SPECIAL Auckland Telegrams. (Prom onr own Correspondent.) NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. SALE OF TOLLS. MORE CAPITATION MONEY IMPOUNDED.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 483, 24 June 1875, Page 2

SPECIAL Auckland Telegrams. (Prom onr own Correspondent.) NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. SALE OF TOLLS. MORE CAPITATION MONEY IMPOUNDED.

Wednesday evening. Tljp^u? T^ranbki h as arrived from the South, and i% jSJfl^rornS^^iafc Mr SThort \fefertbura^tre*eseftpe of himself and his wife from ruin, caused by the falling of the chimnies, to the fact that Mr Lewisson had just previously induced him to come out to get a glass of beer. Ho says if he had been a Good Templar he would have been a dead man. The sale of tolls resulted as follows :— No 1, Mr Clayton, £79; 2, Hyarth, £17 5s : 3, Megarvy, £65 ; 4, Lupton, £5 7s ; 5, Stringer, £62 , 6, Kirby, £15 10s ; 7, Me Shane, £51 8s ; A. S. P. Company, £35 9s ; 9, A. Barnes, £85.

The subject of street tramways is exciting some attention. There are great complaints of the carelessness shewn in the discharge of cargoes. Newcastle has shipped to New Zealand £7,000 worth of coal in one week. Two more 24 pounders have been removed to Nelson. The settlers of Pukekohe at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution in favor of memorializing the General Assembly, for reform in the existing railway management. It is the intention of the Government to arm the Constabulary and Volunteers with the Sni lor rifle. The cavalry and artillery will have Snider carbines. The change is expected to be completed before the next annual prize tiring. A Pukekohe settler, named Alexander Scott, has died at the Provincial Hospital, of typhoid fever. A new and extensive Kauri gum field has been found up Puru creek. The Cl'ty Council has addressed a letter of condolence to the relatives of the late Thomas Macready.