NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7904, 24 March 1887, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

■J [own correspondent.] . . Thames, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Hospital trustees an - offer from the Church Mission to seH"3i t acres at Parawai, on which the Fever Hos--8 pital is situated, for £125 was submitted. It x was unanimously pronounced a great bargain. A committee was appointed to consider r whether it wafadvisable to pay the money or , seven per cant, interest instead. , Mr. Ehrenfrfed has donated £5 5s to the I Fire Brigade for their services at the fire in his brewery. The drapers celebrate the anniversary of i the early closing movement by a picnic to- ' morrow. The Lowrie Brothers were before their creditors again to-day. The meeting, which was rather stormy, was adjourned for a i week. The native Raunui Tami and his wife were brought before the Court to-day for shoplifting, but the case was adjourned for the presence of the Resident Magistrate. Other articles being missing, Constables Bullen and Bern proceeded to the prisoner's house, and found a merino jacket and flannel shirt, identified by Miss Johnson as her property stolen last week. The constables were in search of a coat, and have obtained a olue to its whereabouts. Tami confesses to having stolen It. In his house was found a small bale of calico, the owner of which has not yet been discovered. PRESS association.] Tjmaru, Wednesday. At an enthusiastic meeting of ratepayers held this evening at the Theatre Royal, the Mayor in the chair, it w,is de#ded to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, in a proper way, and a very strong committee, repre- . senting all classes of people, professions, etc., was appointed to consider proposals to lay before a public meeting at an early date. Curistchdroh, Wednesday. , To-day A. Woehaman, manager of Aoton Adams' hopfield station, was fined £10 on two charges of having rams running among ewes in infected flocks. At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board this afternoon, finanoial matters were discussed. The estimates of expenditure reported by the Finance Committee and agreed to include the following items:— Orphanage, £2700; Industrial School Children, £2,000; Old Men's Home, £1200; charitable aid, including boarding out of children, £900 ; Refuge, £700 ; administration. £1200 contingencies, £1000 repairs, £500. Items of £2000 and £500. new -buildings and purchase of sites, were struck out. The amount to be provided by local bodies is estimated at about £4315. Mr. Justice Johnston has been elected chairman of the Jubilee Celebration Committee. Captain Garsed was chosen secretary, and Mr. A. J. S. Harman treasurer. About 2 a.m. to-day a fire occurred at Willis's printing office in Cathedral Square. The building was partly gutted, and considerable damage was done to the stook. The insurances are: Building, £700 in the Norwich Union Office; machinery and stook, £900 in the South British, £800 in the Liverpool, Loudon, and Globe, and £500 in the Equitable. The cause of the fire is not known. Dunedin, Wednesday. To-day being the anniversary of the Province, it was observed as a general holiday. Over 1000 from town attended the volunteer field-day at Lake Waihola. Nearly 700 volunteers took part in the operations, Lieutenant-Colonel Wales, who was in command, said the sham fight portion of the operations had not come tip to his expectations. '* ....!■-.'. ".".-\. '..':'■' . ! ' :i; -."*'>-•-:■;. r ; - At the Anniversary Race 3, in the two-mile trot, Mabel paid a dividend of £49 Ijjs, which was the only bis one of the day,