SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2127, 21 August 1875, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(PEE i'rESS AOENCr.)

Tim abu, Friday. A fire at two o'clock this morning destroyed Webster's storo, Boardman's (milliners), BrickerstafFs, Taylor's, and Bedfern's shop, Tho fire broke out in BrickerstafF's. Webster was insured for £800. Other insurances are probably existing. The fire brigade was powerless owing to want of water. >

Wanoanui, Friday. A large meeting at Wairoa last night unanimously approved of the Government measures for immediate Abolition; and considered local administration and a central legislature would prove a great benefit to tbo colony,particularly tho outlying distric's. Dunedin, Friday, Tho result of the Caversham election is as follows:-Mr Larnach, 220; Mr Stout, 232, Majority tor Mr Stout, 12. This gives one vote to tho Opposition, as Mr Stout is a Proviacialiafc.—Captain Malcolm, of the.'Maori,' which arrived at tho Bluff last night from the West Coast ports, via Preservation Inlet, telegraphed that the man who started to walk overland from Preservation Inlet, over a month ago, had been picked up by tho sealers when eighteen days out, and taken back to Preservation, all well,