TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1697, 9 August 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(PKESS ASSOCIAIION.)

WELLINGTON, August 9

It has been decided to wind up the Young Men's Christian Association. An effort will be made, however, to keep the Sunday evening meetings going. It is understood that the collapse is due to the want of funds and slackened interest la the objects of the association.

The Native Minister has given instructions to increase tbe Constabulary post at Opunake to nity men, which was its original strength, and fourteen extra men will be sent from here to-day or to morrow.

The storm has blown over, and, with sunny weather, it promises to be a fine day and dry ground for the football match with Canterbury, which is just now the all absorbing topic in athletic circles. Over two inches and a half of rain fell yesterday and the previous day.

AUCKLAND, August 9.

The two jockeys Carey and Green, accused of placing a truck on the railway line at Ellei'6lie, were dismissed, the evidence beiu^ insufficient.

The annual meeting of the Cambridge Cheese aud Bacon Factory, showed a loss of £30 on the years' transactions.

Mrs. Anson, a passenger from Sydney by the s.s. Rotomohaua, lost £250 worth of jewellery, the matter being reported to the police next day. Geo. Clure, said to be formerly a member of the armed con■tabulaiy, wa& arrested today on a charge of stealing the jewellery.

A man named Staines rode into Hamilton yesterday on a sorry- looking horse to witness the volunteer parade. Attention was called to the condition of tbe horse. and Staines was charged with cruelty to animate, when tbe constable recognised in him a man who bad been wanted in Auckland ior some time for larceny as a bailee of .£2O from the Auckland Timber Co. Accused was fined £5 or one month's imprisonment for the first offence, and was remanded to Aucklaud on the other charge.

A domestic servant named Caroliue Windsor, aged 18, in tbe employ of Northcrolt, Resident Magistrate, Hamilton, dropped down dead to-day. Up to the time of the occurrence, she had been in apparead good heato. According to the doctors, she died from apoplexy. The coroner held an inquest, but refused admission to the Press, and this has been tbe cause of considerable dieatisfaction.

On Saturday last, at Whangarei, a storekeeper named Lingard essayed to cross the Hikurangi river on horseback, but, owing to the floods from the recent rains, was swept off his horse, aud drowned. He leaves a wife and two children.

At an inquest on the boy Gleeson, drowned at Mount Eden, it was elicited that the child had never spoken since its birth, and was subiect to St. Vitus' dance. The verdict was accidental death.

Mr. Tole had a rowdy meeting at Newton )ast night. Questions were not answered, and great dissatisfaction was expressed. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried by a small majority. At one time it appeared as if fights would take place between Tole's supporters and his opponents, but, fortunately, nothing ot tbat nature occurred.

DUNEDIN, August 9.

The Resident Magistrate decided to-day, that the City Council, as the Contrail board of Health, were liable for fees to medical men for reporCfag cases of inStclions diseases.

GHRISTCHURCH, August 9. A girl was drowned in the Waimakariri. She was the daughter of Larsen, a settler at View Hill.

LYTTELTON, August 9. Sir R. Stout addressed a crowded meeting, concluding amid great cheering. A hearty vote of thanks to Sir R. Stout for bis speech and confidence in bis Government was proposed and carried amid cheers. A resolution was then proposed and carried, " That this meeting pledges itself to support any candidate who will promise to support the Stout-Vogel Go-