TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1904, 2 September 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦ (FKOM OUB OWK CORBESPONDKNT.) DONKDXN, 1 A young woman named Catherine Hostie was charged at the Police Court with attempting to commit suicide last night. It appears that as a man named Lindsay waa walking along the ocaan beech he saw Hostie throw herself into the surf. He rescued her, and handed bur over to the police. She, said Bhehad no friends or money, and intended to drown herself. She wag remanded till Tuesday. - „A; man • in a state of drunkeunes^ to the value of 18 guineas in -tlie'Vpttt^ of New Zealand, and a lamp glatßS#f the value of £5 at a neigeboring hotlhHe waa arrested and brought before the Magistrate, who reminded him for a week, as he was still suffering from tbe effects of drink. ] lolantbe is being performed witli I considerable success by the amateur operatic company: Amateur performances of the Pirates of Penzance and the Cloches de Corneville are on, the tapis. The walking match— Cotten v. Scott, terminated at 9.80 last night, when the former, Wing four laps behind gave up. The total distance travelled were. : Scott, 109 miles 11 laps, aiid Cotten, including the handicap, 10& "liles 7 laps. j The trustees of the benevolent instj* tution have authorised 1 heir chairman to take what steps hVmity think fit ro compel able bodied me.v in receipt of relief to work out assistance received at the rate of 4s per o*jiy : . J ; G&BYNOVTH, I At about a quarter to four tufa morning a large two storied building in Macka/'Street, used as a public reading room and library, with tbe lodge room of several masonic societies was discovered on fire which ap- • pareutly had broken out trader the J staircasp, the caretaker was away at the hospital seriously ill, and u<> one was on the premipeH, the fire brigade were unable to «ay« the building and bad to work hard to prevent the fire spreading to the store of Mr Campbell wine merchant. The whole of *he hooks of tbe library were paved, but uothiug'could be got from the masonic lodge room. Several rooms on the ground floor were used as offi/ces and tho contents were removed safely. Thie is the fifth time a tire has broken out in the sama building and it was generally believed to have been the work of an incendiary. Insurance, South British. £500 ; Equitable. Wellington, 1 It is intimated that there we 1200 children in the city who do not attend school. au3 there is no accommodation for them, more schools are badly wanted especially in th« Te A.ro dißdiict, but the board has no funds and it has appointed a committee to deal with the question and report at a further meeting, Wanganui 1 Henry Churton, one of the oldest residents here died this morning, He

I was founder of ' the •agjleKe , fo r tne Education of the Maoris, and aome years ago at the time of the war was instrumental in procuring from the •House of Common* * compensation j [for loses caused to '.«tktkei by the Maoriea. ;. ArOKLAND 1 Mr Soil, the Robinson Crusoe of Sunday island was in Auckland in the first half of 1887, ana 4 ' got the Janet Nieholl to go out of.hergspnrse on one of her island tripß to lanJlim at Sunday Island and ship sotnV (IP bales of wool which h« desired to bwve conveyed to Auckland. Owing to bad weather the Janet Nicol was mmblfto get the wool oft, and the Richmond the other day had a show at it, but also returned to Auckland, minus th^wool. Captain Fairchild, of the Stella, was more fortunate, and was suetsful in shipping the wooi.ifhich is conßgned to Messrs Donald and Edinborough. a '„ * ' ' Napier, 1 Awnlquest was hol3*^esterday on a station hand named Kt^g* who poisoned himself with la«riajg«ttys-'Mto&xfibth-ult he was paid otf jfora fencing job with a cheque for JBl 1. x There -was no jC^idence as to whatL'he 'wa3 doing in the mw&ntime, but last Saturday he tornei up in Kaikoura in a bad state of delirium tremens. Hr went to a store tfero he was wellknown, and went searching for himself among the patent medicines while the woman in the store was b'isy with another customer. He came to her and giving her a-Xl note told her to take Is 6d out of it, but would not tell her what for. She weut to see what he had taken, but missed nothing. Next day h^ called at the Patangata Hotel on his way back to the station, on ■ horse back, and next morning with a couple of nips inside, and* a bottle of brandy, with the cork loosened, in his saddle he started for the station. On the way. he met a larl who had been working for him, and made him go back to the hotel and fetch another bottle of brandy, saying he would go back for it if the lad did not fetch it. The boy went and gQt another bottle, and overtook King .hardly able to sit on his horse,' he having nearly* emptied the first bottle. -"SPhe boy got him home* and by 8 p.m, he had finished the second bottle, j Ho then got his co*t and fiopj & |K>c^et tfrok a phial of laudanum he hacl. token at the Kaikoura store, and doable 'the whole of the conteuts. TM« ||d and the • nmn who was staying. upt'ijh'tlvhhn tried to prevent him, I*t^,|^a.m,'4hi3..yiotini