GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10127, 9 May 1896, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION,]

Napier, Friday. Burglars abstracted £18 in cash, and a large amount in securities from tho safe of Henry Williams and Son. The securities will be valueless to the thieves.

Wellington, Friday. The well-known property, Maonab'n Gardens, at the Lower Hutt, comprising HI aore«, was sold by auction to-day for £5200.

Three and a-half inches of rain were registered at Masterton yesterday. Tho weather has now cleared.

Mrs. Falconer, wife of Captain Falconer, of the Torpedo Corps, died last night, after a long and painful illness, aged 32. The Premier addressed a crowded meet ing at Otaki last night, traversing much the same ground as in recent speeches. A vote of thanks and confidence in the Government was carried unanimously. Westport, Friday. The Arbitration and Conciliation Board for the district of Weitlsnd (Messrs. G. H. Millar, M.H.R., Tressmah, Bailie, and Kettle), have been Bitting here on and off for a week past, endeavouring to select a chairman, bub have failed to do so. The appointment will now bo made by the Government. The business to be brought before the Board is a dispute regarding hewing rates at Cardiff, ana the Westport Coal Company's collieries, Peter Segree, carpenter of the barque Cynosure, was romanded this morning on a' oharge of stabbing a coal miner named Scobie in a hotel yesterday. Heavy rain and flooded rivers continue. There has been no communication with the country for several days. The v estport Coal Company is making a special effort to got their Grimly Creek mine open by the Ist June. Several vessels are offering to load coal here for foreign parts. CunißTOHonoii, Friday. Two short, sharp shocks of earthquake were felt this morning, the first at 1,55 and the second about an hour later.

Dunedin, Friday. The Dunedin electorate has 16,944 males and 19,016 females, Dunedin and immediate suburbs have a population of 46,176. At the police court three traders were each fined 5s and costs and ordered to pay treble the amount of tux for failing to make returns of their incomes.