TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 540, 24 January 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per press agency.) AUCKLAND. January 23. An order of the Supreme Court was obtained yesterday for the institution of criminal proceedings against David Hamilton, a bankrupt, for concealing portions of his estate, and a warrant has been issued for Ids arrest. A fire occurred in Elliot-street this morning, in Francis' crockery store. The supposed cause is the heating of damaged straw. Owing to prompt measures being taken, the fire was confined to the upper storey, where two firemen worked courageously, with respirators, amidst dense damp overpowering smoke, unknown to their comrades, where their safety was feared. The building and stock were insured for LBl4, in the New Zea-

land office, and the damage amounts to about LIOO. The Rotorua. left at 4.30 p.m. yesterday with the southern portion of the San Francisco mail. [This message did not reach us until late last evening.] ♦ CHRISTCHURCH. January 23. The following are the insurances on the premises destroyed, and from which very little stock was saved :—New Zealand, L 250 ; National, L 3650 ; half insured in the Transatlantic, L 1540; Norwich Union, L 250; Hamburg and Bre'nnar, L 750; Standard, L 250 ; Union, LIOO ; London, Liverpool, and Globe, L 1950 ; Phoenix, LISOO ; South British, LI7OO ; Northern, LIOOO ; Britannia, LISOO. Insurances on buildings and stock damaged : —Victoria, LIOOO ; London and Lancashire, LIOO ; South British, LISOO ; Transatlantic. LSOO-; Phoenix, L~OO ; Standard, LIOOO * TIMARU. January 24. Miss Ada Ward and the LydiaHowarde troupe had a full house at the Theatre Royal last night, and the entertainment was very successful. At the Geraldine R.M.'s Court yesterday, Richard Bell, farmer, Kakahu, was charged with stealing 128 sheep, the property of Mr. Robt. Taylor. The evidence was conclusive, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Timaru. The weather has cleared up. The harvest prospects are brightening up, reaping becoming general, * NELSON. January 24. Mr. Sharpe, M.H.R., addressed a full meeting of the electors last night. Having reviewed the events of the late session, he said that he had opposed the present Ministry at first because Sir George Grey was an avowed Separationist, and Mr. Macandrew a staunch supporter of the land compact ; but, when Sir George Grey announced himself as in favor of the unity of the Colony and the colonialising of the laud he (the speaker) gave_ the Ministry his support, and should continue to do so as long as he approved of their measures. After some questions had been asked, a vote of confidence in Mr. Sharpe was unanimously agreed to.