Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7697, 21 March 1887, Page 2

Telegraphic.

(PER UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.) . Auckland, March 10. . Theresas' another midnight alarm of five last night. The fire was' found to be in a grocer's shop and dwelling house at the corner of ■ Pitt" 'and. West streets, oc-: -cunied by J. Waving".' The" building and contents were totally destroyed. The Fire. Brigade succeeded in preventing itsspread. Insurance on the building, £100 in the Royal . Stook office, and J £50 in the Norwich Union office. • The ypnug man Ayres, who. poisoned . himself in a brothel yesterday, died in the ' hospital at midnight. The inmates of the house delayed for three hqnr.3 before sending for help. The reason* 1 for his taking; poison'has not been disclosed. -.-,.. The body of a man was found this morning in Butohor's stable-yard, and was identified as that of a young man named George Clarko Gibson, his parents ]and family living here. He had apparently fallen in a fit, face downwards., and was . smothered in the stable mannve; Captain M'Donald, of the Ponsonby Rifles, intends if lie finds legal ground for an action, to take proceedings for illegal -arrest. A member of the legal profession lias given an opinion that the arrest of. the officers of the Ponsonby | Rifles was illegal on the ground that' Lieut. -Colonel. Mahon'a oommand never constituted a legal battalion, there being only Aye companies. Mr. Eade's house,- Oraki-road, was burned down to-night. The insurance is unknown.. . . . . Mr, James Simpson, the missing Cambridge tradesman, lias not yet been found. It is suggested that he may have left for Sydney by last Tuesday's steamer, but this seemss improbable. His friends fear he has been drowned. Lake Tekoutu lias been dragged and a charge of dynamite' put in the water and' discharged, but the' efforts of the "party engaged in the operations were without result. A large search party is to start to-morrow to carefully examine the whole neighborhood of Cambridge, as it is supposed by some he might have died in the scrub. At a parade of the Devonport naval artillery Colonel Lyon gave las decision in the case of Petty Officer Findley, against whom charges of insubordination were preferred by Captain Penton. Colonel Lyon said that owing to the surrounding circumstances he would take no further action. A disorderly meeting of the company took ' place afterwards on linancial matters. One officer denounced the secretary as ' "a thing," and threatened to wring his neck. . , • Sunday, The insurance on Mr. Eade's house, which was burned down last' evening, is £100 in the New Zealand office. The tenant Murray is a school teacher at the public school, Tamaki West. The furniture was insured' for £200 in the Liverpool and London office. Mr and Mrs Murray were away visiting .at the time. The cause of the fire is believed to have been a defectively-constructed kitchen chimney, which when the fire occurred broke off short. Eade's and Murray's loss over the insnrance is £100 each. Not Plymouth, Saturday. The natives who have assembled at Parihaka have been feasting during the past few days. No speechifying has taken place, Te Whiti keeping himself 'in seclusion. Te Whiti has ueen having the native land fenced in with wire fencing, "and i some portions are set apart for . families, ■Wellington, Saturday. In the R. M. Court the point was raised that some of the Auckland oysters seized by the police were not rock-oysters'; hecause they grow on the kelp. Witnesses for the prosecution said they were rockoysters plucked in the close season, and put into mud. The case was adjourned to get evidence of Dr Hector, as an expert, as to whether they werereallyrock-oysters. The ship Western Monarch, which arrived from London to-day, and the : Brier Holme, from Liverpool, experienced : very heavy weather oft' the English coast, ; off Dungenesspri the 'Bth December. The ■ Western Monarch had a narrow " escape from going ashore in a heavy gale, and ; the . captain put into the Roads, but in coming to an anchorage the storm raged so heavily both the anchors -parted and the ship was only saved by the assistance of the tug Victor, The IJrier Holme had been out a week when sho experienced ' heavy weather. On the 9th December a terrific squall struck her, heaving the ship oh her beam ends. The port side of (he deck was completely submerged for about twenty minutes. The same day a heavy sea broke over the ship forward, doing considerable damage, gutting the galley and forecastle, taking tlio covers oil" the ■ fore hatch and fore companion, breaking tho mast coat of the fore-mast, and starting (he forward house and fore part of the deck. A considerable quantity of water c went bolow, taking everything movable 1 oft" the deck, a quantity of seamen's effects c being washed overboard. The sailmaker t was severely injured; On going below it i' was found that the cargo \u the fovehold ( had shifted , and several kegs of bicarbon- ' v ate of sada' had their heads' off. The c heavy' weather lasted \mtil tho 18th v December. -.-.." •. . , I '■ ■ 'Sunday. ( T!;g Lyttelton case was resumed in tlio,. -ii Supreme Court yesterday.;' The jury -I were not present, having been discharged V until Monday! as their presence, was not a necessary while the Court was dealing ii wit;h law points only, The Attorney- f<

