TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1042, 30 January 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

. +. (from our own correspondents.) Christchurch, January 27. The balance-sheet of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory shows a profit for the year of ,£{>o3 4. A dividend of 6 per cent has been declared for the halfyear, making 10 per cent, in all, and £1235, was earned forward. All the new shares issued when the company was enlarged have been taken up, and £25,000 spent on new buildings and plant, the total outlay on which will reach £30,000. The clothing factory * Is'alinoiliready tor worlTliiicrwill emr ploy 300 hands. The report and bal-ance-sheet were adopted unanimously. A furious nor' wester has been blowing all day, rising to a gale at times. New Plymouth, January 27. A deputation waited on the Premier to-day to urge the opening of the railway between New Plymouth, and the Premier replied that although the Government were fully alive to the importance of the work under reference, the matter would most likely be the cause of serious complicatioKS with the natives, perhaps upsetting the good results achieved by the recent coup de main of Parihaka. Dunedin, January 27. Particulars to hand respecting thf Queenstown fire point to Waldemand, baker, who is now in custody as the incendiary of a cottage in the outskirts of the town, and the police visited his place, surmising that some goods from the store might have been removed there, as Waldemand had been heard by neighbors hard at work all the previous night to the fire. The sergeant arrived at the cottage just in time to prevent another conflagration. He found the doors and windows well secured, but the sergeant, however, effected an entrance by the back window, finding a sheet of corrugated iron nailed over the inside. The reflection of a burning candle in the room attracted their attention, and upon inspection saw floor saturated with kerosene and tar ; a great quantity of matches was scattered all over and some brushwood, in the midst of which was fixed a burning candle. Several more candles had been stuck together, so as to last the desired time. The candles when discovered had burned down to within an inch of the brushwood and matches. The glare of the candles was curefully shaded by three sheets of iron, in addition to which the AvindoAvs of the room were nailed up with sheets of corrugated iron placed on the inside over tlje curtains and blinds, the whole arrangement disclosing tho most deliberate attempt at incendiarism imaginable.