SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

' Press AB3ooiatioh.J ; ; i; ;'i ■ --Auckland, Saturday; ..John Ayrea, '.'jeweller, . charged with breakingand. etstaring - Meaare Long and Hart's' promises' last , year, . and stealing therefrom'.£loß ,worth'r.of jewellery, was discharged to-day without a' stain on his character. . : ' ' Wellington, Saturday. . By a fire at Otaki this morning, tho stores of Mr Cotterell and of William Smith : were 1 destroyed. ; The' latter is a Chinaman, and. for some time back had carried on an extensive business at Otaki. The Colonial Insurance. Go. has received a cable message from the Melbourne Underwriter's: Association,' stating that the barque Lo'clinagar, for the safety of which fears were entertained, arrived at London on May, 2nd : •./ The; sum available for distribution in Waring 1 /. .baiikriipt,, estate ',18 £14,000, principally derived from the sale ,:..The creditors'sill receive about' 8b in' the' £~'.!'

; Tliej Colonial Treasury, acknowledges the receipt of £140 from someon? in New. South i^aleaj'wKd' spates' tliat' mdny Vyaara ago he wronged the Goyernmont of New Zealand of that amount.' .; ' i -' ; f '

Major Cautley ; and Major Bodhara,, of the Defence Department, proceeded South to-day. ..'' '! ' V'' , The local woollen company is about to commence' erecting factory buildings. ~ The Wellington., Football Union have

decidcd to send a team to the South, leaving here in 1 J'qlyi' v f -■ ■ The police,"it-is understood, have a olue to the perpetrators of,the jewellery robbery at Jenneßj -and »one arrest has been made,;biii the.pplioo.believe that there are several 'confederates, and until further arrests 'are f made deoline, to give particulars, -'T.he arrest waa made iu Ohriatchurch, and the discovery made through the pawning of a watch, the number'of which! Jennes was not able to identify. ' ■ j.-'Viv :■ Sunday; The police have made two ; arrests in connection with the late jewellery robbery hero, viz,, John Davis, a mullato, at Wellington, and a ; young named Appondalo, 'at Lytt'eitop, 'The latter had been employed at the Te Aro Hotel, and on the room ; which, ho had occupied being searched, a ooqple of key-hole sawß were found, also a gimlet, and it is said that in a carpet bag lying in tho room some of the miaaiqg property wail discovered. The police are very reticent, The loan agents telegraphs that the now loan is quoted at 2 per cent, premium. The Government have also received instructions that Russia has accepted the proposal of England,, and that '* peace "is assured, • (JisßOpE, Sunday. John Thomas, of New Plymouth, has been appointed Harbour at £800 a year. •" •,! : OniHSTOI{DnOH, Friday, ' At! its meoting to-day the Canterbury ' Chamber of Commerce resolved to intorest ; tho other Chambers of; this and the Ausj tralian Colonies in a combined ofEort to ; Ireduoe the ohargq'on oable messages sent

by the New Zealand ■ line. The Chamber also "resolved to send to the South Sea Islands to enquire, in the interests of thio part of the Colony, into all matters of commercial interest there. The cost to bo borne by subscriptions raised in Canterbury. The Women's Gospel Temperance Union, organised here by Mrs Leavitt, has resolved to take vigorous action in the city .and suburbs. They have been divided into districts for the purpose of a house to house canvass by the ladies, and public meetings will be held monthly. CHRtsTCHDKOH, Sunday. A man has been arrested at Lyttelton on suspicion of being concerned in the Wellington jewellery robbery, At present it is deemed advisable, not to publish particrilare.

Thomas Howe, formerly time-koopqr on the Lytteltob railway, .and .eight other aro charged with defrauding Government by : means of Howe--;giving the .others'. crpdit : ,;fQr doing wnrkwhich, they- had' never., performed- 1 ,; The .exact amount'of defalcations is not known, but it ie, believed to.be some hundreds of pounds ; ; Howe'was, arrested in Wellington. and arrivedhero yesterday. ,■ , Hawera, Friday. The only particulars re the Opunake fire, by which ■ Prosser's Hotel was destroyed, as yet to hand are that the fire commenced about throe o'clock at the west end of the building. Some shavings in Duffiel's furniture shop on the opposite corner caught fire, but it was fortunately discovered in time, otherwise there is no doubt several buildings between Duffiel's and Orowther's would have gone. The cause Of the fire is not known. The building was destroyed with extraordinary rapidity. The fire was first noticed about half-past three, and by four o'olock the building! was totally destroyed, there being a strong wind blowing : at the time. Whether the firp broke .outia the billiardroom orVtbe store-room appears to be. a mystery. A quantity of furniture was savedjbutnothiDgofanygreatvalue. :".;..'.Z,!! Marton, Saturday, •.Mr Riloyjan undertaker at Bulls, died tbis morning, through effluvia arising from the.corpae : of the Parawenui chief ,Kawana. Hu'nia, while placing it in the coffin last Tuesday. ; i; Donedin, Sunday. D. R. Hay has accepted ' a - challenge from the Canterbury Club to play a chess match by telegraph- between teams, of eight or ten a-side. . : ; Saturday.

. Stanley, who was. injured, through falling through a skylight at the City Hotel yesterday, died in the hospital this morning. John Aitken, settler at Outram, was found dead on.his farm this morning. The cause of death is believed to have been accidental.