TELEGRAMS.
(PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, October 12. ' A house belonging to Henry Crainer, at Rocky Nook, was burned down last night. It was insured for £50;ia the South British i total loss, £250. , , . , < At a general 'meeting of the South British Insurance Company the report stated that the income for last year was £243,631, and the expenditure £235,038, leaving a balance to. credit of profit and loss account of 49593. - The; directors recommended a dividend of 4 par cent, for the last half- year. . . ■AUCKLANILOctober UK A distrefls'in'g suicide has 'occurred at Parnell. A married woman named Louisa Osborne;: hanged herself with a clothesline whilst Tier family were absent. " When the steamer Balmoral Castle, which arrived from Loqtdon on Saturday, was three days' out from Home, the dead body of a man was found in one of the coal-bunkers. He bad evidently stowed himßelf away, and had been suffocated by coal dust; i > ■ Germans, named W. Bargotte, Carl Bargotte, H. Hench, and Jean Wallick were bhrnght up at the Pnpakura ,R.M. Gourt, charged with being concerned 1 in the recent eviction case at Papakura Va,Hey, and with assaulting White. They were committed for trial.
A woman named -Maty O'Connor, the mother pf the child, recently found r dead near the Thistle IJoieU was, brought up at the Police 'Coori, charged with manslaughter. The oase wffif remanded until Wednesday r next; Bail was allowed — Accused in £#00, and two sureties of £250 each j but as sue was unable to obtain .the sureties^ she was 'compelled to go to gaol to await the trial. ,, l A petition to the House of Representatives praying for the extension of the I franchise to seamen, and the' prohibition !of 'employment of colored* labor upon coasting vessels, is being extensively signed. •
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1753, 13 October 1887, Page 2
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297TELEGRAMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1753, 13 October 1887, Page 2
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