General submitted, the .following, non- - -■•"•'_-, suit points: — That the incorporation of . ":'•;'.■>-•.-■ tho'company was not proved; that no ; v ; . ; propor notice of action was given by the ' y,'-\-'j •'plaintiffs; that there was no proof of Mr ■-■'■ '"■ , ■-■Ritchie's authority to employ Maude to ; ■ .'.. _■'-/ serve notice on Mr -Moody, the then V ". chairman of "the Board ; that the . authority of Mr Ritchie to give notice - - of action was only so far as the ship was. ■ ■;■ concerned, amWiad nothing to do .with the cargo ; that, the" owners of the. ship could not sue for; tjie value of tho; cargo; ' . that assuming tlie'Board had authority to .appoint pilots, pilotage", not being compulsory Captain-:* Storm -became the - commander of the ship, find' ceased for the time being. to bo in the service. of the ; . Board ; that the Board ;had_ no power to : : appoint pilots, no" pilotage district having been constituted at Thnarii, and therefore any appointment of p~ pilot was iillmvires anil the Corporation .was not liable ; that no actionable negligence had been proved; that Captain Storm'sserviceswere gratnitons, nnd consequently lie was only liable. . in case of gross negligence, { which had . not been proved ; that if. negligence had been proved.tliere was contributory negli- . . gence on the part of the master of the 'Graf ton; that all that had been proved against' Captain" Storm was; to use the words of the leading counsel on the other side in- opening. the case, "an error of : judgment," which- was -.not actionable. Mr Joynt followed, his argument' being in relation to the application of the bye- - - laws of the Board. Mr Harper was reply- , • 4^ ing to the argument when Ms Honor said .' '; he would consider the' points raised and inform counsel on Monday ..whether ..it : . would be ne'eessary for Mr- Harper' to ; reply." It was quite possible that, not-; withstanding the weight of. the Attorney-, • : General's remarks, his 'Honor might not' ; ■ consider it necessary- to. call- upon ; Mr- • -; Harper to reply. He, however, considered . ■ the rioints "raised as; to- negligence and as to the right of. the'eompany to sue very' important. ' The Court adjourned until : ' 10 o'clock- on Monday. , .'-' : ..: - .:. Geeymouth, Sunday.. ..;: The body of Robert Kettle, a well-to ; do. ■ . master baker, was- found. dro>yned ; in;' Sawyer's creek this "afternoon, lie had; . " been missing since last Tuesday night, when he went into the bakehouse. His sons and' friends had been searching ,iqv him since without finding a traceolhini.; . It appeare that for some little time before ." -.. the fatal 'act he experienced a feeling of .-."." mental irritation or nervous depression, Ho was not worried by pecuniary or. domestic causes. He must have walked from his house to the creek, his footprints on the bank and on the soft ground oeing : ■ still visible. He was a staunch teetotaller - and had been so for 15 years. ..•-.'•; • .. / . Dunedin, Sunday. ■ . Very little' interest was taken in^ the : Parliamentary Union, . only 15 members turning up af. the "preliminary meeting . • last night. It was. however, decided to • continue the meeting. ' - - -• • A cricket . match ' between the leading , • , ■ clubs— the Plioeriix and Carisbrook — was . . won by thePJicenix by-113riins^ •..'.'•- The ■Dunedin Club '.' won.. the bowling' -'" match' against the Caledonian Club byv ■ 119 to 90. .•■ - ... ' - ;: , .;.. ;'