TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1153, 26 February 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, February 26. It is understood from' information which has been received from San Francisco by Sir Julius Vogel that Sprecke'o Oceanic Company have bought from Pearce the sceamships Australia and Zealantlia. ;

Sir George Grey speaks at Auckland, this evening. ' ',''"' Three bankruptcy meetings toqk place to-day — thos6 of Messrs Nicjiol, Law, and Beresford. Reports will appear tomorrow. The tennis match, Married v. Single, will be continued to-morrow afternoon. One set has been played, in which, th.6 benedicts were . the conquerors. The handicap for the tournament will be made to-day. A match has been arranged with Patea, to be played on the 13th proximo, and a match with Opunake is content* plated. In former matches with Opunake, the Hawera team were beaten ; now, with Opunake weakened by losing some of their old players, our local men may score a win. At Christchurcb on Tuesday, John Taylor, plumber, of the firm of' Taylor and Oakley, got into a dispute, with his, next door neighbor, John Midgley, about a fence which the latter wished erected between their premises, and which Taylor objected to as .unsightly. : From high words they came to. blows,, and, Midgley fell and died almost immediately. At the inquest it was proved that after high words had been exchanged, Midgley left his ground and came on to Taylor's section and struck Taylor. The ' men fought for a minute or so, Taylor 'acting on the defence, till Oakley, his partner, came up and separated them. > Oakley '. said in his evidence : — After I had sepa-: rated them Midgley appeared, as near as I could tell, to be judging to make another attack on Taylor, and just as I ekpected* by his attitude, that he was about to zdake another rush, the man suddenly became i rigid : his hands suddenly closed; he seemed to alter in a moment. They were four or five yards apart, and, before Icquld pae« vent hiiH, he fell ywy heavily m >jj e asphalt on his face. I was between,taem when he fell. .As soon as the m^ii jell, ' I picked fiim«p arid turned him jm Ms fitce at once. r:X. concluded that 'he hid a' - fit." ; Tbe witnesses wpre nßura>'th»t nothing but fists were used on either side. Dr. Pairick.wKo "had made a'post nlortem ,■ examination, concluded; thatitße deceased J had died fiqom, apoplexy : :" that it «v the j excitement ot the copfljet which caused tbe apoplexy which caused him to fali« He had not the apoplexy because he Sell he was killed by 'apoplexy, and. 'not by a blow." The jury 'returned I 'a* verdict that Taylor did not exceed the limits of justification in seh!, defence, and thstt th«« t < * d«ath of Midgley .^Mjurred through { Apoplexy brought on by excitement. Taylor was formally cbargejfl' \?ith manalangm&T at the court, but was. discharged, rA * jjj F