TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10265, 24 January 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Pjjb United PsEsa Assocution.)

Auckland, January 23

The Hon. Mr Cadman and party arrived at Okoroire laejt evening, and left at 4 o'clock this morning for Whakatane, en route for tUs Uriwera country.

Marton, January 23, Ike Maoawata Counts offices weie hurn«d to tbe ground, this morning. The. loss is partially covered by insurance. The fira is supposed ta be the work of an incendiary.'

Weliington, January 23.

The Governor and party leave for tha south by the Te Anau on Satnrday night, en route to the southera islands. '

One of the prisoners working at Point H&lswell, & jouog roan named Roderick M'Kenzie, escaped this morning, and is still at large. He wag serving a term <>t two years' imprisonment for bousebreskiug at Napier.

The Buteshire, from Sydney, has on board 20 head of cattle shipped at Bockhampton from tha Mount Cornish station by the owners of the vessel, MeSßr<! Turnbull, Martin, and Co., to London as an experimental consignment. The bnllockc, which average about 18cwt, are splendid specimens of their kind. An American patent agency of. Cincinnati, U.S.A., has offered 10,000dol for the cola rights of the earmarking patent invented by Kessra Shearer and Hankms, of Palmerstou North. It is understood the patentees will accept th« offer.

Chbistcbubch, January 23.

At the Charitable Aid Board meeting to-day the chairman stated that it had been found ' that an aged recipient of relief, lately deceased, who had been assisted by the board for many years, had £100 in her possession at the time m her death.