TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1372, 10 March 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

: ♦— ; (from oor own correspondent. ) DUNEDIN, 7. Last evening an infant, about three months old, wrapped in a shawl, was left on the doorstep of Watson's Hotel. The police are making enquiries into the matter. The Eotorua, in coming up the Victoria Channel, refused to answer her helm smartly, and ran right into the bank, from which she did not get off, and there she now remains. She has 18 feet of water under her stern. She will get off when the tide makes. Auckland, 7. t It is reported that Mr Sheehan has decided to stand for the City North, instead of for Napier. Mr John H. Granger, of Granger and Debro, architects of Melbourne, is the successful candidate for designs for the public library and art gallery. He has applied for payment of the prize, but the City Council have refused compliance till a tender should be accepted within the limits stipulated, viz. £21,000. The members of the Roman Catholic body in the city are urging on their clergy the advisability of the establishment of a temperance organisation under the ssgis of the Church. Wanganui, 7. Volunteer Churton, who won the rifle championship at Auckland, at the recent,, meeting of the Now Zealand Bifle Association, and other representatives, arrived by the Stormbird tonight, and znet with an enthusiastic reception from the citizens. Between 3,000 and 4,000 persons assembled on the wharf to meet the steamer, Thames, 7. Very heavy rain fell here all last night and this morning, causing the various creeks to overflow and flood the town to an extent not experienced since the big flood, nearly three years ago. A shingle-splitter, named George Hill, was washed down the Taranu creek by the tremendous freshet, and his body has been found on the beach horribly mutilated. When last seen alive deceased was going towards the creek bed, with the intention of preparing shingle blocks, and immediately afterwards an immense torrent of water with amass of timber swept down the gorge and carried him before it.