NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 4591, 4 March 1884, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | DEATH OF MRS. GILLIES. Auckland, March 4. Mrs. Gillies, wife of Judge Gillies, is dead. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. • Seven trucks on the Waikato line ran off the rails and seriously damaged the passenger carriages. No one was injured. The cause of the accident is not known. ■ PIEE IN AUCKLAND. A fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in Wall's draper's shop, in Queen-street. Tlio Fire Brigade were promptly on the ground, and extinguished it, but great damage was done to the stock. The shop forms part of a block, and is insured for £1000 in the Standard. Wall's stock was insured for £3000. The police consider the circumstances of the fire suspicious, and are making enquiries. SEVEHE HUMUCANE AT TONGA. The schooner Golden Ide, which arrived last night from Tonga, brings news of a severe hurricane which swept over the island on the 7th February, lasting till the 10th. It did considerable damage to houses and plantations ; trees were uprooted, but, fortunately', no. lives were lost. When the first indications of the hurricaue were felt, every preparation was made to meet the full force of the storm, so tuat the damage was not so great as it r tnight have been. The barometer was down to 29-18. The Golden Isle fell in with the hurricane when about 20 miles off the island, and her starboard bulwarks carried away. ' ' NELSON COPPER MINE; Nelson, March 4. The United Copper Mining Company have resolved to send 20 tons of ore to Newcastle to test its commercial value. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT! Timaru, March 4. Joseph Mackay, late Government Insurance agent, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement of premiums. UAI3BITS FLOODED OUT' Invercargill, March 4. The floods have driven thousands of rabbits out of their burrows, and passengers by the Kingston train report the line almost blocked by the rabbits, which, when overtaken, took to swimming. SAWMILL BURNT] Martin's sawmill, at Winton Bush, has been burned down. Insured for £650 in the New Zealand, National, Victoria, and Union Offices.

, The Legion of Honob.— la addition to the award of the Gold Medtl (L' Academic Nationale), and also the Silver Medal, awarded to John Brinsmead & Sons, of Wigmore-streot, London, for the superiority of the Piano exhibited by thorn lasc year at tho Paris Exhibition, the founder of tho firm has been created Chevalier of thß Legion of Honor thii distinction being conferred on no other British Piano, en a Mvmfaatttieri