NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9089, 25 June 1888, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondent.]

Thames, Saturday, The County Chairman, Mr. A. Brodie, today received a telegram from the secretary of the Treasury Department, Wellington, informing him that a voucher for £6000 has passed audit, and that the money will reach the Thames in a few days. It may be mentioned that £6600 was the sum applied for, but under section 13 of the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, the balance of the loan cannot be paid during the present financial year.

[press association.] , Wanganui, Sunday. A five-roomed house, situated at Dimtown, owned and occupied by Mr. J. Campbell, was burnt down last night. The insurances on the house are £150 in the Norwich Union, and £50 in the Liverpool, London, and Globe, and on the furniture £150 in the Colonial.

Dunedin, Saturday. The fight to a finish between Murphy - and Molloy, for £25 a side and the light weight championship, was won by Murphy. W. Thomson, a well-known ex-publican, fell over a bank thirty feet high to-day, and was severely injured, being unconscious for some time. Hopes of his recovery are entertained. . Bluff, Sunday. Edward Landarf, a passenger for Melbourne by the Mararoa, was arrested here by Sergeant Fickle, on a Dunedin warrant, charged with obtaining goods under false pretences. He will be remanded north tomorrow. The Bluff police deserve credit for having arrested three runaways in as many weeks. The barquentine Annie Bow, from the Bluff to Adelaide, with timber, put back yesterday, owing to her having lost her deck cargo, and tho refusal of the men to do duty. The vessel is not damaged, but the men got scared, and compelled the captain to return to the Bluff.