TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1372, 30 July 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PKR UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, July 30. Michael Lunny was committed for trial for shooting at George McGuire.

A Sanioan boy, aged 12, who was discovered as a stowaway on the Arawata, has been adopted by a benevolent lady. Quite a number of applications were received for him. He stated that ho ran away liom Fiji through ill-treatment. DUNEPIX, July 30. The Hon. J;ir. Patterson, lounerly M.L.C., died yesterday.

Tho New Zealand Refrigerating Com piny report the profit for the year to be £-2024, out of which it is proposed to pay a 10 per cent, dividend, aud to cany forward £209.

The U^slyn Tram Compr.nv are able to declare a dividend of 5 per cent. A reduction on the accident account absorbed iuo*t of the profit hithoito.

The inquiry into the fire at McFudden's boot shop was conc'ndel, the jury returning a verdict that there was not sufficient evMenceto sliow how the fire occurred. McFadden informed the police that he thought that he was insured to the extent of i'4oo. In giving his evidence he stated that the vaine of stock when the fire took [dacQ was £G(KJ. He said he paid his rent weekly, but waa fourteen weeks in arreav. His landlord had not pressed him, though he understood he hn? put bailiffs into the pla~e about two days' ago. He thought his total liabilities were about i-108. The va'uators in giving evidence as to the value ol stock, one gave it at £318, and thought i-70(J would pay for it twice over ; another valued the stock and fixtures nt £375, and still another places it ot X3GO.

CHRISTCHUJKCH, July 30. At the inquest on Mrs. Gutherine Recs, who dind Hiddenly on Wednesday, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against her husband.' The deceased had been ailin,' for s.une time from pulmonary consumption, and had been subject to rough treatment by her husband, which, according to the medical evidence, hastened her death. Bees was arrested.