THIS DAYS TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 223, 20 September 1887, Page 2

TH IS DAY S TELEGRAMS.

Napier, Septcrnb r 20,

A settler nnmed Laws L-iurensn, of Ashley, Clinton, was found dead cm the Euutuniwha Plain?. When lost seen ho appeared to be un^er the influence of liquor, A policeman wbo interfered at a meeting last nighb acted against instructions. He had lately come from A-hburton.

Wellington, September 19. A boat accident occurred this afternoon. A laborer named Collins, accompanied by his wife and four children, was out sailing when one of the children shifted to the lee .side of the boat, causing a capsize. Collins and bio wife and one child got ashore safely, tho wife being much exhausted. A girl aged 10 was supposed to be drowned, but a number qf boats put off, and after some difficulty succeeded in picking up all the children.

Alfred Worsfall and Alfred Eobin, clerks m the Gear Meat Co.'s employ, bave been arrested on charges of alleged embezzlement, the former of £18 10s and £15 (ss, and the latter of 12s (id and Is 9d. They were brought before the Court and remanded. Bail was allowed.

Fkjldim; September 20. A shop and dwelling' house owned and occupied by Anderson, shoemaker at Halcombe, wa.s burned at midnight by the bursting of a kerosene lamp. Nothing wa.s saved.

DUNEDIN, September 2U,

By a fin: at Morningtun ihc dwelling of Hugh MoKerrow was burned clown. It, waa insured for ;C l 5O in the Slmdurd.

Masxkuton, Soptomber 20, A boyj 2h years old named Alex McLeod was accidentally drowned in a creek at Home Bush yesterday,