Yesterday's Telegrams

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7286, 14 August 1893, Page 1

Yesterday's Telegrams

(By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, August 12. A twelve-roomed bouse, owned and occupied by Mr G. Buchanan, Hikurangi, has been burned down It was insured by the Straits Office for £SOO, and the furniture and effects in the Commercial Union Office for £3OO. The fire broke out in the dining-room, where clothes were left to dry. The gum-diggers are protesting against the payment of a license foe in the State forest at Fufaipnhi, and are agitating to be placed on the same footing as miners with regard to digging on Government lands. Railway communication is suspended between Pokeno and Mercer owing to the Mangatawhu bridge being deemed to be unsafe. The Government have declined to give any grant to repair the Birkenhead landslip. WELLINGTON, August 13. Several instances of larceny resulting from distress have been reported lately. Yesterday a young able-bodied man, who gave himself into custody and admitted stealing a pair of boots, was sentenced to sis months' bard labour. Last night another man admitted the larceny of an over-coat. Both prisoners stated that they were unable to obtain work and were in a thoroughly destitute condition. The Taupo with the San Francisco mail sailed for Lyttelton at 1 p.m. to-day. I