TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1976, 30 November 1889, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Rotomabana took a shipment of 3500 sacks of maize from Auckland to Sydney. The Taupiri Reserve Colliery Company, Auckland, netted a profit of £933 for the half year. An assay of samples of quartz from Pubipuhi has been made by Mr, R. D. Galbraith, Auckland, who states that the quartz is argentiferous, and contains 9140 z 13dwt of silver per ton of 22481 b. There are only traces of gold present. A great amount of mystery has been observed, even relative to the location of the discovery itself; but according to the Herald the prospectors have operated on three reefs.

One is called the Silver reef, and' it was from this that the result of 1740 z of silver and 13oz of gold were obtained. This was from a one-ton trial from a reef carrying ore for a width of 2£ft. Other samples were sent from other reefs, and experts at Wairongomai pronounced them to be free milling ore. The Silver reef is really the only one that has been tested effectively. Mr and Mrs Moorhouse, of Hawkes

Bay, now in England, have cabled out £2OO in aid of the Wellington Free Library. Esther Powditcb, for neglecting whom the Abbotts were recently sent to gaol, has been discharged from the Christchurch hospital with her health completely restored. She has been

committed to Burnham in order to be licensed out to the authorities of St. Catherine’s Home, Charles Leslie, alias Lesurer, alias William Thompson, was arrested at Invercargill on Wednesday, charged with stealing 42 sovereigns from Jas. Wilson, at Dunedin, on Friday. The prisoner had 27 sovereigns, and his portmanteau is on the Mararoa, by which he intended leaving for Melbourne. He is believed to be a Melbourne spieler, attracted by the Exhibition.

By a fire on Wednesday morning in Boundary street, Greymouth, several houses were destroyed, but the damage was confined to one side by the Argus office, and on the other by Hannah’s boot shop. The following buildings were destroyed : —Bish, jeweller’s and watchmaker’s shop; Butler’s Commercial Hotel, a two-storey building; North’s Taney goods store ; Keley’s drapery ; Dorn’s bootmaker’s shop ; Zachariah’s, pawnbroker and jeweller; Brimley’s, tinsmith; Argus Printing Office; and Thomas Garth’s, tobacconist. Very little was saved from any place, and most lost all. The total loss is estimated at £14,000, and the insurance at £3290.