LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5380, 13 May 1879, Page 2

LAST NIGHTS TELEGRAMS.

[By Special Wire.l Mr Hatton's House at Mastertbn was burned down on Sunday. It was insured in. the National for £300, but the loss is estimated at £600. The circumstances cause suspicions of incendiarism. I With regard to the destruction -by fire on Sunday of the house of ;Mr Abraham Phillips, at Kaiw,arra;.near Wellington, Mrs Phillips only left the house on Saturday. It is said that some of the furniture was removed 'on : that day,' r arid that the premises have been three times on fire within the. last fortnight. . ,; , . ... ; . . . ! In the Wellington Police Court tp-j-day (Monday) Henry' Anderson, 'editor' of : the Qhronicle, was charged with assaulting JR. 0«: Easby,. blind-maker, with a pair of tongs, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The magistrate 'said it was a serious charge, and mußtbe treated as an indictable offence. Easby' s evidence was to the.effefjfc that, had sued Anderson, and on Saturday night he called andfteadered.i the money; but. Easby refused, it j saying < the matter was in the hands of -his ; solicitor. An ■ altercation ensued, result- 1 ing in Anderson' knocking Easby down. Mrs -Easby. came to the rescue; and a! further' scrimmage ensued, 'a lamp being knocked over, and Easbyi ailing Beneath Anderson over a fender. ,- Anderson then, seized the tongs', and struck Easby a 1 severe blow qn the ; forehead* sayiiighe, would, murder him. Easby "then boltecT." 15 His faje was fearfully battered, and Anderson had, some; nasty. outs. Anderson i has laid: a. oross. charge of similar assault. The case was adjourned to Wednesday. , ' - ' - : ■ •'' -'-■-■ ■• L. Several fresh cases of typhoid' fever have occurred in Timaru within' the last ; . few days, but during the last month there has been a sensible decrease' in the number of fever patients within the" borough. - .: . r . •' Six new' bankrupts h'aye filed in. the District Court at Timaru. ; A whale, measuring 22 feet in length; was washed ashore ; onKaiapoi beach last Saturday. It had apparently been shot at sea. . . •■- ' „.<•-■• ;, ; [ A man named Patrick ■ Kooney was arrested near Timaru^iast Saturday, ona : . charge of resisting the removal of grain from the premises of P." Jones, Blue Cliffs. Jones had lately beobme bankrupt, and a firm of auctioneers in Timaru 1 had a lien over ,his crops. , Rooney.had been employed oh a farm by Jones, who owed him the sum of £69.' When a person engaged by the auctioneers went to remove.the grain Epouey resisted, and stated that there would be blood shed before he allowed the grain to be removed iwithout first obtaining the money due to him. The matter was referred to the police md Rooney was arrested. He was, however, dismissed by the R.M. An inquest was held at Ohristchuroh ; ,this (Monday) morning on the body of i)r. Marks, when a verdict was returned 'that he died from the effects of poison administered by his own hand. . The contents of the stomach, were not analysed;' ' the verdict, was given on a letter left, by the deceased. ; A< sad case . of drowning occurred^ at Oamaru- on Sunday.: A little" boy named Elliott -was v - missed in the afternoon, and though a strict search', was made he could not be found. This (Monday) morning his body was found in a concrete tank at the rear of his parents' house. It is supposed that he slipped through the trap, which' fta'd'b'een .left unfastened. '" ' ■■" '" i A public meeting was held in WWe- r lington this (Monday) evening, for the 1 ipurpose of promoting the establishment of f a, public library in that oity. ; : Mr Walter Johnston was in the chair. A resolution in favor of the ■project^ was 'carried, and a committee was appointed jto devise a scheme. - ■ • i: The Wellington Chronicle says that a ! private letter from California, reoeived :per City of Sydney, contains the following : — " We are going to have the biggest ever gathered in' this State.,. iThe produce is simply enormous. We v Swill be able to ship, grain to Auckland' ■ .and undersell the local produce." | Mr Woolcock,. M,H.R., is reported |seriously,ill in Wellington., . ..,. : ]; • The Court of Appeal opened, its sittings, in Wellington this day (Monday). All the Judges were present. ; : The telegraph officials throughout the. ; colony have subscribed .upwards of £100 l to' the Kaitangata relief fund. ,][[, ," ; N. J. Isaacs, auctioneer, of Wellington, 1 has made an assignment of his estate to j Mr J. S. M. Thompson. ; Tlio Government have received a cablegram announcing that the first instalment of the new Darwin and Singar poro duplicate cable leaves by the steamer Edinburgh in a fortnight, and that another portion follows by the Scotia ' soon af tor. , The whole of the cable is being rapidly manufactured/ The caseis boing protootod from, marine insects by brtiss tape, and the external wires are caoh protected first by ta P e > and ther J the.' wholo again by two coverings of. tttpo. MURDER BY A MAORI. A tolegram received in Auckland late yostorday afternoon, f romHoManga, states that Mr Hardiman has reported that a : native named Rawiri; living at Wairba, near Mr Hardiinan's place, shot his wife' dead last night in a fit of jealousy. " The, man,bolted to the bush. No further particulars are yet to hand, A NARROW ESCAPE. Last Saturday, as the 5.55 p.m. train from Lyttelton to Christchurch was passing through the tunnel, a man named John Hughes, who was standing outside> on the carriage platform, lost his hat, and making a hasty move to catch it, overbalanced himself and fell into the tunnel. He was not missed at the time, and the train went on. On getting through the tunnel into the light Hughes was missed by the other passengers. An alarm was given, and the return train from Christchurch proceeded slowly through the tunnel. A party also searched from Lyttelton, but only the man's hat could be found. Later on it was discovered that Hughes had hugged the wall closely when he fell, and the other portion of the train passed him,' paf ely. i' 1 ■

Although muck shaken and ojit about the head,he followed upjthe team quickly, , and^achiu-g the end of the funnel safely : he'walkedito Heathcote station..- •