TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 230, 26 August 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) i Invkrcargill, August 24. An inquest was held on the [tody of Louis Marisco, aged 12 years. The boy was on« of three brothers who j were larking at home on the Ist instant. He and his brother Frank had been calling their elder brother (Joseph) nickname*, and on his pursuing them into a bedroom, Frank picked up a piece of iron used as a poker to throw at Joseph, who saw the missile coming, and dodged it, with the result that it struck deceased on the side of his head, fracturing his skull and driving the bones into the brain. The jury found a verdict m accordance with the evidence. Frank Marisco has been arrested and partly examined on a charge of manslaughter. He does not deny throwing a poker, but says it was not intended for Louis. The father of the boys was an Italian fisherman here, but has been m the Seaoliff A«ylum for several years past. Christchurch, August 24. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received the following cablegram, dated London, August 22 : — " The s.s. Aorangi arrived today at the Cape of Good Hope." Fifty-five entries have been received for the Pluinpton Park Racing Club's Spring Meeting. New Plymouth, August 23. The temporary passenger carriage used at the Harbor works to convey persons from the steamer to where the conveyances are stationed tilled over this morning, throwing several of the passengers out on the hard concrete flor of the breakwater. Two ladies were injured. The other passengers were happily unhurt. Westport, August 24. Peter Eagan, an elderly man, has been missing for a week. It is supposed that he lay down on the sea beach to aleep, or walked into the sea and was drowned. David Evans, a collier, has been seriously injured by the fall of some stone m Westport mine. He is not expected to recover. Captain Williams has decided to suspend work m the Koranui mine for & couple of months, Auckland, August 23. An old identity, named Edmund Foley, aged 73, is dead. He was brother-in-law of the late Sir John O'Shannessy. August 24. A small riot took place last night, while a constable was arresting a drunken hoodlum near Opera House. A number of his sympathisers at. tempted a rescue. The police were reinforced, and after a long struggle m which half-a-dozen of the police got knocked about, and their uniforms torn, they succeeded m getting their prisoner to the station through the aid of respectable citizens, though surrounded by a howling mob, several hundred strong. Half-a-dozen arrests have been made, and more are to follow.