NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2876, 20 July 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CnuiKTcnur.cn, July 19. At a meeting of dairymen last evening, resolutions were carried that tho proposals made by the City Council in regard to the inspection of dairies and dairy cattle are calculated to unnecessarily harass and annoy owners, and that tho proper course would he to place the inspection in the hands of the respective local boards of health. It was resolved that in the event of the City Council proceeding with its proposal, the Governor-in-Council be petitioned not to accede thereto. Mr John Graham, of Sonthbridge, an old Canterbury settler, has been found drowned in a creek running near his residence. He is supposed to have fallen off a plank while crossing the creek and been stunned and drowned. Auckland, July 18. Nothing has been discovered as to the reason why young Cranwell blow his head off with dynamite. He had been two years working for the Mount Eden Highway Board, but did not go to work that morning. He went for a stroll, and returned to dinner, and late in the afternoon committed the deed. Maf.ton, July 19. Dr Skerman’s residence was burnt to tho ground on Saturday night. Owing to the very high wind blowing and the inadequacy of water supply and lire brigade appliances, it was impossible to save the building. The insurances are in the South British office, and total .£llOO, as follows :—-6340, furniture; .£6O, piano; £ 6OO, dwelling; .£IOO, stables. Some of the downstairs furniture and effects were saved. The fire is attributed to accident, through a servant leaving a candle near the curtains. _ , , 0 Bbunneiiton, July 18. Owing to the water not being yet pumped out of the lower workings in the Brunner mine, the adjourned Magisterial enquiry into the disaster has been again adjourned till the 30th inst. J Dunedin, July 18. The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association has passed a resolution asking the Minister for Railways to make a uniform rate for the carrirge of frozen meat on railways, and to take into consideration the advisability of materially reducing the present rates.