TELEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4869, 19 March 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[I'EK PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, This day. There was another midnight alarm of fire last night. The fire was found to be in a grocer's shop and dwelling house at the corner of Pitt and West slreets, occupied by J. Waring. The building and contents were totally destroyed. The Fire Brigade succeeded in preventing ita[ spread. Insurance on the building, £100 in the Royal Stock office, and £50 in the Norich Union office. j A young man named Ayres, who poisoned himself in a brothel yesterday, died in the hospital at midnight. The inmates of the house delayed for three honrs before sending for help. The reason for his taking poison has not yet been disclosed. The body of a man unknown was found at daylight this morning in a yard in Napier-street. Deceased was aj)parently about 26 years of age. There'are no marks of violence, and he seems to have died in a fit, as his face was embedded in the earth. Wellington, This day. The defence in the Lyttelton case began this morning - , counsel claiming a non-suit on a number of grounds, principally that it was not proved the company was incorporated. No notice of the action had been given by plaintiff, the Board was not liable, and no actual negligence was proved. The jury were dismissed till Monday, while the points are argued. In the R.M. Court the point was raised that some of the Auckland oysters seized by the police were not rock-oysters, because they grew on the kelp. Witnesses for the prosecution said they were rock-oysters plucked in the clo3e season, and put into mud. The case was adjourned to get evidence of Dr Hector, as an expert, whether they were really rock-oysters.