TELEGRAMS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1925, 9 May 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAMS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, May 9.

The s.s. Stella surveyed the spot at Farewell Spit where the Ruapehu was reported to have grounded on her last trip, bufc found no shoal at the spot.

AUCKLAND, May 9.

A bush fire at Mauku, yesterday, resulted in loss of life, tbe victim being Alice Rae aged 18 months, the daughter af a settler.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 9.

At the inquest on John McKay, who committed suicide at Lyttelton by taking " rough on rats," a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. No reason for his committing suicide was adduced in the evidence, but it appeared that he had been in ill health lately.

TIMARU, May 9.

W. Campbell, a carter, was killed at "Washdyke, yesterday, by a tall from a stack, breaking his neck.

DUNEDIN, May 9.

The dense fog which prevails to day detained the Te Anau's arrival. She reached Port Chalmers at two o'clock, but it was five before she arrived at Dunedin. Some 200 or 300 persons, mostly young men with a good sprinkling of the larrikin class, were on the wharf. No attempt was made to land the Chinese passengers, and the officers of the vessel refused to give any information whatever as to their movements. It is expected they will be put ashore during the night.