TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1610, 27 April 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per puess association.)

WELLINGTON, April 24.

A bullet was fired into a house yesterday — accidentally, it is supposed. It went through a door, whence a child had just moved away, struck the kitchen stove, and ricochetted on to the wall. The police are investigating the matter. WELLINGTON, April 27. The s.s. Waitaki has been abandoned to the underwriters.

AUCKLAND, April 27.

Prendergast, who was convicted of the murder of his wife about two years ago at Pokeno, but who was sent to the Whnu Lunatic Asylum, has been removed to Mouofc Etleji /?aol. having recovered his reason.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 25. A proposal to celebrate the Queen'a Jubilee here by the erection of a Home (as proposed by Mr. Hulbert) is finding very substantial encouragement. Mr. D. C. Clarkson lias sent his cheque for .£SO, and a number of leading citizens and merchants have given promises of donations varying from ten to fifty guineas. •The list of such promises is rapjdly extending in length.

At a meeting of the Masonic District Grand Lodge of Canterbury, it was decided that it Avould be more consistent with tbe principles of the craft — benevolence and charity — that the Home proposal should bs masonically adopted as their form of celebrating the Jubilee. It wis also decided that the District Grand Matter should issue lists to the various lodges, and call upon members to contribute libsrally. Notice of motion was given, to the effect Ibafc the District Grand Lodge should, from its own muds, vote a sum towards the same object.