TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 897, 10 May 1889, Page 27

TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, May 2. An inquiry has just been concluded into a borough scandal, and the City Treasurer has resigned. It i 3 alleged that in letting allotments at the Waikomiti Cemetery he neglected to mark off those taken on tho plan, the result being confusion, and it is said that the disinterment of eight bodies took place without the consent of the Colonial Secretary being granted. In the case of Fleming v. Frater, a claim of £27 10i on account of sales of shares in the Saxon Goldmining Company, recently heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dr Giles nonsuited the plaintiff to-day. Tho City Council have decided to apply for a revocation of the Order-in-Council declaring that body under the provisions of the Public Bodies Power3|Aet. During the time the measure has beGn in operation here, since August last reductions in the rentals to the extent of £1096 have been granted. Wanganui, May 2. The Karioi correspondent of the Herald writes under dare 29th April : —“ This afternoon about 2.30 tho Wangaehu River rose from 3ft to 4ft in less than half an hour, and is still rising. The water is changing its colour from a milky hue to a dirty black. As wo have had no rain, and the river up till to-day h»3 been lower than I can remember for years past, the only solution to my mind is that some volcanic eruption has taken place at Ruapehu, though, strange to say, no one has heard any particular noise here.” Mr Burton, piano-tuner, was burnt out at one this morning. He loses everything, and had to get his wife and family out of the window. He estimates his loss at £l5O. There was no insurance. Greymouth, May 2. At Brunnerton this morning, Inspector Emerson and Mr J. G. Wcou, Collector of Customs, and the local police made a seizure at Malaohi Taylor’s brewery of a quantity of spirits and stilling implements. Taylor was arrested, and is now in custody. He is well known as a brewer and an old resident of this district. Blenheim, May 2. The Supreme Court sittings closed to-day. In Banco this morning, Mr Justice Richmood disagreed with the remark that Resident Magistrates could not consider a question of title to land. Counsel observed that Magistrates never did, but the Judge held they had a perfect right to do so. Dunedin, May 2. The fire at St. Bathans destroyed the drapery stores and stables of W. McConnochie and Thurslow’s Vulcan Hotel. The fire commenced at McConnochie’s premises, and spread to the hotel, from which some furniture was saved. The insurances on McGonnoebie’s building and stock are-—-New Zealand, £325 ; Victoria, £250 ; Northern, £55 ; South British, £2OO ; Guardian, £550; Liverpool and London and Globe, £SOO ; Phoenix, £SOO ; North German, £250 ; total, £2550. Only a few days ago the Equitable Association declined to renew a line of £3OO on the premises on account of the rate. Mr McConnochie had a heavy stock, and it is estimated that he will lose £4OOO over the insurances. The Vulcan Hotel was insured for £6OO with the Standard, but the risk is reinsured with the, Union and Colonial, each named holding risks to the amount of £2OO. At the City Court to-day, Andrew Smith, licensee of the Auld Scotland Hotel, was fined £lO and costs fes permitting hazard to be played on his premises, and the conviction ordered to he endorsed on, his. license. The oldest Masonic lodge in the district, the Otago Lodge, E.C., passed a unanimous i resolution last night that it was desirable that a Grand Lodge for New Zealand be constituted, and appointed Messrs William De Benzy, Dr Fitchett, Barth, Rev Ronaldson, and McGregor as delegates to the convention in Wellington daring next session of Parliament, to arrange a basis of the union to proclaim a Grand Lodge, and elect the first Grand Master. . , No trace, so far, has been found of the body of the fisherman drowned in the harbour yesterday. Invercargill, May 2. Mr Douglas, the statioumastor at Rivers-

dale who was run down by a waggon some weeks back, his foot having caught in a frog crossing while shunting, died this afternoon in the hospital. His recovery was not at any time hoped for by the medical staff, but he stood the amputation of his leg better than was anticipated. The immediate causa of death was pneumonia. Mr Dong'a3 was a young man, and leaves a widow and two children.| Christchurch, May 2. Mr J. D. Lance, M.H.R. for Cheviot, has just returned from an inspection of the.rabbit fences in South and North Canterbury, and in an interview expresses himself highly delighted with all he has seen. Special precautions are being taken in North Canterbury in consequence of rabbits having escaped through the fence. Two trappers have been sent to trap the rabbits on the non-infeated side of the fence. Mr Eden George, who unsuccessfully contested Christchurch South at the last election, announces himself as a candidate for Christchurch North.