NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8534, 26 July 1889, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON WAnTB ANOTHER LOAN Wellington, July 26. The City Coanuil intend to get a bill introduced this session enabling them to float a loan for cemetery purposes to the extent of £7500 without the consent ol the ratepayers. New drainage works are to be undertaken whioh will necessitate increase of overdraft. It is also decided to sell certain blocks on the reclaimed land in preference to leasing. DEATHS FROM TYPHOID. The prevalence of typhoid in Wellington is causing considerable alarm. Another victim sucoumbed to the disease this morning in the person of Mr Fulton, the engineer of the Manawatu Railway Co. Oaptain Saville, A.D.G., is improving. Lady Ooslow, Lord Granley, and Mr Garland left for Nelson yesterday afternoon in consequence of the epidemio, where they stay until the first week in August.

A Band of Hope meeting conducted by juveniles wilt be held in the Wesleyan Schoolroom to-night.

Four fully paid-up £25 shares in the Press Company, and twelve on whioh £20 10s each has been paid, were sold by auction at Christcturcb, and fetched £28 tbe lot.

Mr J. E. Fitzgerald, Auditor-General, is about to take a voyage to England on account of bis health. Mrs. and Miss Fitzgerald accompany hioj. It is said the} will be absent foir months. They left by the s.s. Doric on Thursday last. We learn that others who have means are making arrangements for clearing out of Wellington, amongst them several who are di awing large pension from the colony. The Hokitika bar is unfortunately in a worse condition at the present time than it perhapß ever has been previously, says a contemporary. The entrance is almost completely blocked. The Aorere is lying at Grayniomh, loaded for Hokitika, awaiting an improved turn of affairs. The storage accommodation at the Grey i» orowdad, and the Kennedy was compelled to bring her Hokiiika transhipment back to this port, thqre being no room for goods at Uraj mouth. | iThe comet discovered in Sydney oh Monday is said to be vinible in New Zealand . A correspondent to the Auckland Herald says : — "A telescopic view was taken at 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, and the coiuei'u heud was found to bo large but not sharply defined. Tbe tail waß invisible to the naked eye, but was viaiDJb in a email field-glues. During the. fbort time of observation, a rather rapid

motion of the comet was aaspeoted. If, as is probably the case, the oonet is approaching 'the sun, it pay be (clearly seen in the coarse of a night or two. It is at present in a rather blank part of the western sky, and farther observations are required before it can be known definitely whether it is approaohing or receding from the son." To-morrow Mr Newton King will hold iß n important 'sale of land at his mart, when the f aim at Bell Black now in the occupation of Mr W. F. Hoskin will be offered by auction at a very low upset. The farm, situated on the main read within easy distance of either * t New Plymouth or Waitara, is generally acknowledged to be one of the best in the district, being very level, well watered, fenced , and Bub-dividod. There is a large twostory dwelling, with a large detached cool and airy dairy, and the usual outhouses, stockyards, &c, on the property. To anyone in want of a good farm this is a chance not to be missed, as it is seldom that suoh a well-situated and highly improved property is submitted to public competition. Judging from the increased demand for land in this district within the last few weeks we shall expeot to hecr of brisk competition at the sale to-morrow.