TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7721, 16 November 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) Auckland,' November 15. The dwelling of James Owen at Kawakawa was burned down. It was insured for £HO in-the Boyal office. The directors of the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company have resolved to send Mr W. L. Rees to England to promote special settlements on their estates. Mr Rees has tact to persuade men, and will have valuable properties to offer them, lt is satisfactory that the directors are resolved to do their utmost to ■secure a bona fide settlement of the vast tracts of territory which liave come into their possession distinctly on settlement conditions.

Napier, November 15. At a meeting of cricketers it was resolved to invite the English team now in Australia to play a three flays' match in Napier. £100 is to be offered, or £60 if on arrival the weather prevents the match. A committeo has been formed to canvass for subscriptions. Hawke's Bay grown tobacco leaf haTs realised in Auckland Is per lb for extra first j quality; good first, Sd; good second, 7d.

Wellington, November 15. At the Magistrate's Court to-day John Thomas Oake, who eloped with Mrs Fiebig from Wellington and who was arrested at Napier on a chargo of having stolen certain property belonging to the injured husband, was brought up and dismissed. The next phase of tho elopement will be a suit for dissolution of marriage. A lunatic named Reuben Scrimshaw, residing at the Lower Hutt, made a murderous attack on his mother on Saturday morning. He was subsequently secured and committed to the asylum. Mrs Scrimshaw was severely bruised.

CiiRiSTCHUitCH, November 13. Mr William Noble, temperance orator, has written from Melbourne stating that in consequence of the serious illness of his wife he is compelled to cancel all his colonial and American engagements. The Governor and party left for Wellington this afternoon. At the Magistrate's Conrt to-day, two men were lined £5 apiece for playing roulette and a similar game at the recent Metropolitan meeting. Mr Beetham, R.M., expressed the opinion that the legalisation of the totalisator had tended to increase betting. Sergeant Brookes, who has been in charge of Akaroa for the past three years, died tonight after a painful illness. He had been in the police force since 1575, and was much respected.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

(Fbom Oub Own Correspondent.) Wellington, November 15. General satisfaction is expressed here at the victory of the Government over the Cable Company, and both the Times and the Post compliment Sir Julius Vogel cordially on the success achieved by his tact and firmness. With regard to the pending alterations in the San Francisco mail time table, I learn that tha practical effect will be that letters will be delivered regularly in 32 -days, or even less, and that if an acceleration on the

transcontinental railway transit can be made, as now proposed, the time can be broughl down to iiO days. The Rotorua made a smart run down with the inward mail, arriving soon after 1 p.m. She was not expectstl until much later, and the departure of the Te Anau was put off from 3 till G in order that she might take on the Sonthorn mails, but as it happened this was quite needless, for she might have got away by 2 and caught tho Dunedin express easily. As it is tliis is scarcely possible. Constant hoavy N.W. gales have been experienced hero day and night during the last 10 days, and throe shocks of earthquake were felt hero during yesterday's churoh services Majors Crowe and Gudgeon, the Military Land Claims Commissioners, have concluded their work in Wellington, having received 170 claims, making the total forthe North Island 1350. They go South by next Thursday's steamer to deal with claims in Canterbury and Otago. Mr Ballance left to-day by the Hawea for Picton. He will also.visit Blenheim, Nelson, and the surrounding country on business' connected with the Land department. He hopes to be able to institute or encourage some further movements in the direction of special land settlement.

The sittings of the Appeal Court aro expected to last fully a fortnight more, as a good deal of business still remains lo be transacted.