NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 9493, 14 July 1896, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

(PBK PBESS ASSOCIATION.)

UKRIBTCHOBOH, Julf 13. The body of a woman, the wife of Mr Andrew Douglas Hardy, carpenter, was found In the Avon yesterday. She was last seen on Sotnrday night late near the river, bob there is no Information as to whether she got In by accident or otherwiie. Dsoeased wbb 59 years of age. A young Maori named Jjeiih Whltau •nioided owing to tha parents of a young half-cast girl, to whom he had proposed, refaslng to sanction the marriage as the girl was under age. Deceased first asked the girl to allow him to shoot her, promising to destroy himself. She persuaded him against thle, but later on a shot Was heard and the body found. Mr H R Webb was to-day re-eleoted Chairman of the Board of Governors of Can terba»y College. The board set op a ■peolal committee to consider the bills before Parliament and to take suoh stn a In relation thereto »s it might tbiuk fit. The Graduates Association wrote In reference to the bills stating that they thought they were entitled to elect at least one out of every three members of the board. Dtjnedin, July 13. John Eustace, rabbi' er, aged 30, com* mltted suicide by culling his throat at St Ba ( hans The post mortem on the woman Matson discloses the fact that the head was not battered by an axe. Auckland, July 13. In the Polioe Court five bookmakers named Tobias, M'Leod, Oleland and .assistant, M'Hattte, and Doig were fined L 5 and costs for keeping premises open for belting purposes. Tho carpenters and joiners of Anokland •re moving for 9a a day instead of the present rate of 8a and gave the Builders Association three months' notice. A man named Riohmond at the Pukuhia Station, dropped d ad. The College for Girlß, opened as an adjunct to the Methodist Prince Albert College, by the Mayor ost L2OOO. The proprietors of the Elte Minstrel Company were fined 5a and 23 1 cos's for using a child aged 4 years in a public performance at tha 1 Opera Houie in breach of the Children's Protection Act. Daf en dints pleaded guilty, but said that they were ignonnt of the existance of the law oa the mattar. - MABMETON, July 13 T E 'Tathan, proprietor of the floncawood station, East Coast, died suddenly r«ter6>j afternoon of •pdplexT. . 3gS»,

Wblihtgtok, July 13. Judge Edwards enters on his duties this week. Longhnan of Napier, and Morlson, of Wellington, , take over his a"atie«. New Plymouth, July 10. | The escaped convicts, Alley, Arkman and Lukosokaski were seen pisaing along the railway line through Stratford at 9 o'clock on Bunday night. An alarm being given, the men dropped their swags and escaped into the bush. The swags, were found to contain a complete outfit, evidently from Veale's store at Midhurst which was broken into last week. Arkman got a Bhake down and breakfast from a settler on Bird road, leaving apain at 7 o'clock on Sunday morning. The other two men called at a settler's house on the Climla road, representing bhemselves as special constables, and breakfast, and bad th«ir clothes dried. Acoording to Arkman's Btory he hjd parted with the otlnr two because they stated their intention of " doing for " anyone who tried to stop them. -They Btill have the warder's rifle. The country ib being actively patrolled by police and special constables, the Hawera mounted Rifles and other volunteers