NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 90, 10 August 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Accklaxd, August 8. Among ihe through passengers by the Alameda Kas Mr Wragge, Government Meteorologist of Queensland, who will attend the International Meteorological Conference *t Paris. The Very Rev. W. J, Madden, who left for America by the inail steamer to-day, was presented with aJi illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns by the parishioners of St. Patrick's, Wellington, August 8. At the Supreme Court Louis Ormstein, for a breach of the Bankruptcy Act, in obtaining goods under false pretences, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and Leona Norton, for housebreaking, to three years. The Hon. 6. F. Richardson leaves for the South *o-morrow, and will tour his old constituency in view of the coming election. A woman named Kiely, said to be a widow, aged-about 43, was found dead in her house, Cambridge-terrace, today. She is believed to have been dead jgome three or four days. An emptfifeottle of chlorodine was found and it is said to be a case of The dead body found on Thursday - at, Makara has been identified as that of W. F. Ireland, an A.B. who" belonged to the barque Coromandel, now fugwigoH off the railway wharf. Deceased was an American belonging to Philidelphia, where his father is a doctor. He left his boarding-house on Jol« 18th without giving a hint of vhere he was going. He seemed rather down-hearted about not getting liMf money for his work on the Coromandel. The body was too much deto show whether death was due to starvation or not. The jury Sfcrpnght in a verdict of found dead-