NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7921, 13 April 1887, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

I [OWN CORRBSPONDBNTS.I Thames, Tuesday. The Fatiki and Pearl, ohartered by St. George's Sunday-school, prooeeded to Tapu yesterday with 350 excursionists. The outing was somewhat marred by showers, There was also aa excursion to Miranda. Scarcely a day pasees without some old resident leaving the district, chiefly for Africa, Queensland, and Auckland. Paeroa, Tuesday. It is now almost certain that the proposed £7300 loan is lost. Opotiki, Tuesday. The steamer Douglas, Captain Austin, for Auckland, with a full cargo, crossed the bar splendidly this morning, against a very heavy aea. A son of Dr. Reid had his arm dislocated at football yesterday. [PKESS ASSOCIATION. J New Plymouth, Tuesday. Five men belonging to the steamer St. Kilda, named Carroll, Brown, Calder, Olsen, and Jensen, have bee a arrested, charged with brutally assaulting James Lake at Moturoa Hotel, last night. Lake is is a precarious condition in the Hospital. Wellington, Tuesday. Hie Excellency the Governor will preside at a meeting of the Jubilee Committee tomorrow night. The Wellington Volunteers returned at one o'clock this afternoon from the Taranaki encampment. The men speak well of the encampment generally, but condemn the catering arrangements in unmeasured terms, Some of them wished to take their own provisions with them, having had a taste of the bad catering at other encampments, but they say they were prohibited from bo doing by their commanding officers. Dctnedin, Tuesday. The Premier, who «rrived here last night, leaves on Satnrday or Monday next, without addressing his constituents. He is retained to lead for the plaintiffs in the big case— Sargood and Co. v. the Corporation of Dunedin, which comes on for hearing tomorrow morning, and is expected to last several days. Heavy damages are claimed for tbe flooding of the basement of plaintiffs' warehouse. At a special meeting, the City Council accepted tlio tender of McEvoy, Manley, McLeod, Eank and Co. (£493), for street and sewer cleaning, street watering, etc., for one year. The Council are makiug the experiment of dispensing altogether- with day labour.