Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9342, 11 April 1893, Page 3

Telegraphic.

"' W I [PROM A CORRESPONDENT,] f Auckland, Mopday. The seats tor the opening night of the London Gaiety Burlesque Company t were put np at auction to day at c D. Tonks and Co. 'a rooms, it heing t the first sale of the kind ever held in the i colony. AH the reserved stalls were . sold, and some of the seats brought as J high as 11s each. Over eighty of the t dress circle seats were Bold, and a great tush is anticipated when the box office opens in the morning. A number of ladies were among the buyers at the auction. The rooms were crowded. (PER TOOTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Monday. James Hayes, 76 years of age, slipped and broke his hip joint on the keibing on Saturday. He was taken to the hospital for medical treatment, and died this morning." The doctor gave a certificate of death from heart disease. The body of George Clarke, inspector j, of permanent way between the Mercer a and Mokau railway line, who has been missing since the 2nd, was recovered in the Waikato river yesterday. Clarke had been in the Government service for 18 p years, and was transferred from Otago to 1 Hamilton in August last. His life was E insnred in the Government office for £160. A four-roomed cottage at Onehuoga, rented by Louis Carl Marten, was partially destroyed by fire last night. It A was insnred for £70 in the Standard D effice, and the furniture for £100 in the B Commercial Union. Ji Later. The new annexe which has been added to the Art Gallery to contain the pictures T and curios presented to this city by the v late J. T. Mackelvey was opened to day. t In the old gallery there has been placed jj the collection lent to the city by Neale and Kohimararaa; These pictnres, ar- **- rangejUwo deep, cover a wall 100 feet in length. They include works by Parmi- g giano, Pynaker, Algio, Plazzer, Edwin Ik Hayes, Piokersgitl, and Jnshna Homer. B Two pictures by the last named painter, "The Holy Family" and "The Descent from the Cross," are copies ot celebrated v palatiugs by -Titian and Alurillo. A well-known farmer in the Waikato district named John M'Nicol died yesterday in the Hamilton hospital of pneumonia, contracted through getting a V severe wettlne by falling into the Wai B kato river. The deceased was one of the jj largest sheep and draught horse breeders l in the Waikato. Sir Edwin Dashwood, whose death was announced by a cable message to-day, was well known in the Auckland district. He was horn in 1854 in Marlborougli, where his father owned a run, and for some years the deceased baronet lived in the North of Auckland, working in the c bast and on the gnmfields until he auc- o ceeded to the estates. He was married s three years ago to Miss Norton, a daughter t of Dr. Norton, of Northern Wairoa, I GIS.BORNE, Monday. n The aanual two- mile race between the St. - George's (Auckland) and ii the Gisborne Rowing Club's " rep."? " sentatlves was rowed thiß afternoon, £ and resulted in a win for the St. if George crew by half a length after a tight v race. The race Auckland v. Poverty Bay a Bowing Clubs, senior crews, resulted in I an easy win by two and a half lengths I for the Poverty Bay crew, who quite outmatched their opponents. t Wellington, Monday. f The hunting season was opened on Saturday-. E At the inquest on the body of the man ' Flanaghan, f rand in the harbor on Satur- i day, the evidence showed that deceased was given to d rink. A verdict of "Found ' drowned " was returned. ' Two tenders for the bedsteads to be used at the Porirua Asylum have been re ceived in Auckland ■ ' 7* A woman named Annie Corbetti was ] found in a house in a low street last night suffering from the effects of a dese of brandy and match heads. Vigorons ' treatment was resorted to at once, and \ against the hospital, and she is now recovering. In Greville v. Black, proprietor of the Fahialva Star, claim for damages for wrongful dismissal, judgment went for plaintiff for £100, and costs on the lowest scale. A woman was robbed of £14 in the Post-office Savings Bank this morning. A young man drew her attention to something on the floor, and then bolted with her money. He was seen by several persons, bat he is not yet apprehended. Later. -1 The Doric left Cape Town for Wellington last Friday afternoon. The mails were not affected by the fire on. hoard the Ruahine, hat the whole of the magazines and periodicals for Wellington were destroyed. She brought on 100,000 salmon ova transhipped from the lonic, bat it is feared that most of them will have been destroyed by the length of the v»yage. Mr J. ODea has been elected president of the Wellington Liberal Association. A respectably dressed young man, giving the name of Thomas N. Mills, was arrested to-night on the charge of stealing a number of watches in Sydney. It appears that the accused placed a valuable collection of gold and silver watches in the hands of a local auctioneer for disposal by auction, bub the small figures the man asked for them raised suspicion in the mind of the auctioneer, and inquiries being made led to Mills's arrest. The tender of Messrs Lyon and Blair, Wellington, for the anpply of 6300 volumes of books for the Free Public Library has been accepted. Christchcbch, Monday, Two tenders were received today for the right of pasturage for six months over 12,900 acres, the homestead and porthills block, Cheviot estate. — ■ "■ Later. George AlleD, a laborer, sometimes employed as a casual hand at the Adding- ■ ton railway workshops, was killed this afternoon while lopping trees on a private property on the Hajtfldean-road, Syden* bam. He is suppbSSi to bave jfalisn off a tree on to bit Bead, as bis neok was brokra; -, !

At the meeting of the City Council tr» ' night Councillor C. M Gray minutely traversed the Mayor's nmuicipal scheu ■ in detail, showing that hia figures vveio • wrong and the scheme generally unreli Me and impracticable. One or two oi her councillors who had been specially attacked by the Mayor all the pnblic meeting on Friday giive him a tllrecb challenge to resign and contest re-election with them. The proceedings ended without aiiy advance bsing made either way. Dunedin, Monday. The Supreme Court in occupied with the case of Bobning v. Ktiilniigila !«ilwuy Company, plaintiff dutming £500 damages for injuries received in working the mine with an alleged defective chain. The Sew Hoy Big Beach Company's yield for the week was 72 ounces of retorted gold. Later. In an action brought by Mr tiohnlng, claiming £500 damages from the Kai tangata Coal Company for an accident sustained in the company's mine, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant company, for whom judgment was entered up, At an inquest held to-day on the body of Jamea Reed, which was found in the harbor, a verdict of found drowned was returned. The deceased had no relatives here. He had at one time two brothers, one ot whom, a witness said, he believed committed suicide. An information has heen issued against the house surgeon of the hospital charging him with a breach of the Anatomy Act in permitting the removal of a body without the requisite 24 hours' notice being giren to the Inspector of Police.