TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 12, 7 May 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

» : [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [FEB HUBS ASSOCIATION.] CHBisTCHrsOH, May 5. At a meeting of the Provincial Government officers it was resolved that " This meeting being dissatisfied with the present action of the Colonial Government in withholding compensation granted to discharged civil servants under the Abolition of Provinces Act, resolves by every legal and constitutional means to assert, and, if neces. sary, enforce its claims*" An association was then formed to carry out the resolution in the best manner possible. Aitckiand, May &. The 5.9. Qoabead is likely to be got off the Poverty Bay bar without any serious damage. She was insured for £2000 in the North British, and £2000 in the New Zealand ; both re-insured. The analysis of tbe stomach of the woman wbo was supposed to have died from poison shows no trace of arsenic. A correspondent of the Star states tbat Hobart Pasha, the present Admiral of the Turkish fleet, served on board the Kaliope in New Zealand, and was known as the " Wild Midshipman," and on one occasion wae confined for two days in the guard room, at Wanganui, owing to a scrape he was in wben in charge of a gunboat in tbe attack on the Maories at Porirua Harbor in 1847-48. A fearful case of burning to death 'has occurred beyond Lucas Creek. Wm. John Peacock, a notorious drunkard, who had had Beveral hairbreadth escapes, got a bottle of rum at Riverhead yesterday, and after coming home drank the whole bottle between five and eight o'clock. He then went to bed, and asked a youth named Nesbitt, who resided with him. to give him a light for his pipe. After smoking some time he went out and relighted his pipe. Nesbitt, who went asleep, was soon wakened by a crackling sound, and saw tbe head of Pea* cock's bed in James. He could not awaken Peacock, nnd then tried to drag bim out, but beiog a heavy man be only got him as far as tbe door oi tbe partition. Soon after a powder flask under Peacock's bed exploded, and a gun on the wall went off, and Nesbitt was obliged to leave tli3 building to alarm a neighbor, but when both returned the root had fallen in and the body was burnt all but the trunk. It is supposed Peaeoke threw a match into the thatch when lighting his pip*. .