APPEAL FROM TE PUKE FOB GOVERNMENT AID. Telegram of Sympathy from Lord Carington. [FROM OUR OWN SPECIAL REPORTER.] Wellington, June 11.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 6

APPEAL FROM TE PUKE FOB GOVERNMENT AID. Telegram of Sympathy from Lord Carington. [FROM OUR OWN SPECIAL REPORTER.] Wellington, June 11.

Large numbers of private messages are being received here from Rotorua, but the block on the wires is so jrrcat, that not even an urgent niest>ago could be received at the Wellington oflice to-day, although work was coming tin ough all the time fiom Napier. Hence I was unable to send through messages to you until they were so old as to be useless. The department were assisted _by having the duplox system at work in Auckland. Mr Hobbs received the following very important telogiam, brought from a settler 'at Te Puke, ono of the Vesey Stewart special settlements, which is only a short distance from Tauranga : "Desolation all around. The country covered with sand ; cattle starving. Will you urge the Government to help, and send some hay to Tauranga." Mr Hobbs immediately handed the telegram to the Premier, who promised to lay it before the Cabinet. Subsequently the Premier telegraphed to Mayor of Tauranga asking him to do what he could in this matter. Further action will probably be taken to morrow. In the House this afternoon the Premier road a telegram from Lord Carington, the Governor of New South Wales, expressing sympathy in the calamity. When the Premier stated that both terraces were safe, there was loud applau&e,

A Sad Story is told in connection with Mr Harard's nephew, who was amongst those killed. A Wellington gentleman who was at the Terraces, was quite taken with the child, who was only four or five years old, and arranged to adopt him. He had just completed arrangements bring him down to Wellington when he got news of the Catastrophe.