dunedin as to the charter. It is expected she will get away to-morrow. At the Divorce Court to-day Mr. Justice Johnston granted a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage in the case Winthorp v. Win thorp, on the ground of adultery and desertion by the husband. Dunedin, Tuesday. The Presbyterian Church Committee have declared the dividend for the half year of the sustentation fund to be £106 13s 6J, a slight increase on that for the same period last year. The Taiaroa Relief Fund Committee, finding very little prospect of increasing the fund, have decided to allocate the amount in hand, £166 odd, among the most necessitous cases.