TELEGRAPHIC.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1170, 11 December 1868, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

THE PANAMA MAIL SERVICE.

CAPTURE of an ABSCONDER from VICTORIA.

GREAT FIRE AT TIMARU.

NEW GOLDFIELD IN OTAGO.

Wellington, December 8. The Raknia is the last steamer to Panama. The Panama Company's steamers Auckland and Claud Hamilton are sold.

Mr. IT. A. Bruce, after paying £230 for thepissase of his wife and family by the Rakaia to America, has just been arrested for embezzlement of moneys from the Civil Service in Melbourne. He arrived here this morning by the Tararua.

Wellington, December 9,

It is stated that the P>iri;L>n<i contract was never signed by the company in England, where it wns sent. The three steamers will return thence, but the Rakaia is to be the laut boat from this.

CuiusTCinmcii, December 8.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a fire lm>ke out in Monro's premises, at the north end of Tinvmi, and burned furiously before a strong North-wester till half-past six, destroying all the principal buildings of tlie town. Among the rest may be named the premises of Monro's furniture warehouse; Knight, painter; Wood, saddler; Solomon, draper; Seymour, watchmikor; Jacobs, watchmaker; Erskine, grocer ; Watkins, chemist; CJnrksonund Turnbull, general store ; Beldy, barber; Butter, chemist; Horton and Belfield, office of Timaru Herald; Bilton, bookseller; Byrne, private residence; Stubbs and King, butcher's shop and residence; Morgan, bakor; Mountford, photographer; Melton, stables and residence ; Fraser, butcher; Pogisjuisky, barber; M'Rae, Club Hotel; Sfcubbi and King, butcher's shon, No. 2; Post Office, Telegraph Olfice, and Bunk of New Zealand. No lives hnve been lost, so far as has yet been ascertained. Very little property has been saved.

1 Dpnebin, Thursday. A now and promising goldfield, situated about 20 miles from Switzer's, is reported.