TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
News from Tahiti is to the effect that a large proportion of the French residents there are moving in the direction of changing the present form of Government and establishing a Commune there.
Cunningham's hotel, at Windsor, near Oamaru, and Taylor's store adjoining the hotel were burnt to the ground early on the 23rd The ori.ia is uuknown. Insurances: On the hotel aud building, £600 in the Phoenir ; stock, JE4SO. The Pbosnix have reinsurances in the Standard for £185 aud £143; Colonial, £240; North German, £234; and South British, £150. Taylor's store was insured iv the New Zealand office for £465. Of this there was a reinsurance for £200 in the South British.
Joseph Wallis, of Waikaia, was committed for trial at Gore on the 23rd inst., in the Supreme Court on two charges of offences against the Marriage Act
Several families who were poisoner] la«fc week at WanganUi, by eating tapioca or sago are recovering from the effects. Mr J. Cameron, au old settler, has been very ,bad from the same cause, but is now better, though under a doctor'n care.
The Maori Mohi, who was well-known to old Auckland residents, and who was for yeirs the servant of the late Hon. W. Swanson, is dead.
Heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday caused a flooding of the lower stores of some business premises in Auckland, and also houses in the suburbs. Part of Great South road was under 4ft of water for 200 yards, and a horse attached to a bug*y was nearly drowned there, the vehicle being submerged. A lady and gentleman, who were in the buggy, had a narrow esc^p-s. At a public meeting in connection with the Auckland Anglican Synod, Dr Gilep, resident magistrate, read a paper on " The Treatment of Drunkards." He condemned the present system of punishment both of drunkards and habitual criminals, and recommended curative treatment. Que method for dealing with chronic drunkards was hypnotism, which was now being tried, but notbiog could be dona till the law permitted drunkards to be compul.sorily detained as long as might be nee- scary for their care. The Rev. T. H. Spratt read a paper on the " Law of Divorce," in which he said it was essential for the welfare of the individual and for the State that marriage should be indissoluble, ' '
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Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 30 October 1890, Page 17
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388TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 30 October 1890, Page 17
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