TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 4156, 25 October 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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AUCKLAND, Monday. ' Isaacs, a storekeepers at Cambridge, has been lined £5 and costs for allowing liquor to be sold to natives in his new store at Oxford. Oppenheimer and Company, of ' thin . city, have received a calogram informing them that the firm of Henry P. Peabody and Co., of Boston, have decided toJay. on a line of sailing ships at regular intervals to this port. Mr the new find at Te Aroha, the Assistant Mining Inspector reports seeing dabs of gold an inch in diameter in a reef. WELLINGTON, Mohday. Messrs T. K. Mac Donald and Co. hare sold the properties lately occupied by E. W. Mills and others. * The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn purchased the Lion foundry for £15,500. The total amount realised at the dale was £30,815. PATEA, Monday Sir William Fox holds a sitting on Wednesday to examine Mr Williams, Land Purchase Commissioner, in reference to some £5000 alleged to be due to Patea and Waitatari natives and not accounted for. The subject has caused great excitement among 4 the natives. The Chairman of the County Council ims telegraphed to Major Atkinson iliat the iction taken !>y the Government re native ' ilL'uirs on trie const meets with the unniimous appro-fil of the settlers, and ha 'rusts thai the Government will be firm and 'iring matters to a speedy and successful ,ssue. Mr Bryce was heartily cheered on passing through liQve ou Saturday-

CIIRISTCeURCII, Monday. In consequence of repeated complaints about the candle factory in Sydenhain, th« Board of Health have at last ordered th" works to be discontinued. Tho proprietor admitted that there was a nuisance occasionally, but pleaded for tim^ t> erect itw premises in which to carry on ihe tallowmelting. This was the portion chiefly complained of, and the Board granted him six weeks' grace. Franrft's totalisator " copyright" case comes on to-morrow in the Supreme Court. C. J. Buker, traveller for the Kaiapoi Brewery C >mpany, while partially delirious from erysiprdas/cut his throat. He is now in a precarious condition. TIMARU, Monday. The annual show under the auspices of tiio Tiniaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association opens to-morrow, and, if t.ie weather is fine, promises to be a pruar siuieoss. A largo number of visitors from ail parts of C.uitvibury an 1 Olago have arrive 1. DUNEDIN, Monday. The Welcome Gold Mining Company (Il'iefton) have declared a dividend of 7per share. Priv.ito advices received here confirm thn report of serious damage I'}' fronts to the tobacco crops in America, and a rise in prices.