NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9307, 7 January 1896, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, January 6. At the inquest on the body of Sheehan, who was drowned at the City Saltwater Baths, the verdict was " Accidentally drowned." The jury regarded the baching platform as nnaafe for non-swimmers.

Alley, who escaped from gaol, was captured to-night by Chief-Detective Grace in a house in Stanley street. Mechanics Bay, after a sharp tussle single-handed. It has been ascertained that since his escape he has been living io a gully in the Domain aud been fed by bnya till Saturday nighr, when he became a lodger in the house where he was captured. Alley had £2 16s and proper clothes on, so he must have beea assisted in some way or other by sympathisers. WELLINGTON, January 6. The Qatette extraordinary issued to-day farther prorogues Parliament till the 12th March. The average rainfall in Wellington lost year was one of the heaviest that has been recorded here. There were 184 wee days, the total raiafall being 61.42 inches. The Lauds and Survey department is sending a first class collection of hand* somely framed photographs of New Zealand scenery to the Australian Industrial Exhibition at Ballarat. DUNEDIN, January 6. There was a terrific thunderstorm at Arrowtown on Saturday. Ac Miller'a Flat the forked lightning destroyed all the fencing for half •α-raiie, making deep trenches in the ground. The current struck a weatherboard house owned by Mr William Scoles, burning it up completely. There were no inmates at the time.