NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7339, 5 April 1887, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PER UNITED PBESS ASBOOIATION.I STANDARD INSURANCE. Dunbdin, April 5. At a special meeting of the Standard Insurance Company, inPtmedin, on Monday, a resolution limiting the number of shares to be held by one person to 300, and providing for the appropriation of £350 for directors' fees annually, was carried. ANOTHER FIRE IN AUCKLAND, A oix-roomed house, at the corner of Btre&ford and Union-streets,' belonging to Mrs. Skeen and occupied by Mrs. Helena Bobson and family, was destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. The origin is a mystery. The house was insured for £400 in the Union, and the fnrnituro for J8250 in the Royal,

FIRE AT PAKURANGA. An eight-roomed house, owned and occupied by Eoberfc Miller, a blacksmith, atPakuranga, was burned down on Friday night. Miller was somewhat badly burnt. NATIVE MURDKR AT OTAKBHO. Hawera, April 5. The inquest on the body of the native woman was resumed on Monday. All the evidence taken goes to show there was no foul play, and is quite irreconcilable with the medical testimony, which averred extensive injuries to the head and body. The inquest will be continued on Tuesday, when the doctors will be re-oalled.

NATIVE LAND COURT, " ' Wanganui, March 5. The Native Land Court came to a decision in the Waimarina block this morning, when the Chief Judge gave his decision that 41,000 acres represented the interests of 100 non-sellers, and 417,500 acres were in the interest of Government. This is the largest award yet made by the Native Land Court, and the block is one of great value in opening up the interior of the North Island.

VISIT OF FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR. Wellington, April 4. The Frenoh Consul here has received a communication from Admiral St. Helaire, stating he is delighted with the reception he met with at Auckland,- aud speaks warmly of the colony and the , people. He says every attention was paid to him and his staff. The Duguene was to leave Auokland to-day for Kawau, where the Admiral pays a visit to Sir George Grey. She leaves for Tahiti on Wednesday.

PROMPT JUSTICE. An instance of prompt justice was shown this morning. At 10.45 a.m a fireman named John Boss, of the Kaikoura, jumped into the hold and 1 smashed the nose of the second officer, against whom he had a grudge, He also,' tried to kick the captain. He was put in irons and taken up to Court, and at 11.45 received three months.

BUSH FIRES IN CARTfIRTON. - • Gartebton, April 5. , A bash fire on Sunday afternoon caused much alarm. Several shops and Btoreß at different times were alight, and a strong gale blowing. The dead bush is a standing menace to the town, and only with great trouble the fire was kept off. SUDDEN DEATH. Ohristohoboh, April 4. Yesterday morning William Webber, while exercising the racehorse Loiterer at Bangiora, was seized with an epileptio fit and fell to the ground, fracturing the base of his skull, and he died in half an hour. MAN RUN OVEB. Oamartj, April 5." A young .man named John Gibbons was killed by the wheel of a threshing engine going over his body. !

Mr. Pardy, accompanied by Mr. Carrington, interpreter, left by train on Saturday en route for Otakebo, in order to conduct the inquest on the Maori woman who is alleged to have met her death by illtreatment. The inquest was adjourned, it Will be remembered, on account ot the reluctance of the natives to give evidence. The are a number of distinguished visitors in Auckland. Lady Bovill and party arrived from Sydney by the Marioosa, and have gone to the Lake country, taking the Tauranga route. Mr. and Lady Kathleen Bushe and the Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly are also there, having made- a tour of the whole of the Southern provinces. It was their intention to have made a trip to the Lake country, but time would not permit, as it was necessary for them to reach Sydney in time to catch the steamer going to Japan. '

Mr. Robinson, the Crown Lands Ranger, sent in to the Land Board on Monday a tabulated report on 53 deferred payment sections, comprising 3,518 acres, aud valued at £12,360, in the Waitnate district, selected during the years 1880 and 1881. Mr. Robinson, in his attachment to tbo report, states — "A glaooe at thereport will show that in a very great majority of the cases the owners reside on the D.P. allotments, and that where they do not so reside they live upon the adjoining ones. As regards improvements, each selector has done' considerably more than is required ; and with respect to residence,' though the letter of the land has in some oases been broken, the spirit has generally been observed, as where personal residence haß been impossible the selectors have resided when their circumstances have allowed them to do so." The s.B. Macgregor arrived at the breakwrter at 3 o'clock, She crossed ,the Manukau bar at 5 o'clock last evening, and met with bad weather on her passage down. The s.B. Gairlooh was unable to leave Wanganui thin morning's tide owing to a heavy B.W. gale and the bar being very rough. She is expected to leave there to-night, should arrive at Waitara to-morr-ow morning, and will leave as advertised, to-morrow evening, for Onehunga. Captain Edwin- telegraphed at 1.16 p.m. to-day i— " Indications for very cold to-night." The s.B. Penguin leaves Manukau tomorrow morning, is due the same evening, and sails for Wellington shortly after I arrival. It is not often that anybody.receives too much money, in mistake, from a bank teller, still less often that a teller makes such a mistake twice in one day. Such a case bus, however, been brought under the notico of the JSapier Tehgraph. A. wellknown contractor went to iiis bank and asked for five five-pound notes beside other cash. He got his bundle of noton and coin, left the place, and went and paid some of his men ofli. One of them opening his roll, discovered that one of the notes instead of being a five was a twenty. He mentioned it, and two other men discovered a similar mistako had been made in their case. The attention of the employer was drawn to the fact,' and he then discovered thut instead of reoeivmg five fives, he had received five twenties— £loo, instead of £25. He immediately retraced his stepß, and informed the cashier of his mistake. The gentleman became so conf used on hearing of his blunder that he scarcely knew whut he wbb about, and instead of giving the contractor five fives, having the " twenty" still in his mind, handed over twenty-fives, making ub bad a blunder as before. The contractor shoved the money back agaiD, and told the cashier ho had put his foot in it again. He eventually got the money be required, and left the bank-mun so mixed up that he did not know whether he wiw standing on bis head or heels. This is a fagt,