TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1356, 1 February 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. > Gißborne, 30. The South Pacific bore is now down 400 feet, and has got beyond ' '\o. papa rock, and into quartz^ which fains quantities 6( pyrites. In th ;.t 80 feet the oil is brought up in considerable quantity, the news causing some interest in Gieborne.

At i conference last night theH trough Council and Harbor Board Oth compressed in one body, and the look County Council appointed a joint lom'mittee to prepare a reconstruction j f the Board, and of harbor works, to „ übmit to Parliament next year. j Dtojbdin, 80. , ( The yearly report of the Coffee i ••alace Company shows an excess of ( xpenditure over income : -~. L' l3B 14s. i id., which, with dep:\.i : on at the i •ate of ten pet cent., t > s a balance j >f J8603 2s. 2d. to the de! .t side of the j m>tit. and loss* Th« ;j;npany thus i lave to call on the yr jprietor of. the : for his guaranty of £200 per i innuni. Napibr, 30. The ram fair opened to-day. Partly swing to the enormous number of sheep from all parts of the Colony which were yarded, and partly perhaps bo the scarcity of money, the prices obtained weve not. equal to the avera.ce of pas- years. The top price was 75 guineas" fov v ram bred by Mr Tanner. Pae of ai-dy's trough- 60 guineas; three 50 guineas ;■ and one of the N.Z. and Australian Land Company's 46 j guineas. The locally bred sheep were j in the ascendant, but M^nlove's and Button's Southland sheep will not be sold until to-morrow. Woodvillb, 81. A largely attended indignation meeting Was held last night on account of the Government removing the engineers to Taranaki, and stopping the survey of the Napier- Woodville line. Resolutions were passed protesting, against the action of the Government in thus breaking faith with the district, and urging the restoration of the engineers, and the prosecution of the works, and survey, as promised in the Public Works Statement Wellington. 81. The date of the nominations for the Selwyn district has been fixed for tomorrow w*ek, the Bth prox, and the poll will take place a week later, on the 15th proximo. ,' Auckland, 30. A destructive and fatal fire occurred last night at Haiapara. •> The cook and assistant at th« hot 1 whe^e the out break occurred were both bamt to de»th.«