TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5392, 27 May 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By Special' Wire.l The' Governor gave an official Birthday dinner at Wellington on Saturday night, at which Ministers, tho Judges, and a; number of members of each House were j present. . . '. Sir George Grey returned to Wellington ■ by the Hihemoa yesterday morning. ■ i The body of a drowned man has been I found near Island Bay, Wellington. There; is no clue to his identity. ; A hut on the Blueskin-road, Otago, belongiug to P. Fre'derickj was burned, down ou Friday night. It was insured' for £50 in the New Zealand. Office, „ Three wpoden buildings „i n jjhindas, were destroyed by fire on Sunday night, through the bursting of a kerosine lamp : on a counter of Mover's, store. The' insurances are.: Moyer's store, building in South British, amount unknown; stock £400, -and. furniture £100 in the Standard ; and vacant cottage, £70 in the South British. It is not known whether; the other cottage was insured. ! A fatal accident of a distressing nature occurred at Qanaaru on Saturday night. . M r James White, with Mrs. and Miss White,. left town to drive to their residence outside the town about 9 o'clock ; whe n near the Hon. M. Holme's place, owing to the darkness the trap slipped over the bank, and fell on top of the occupants. Mr, and Mrs White soon extricated themselves, but it was found that; their daughter was dead; ; Miss White was only seventeen years of age. , An inquest was held yesterday on the ; body of ' a girl named Goodman 1 , who, died on Friday at her father's house, Sydenham, from typhoid fever.- The evidence showed that her parents had. not reported the case, nor called in a medical man, as they were afraid of the expense,; until Friday, when the girl became so ill: that a. doctor was. procured. She 'died before he could arrive. A verdict of death from natural causes, was returned, the jurs adding a rider to the effect that: the parents had been carelessly but not wilfully culpable. ■ . . Lewis Leslie, proprietor of a- fruit and. oyster shop at Christchurch which was burned on Saturday, has been arrested on a charge of setting fire to tho premises. He left at 1 o'clock with another man and two girls employed on the premises, and on the plea of having forgotten his money returned to the place and struck a light. The middle door was barricaded with oyster tubs, and a lot of rubbish was under the staircaso, where the nre originated. The place "was gutted, but only the top storey was actually burned. Tho stock was insured. A volunteer review and sham fight took place at Auckland yesterday, and everything went off successfully. At the Auckland Police Court yesterday the charge against Sarah Galbraithj of concealment of birth, was heard, »n$ |

the prisoner was discharged with a caution, as there was no evidence to show that the: child ever lived. It was born in bed, andX'^as taken to the water-clp's6^. ; where it was found. " \j>y : Salmon have been seen in several of this;; i streams, in Taranaki. £f,: '■ Andrew and Jane Beid, husband and; wife, who were recently convicted bfaly" grog selling in the Dunedin Police Court, were yesterday apprehended at Green Island, and lodged in gaol under sentence of three months' hard labor; in default of payment of £50 each, the fine imposed by the Court. A. man named Daniel McSweeriey was v knocked down .on Saturday night by a passing train as he was walking close to the Dunedin railway line between Sawyer's Bay and the, St. Leonard's station. He - - receiyed some severe injuries to his ribs; and was taken to the Dunedin Hospital. * . The Dunedin Age states that a breach of promise of marriage case will shortly occupy the' 1 ■ attention : of : 'the , Supreme-. I Court Judges. The case presents the< ; unusual feature that the gentleman id the ' plaintiff and not the lady. He- claims: £1000 damages from the_ fair deceiveiv The auit ia likely to excite considerable ' • interest, and some amusing revelations are' looked for. ' ", ; ,