TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 109, 1 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

I.UNITBD PBKBB ASSOCIATION. | Auckland, 30th May. Mr. Charles Bright has oommenoed leoturing here, under engagement to the Rationalistic Association, lie does not intend going South. John Ayres, jeweller, oharged with breaking and entering Levy and Hart's premises last year and stealing therefrom £108 worth of jewellery, w«a to-day discharged by the Benoh without a stain on bis character. Dunkdin, 30th May. Mr. D. R. Hay has aooopted a challenge from the Canterbury Club to play a oheßg matoh by telegraph between teams of eight or ten a sido. This Dat. A 6-roomed house in Union-street, occupied by Mr. Maggett, and owned by Mr. A. J. C Baber, was burned down this morning. The furniture was insured in the Viotoria for £150, and the building in the Norwich Union for £250. Some clothes which had been plaoed before tho kitohen fire to dry ignited and caused the fire. At the inquest held on Stanley, who fell through a skylight at the City Hotel, a verdict of Acoidental Death was returned, with a recommendation that a clause should be inserted in the city building regulations by whioh skylights should be guarded by iron bars at a sufficient distance to prevent anyone from falling through. Gibbobkx, 30th May. Mr. John Thomson, 8.E., of New Plfmouth, has been appointed harbour engineer, with a salary of £800 a year.