NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7353, 13 June 1885, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondents.] THAMES, Friday. At the R.M. Court, the case James Haggot v. Waitoa Road Board was heard. The action was for allowing water to lodge on the plaintiff's land, while making a road. The Court rnled that it had no jurisdiction, tho proper remedy being a Court of Arbitration of two Justices of the Peace. Costs (£39) were allowed to defendant. TAURANGA, Friday. One thousand six hundred sheep passed through to-day from Napier for Mr. Alley* of Hikutaia. All were in good order, and not a single one has been lost since starting* [press association.] NAPIER, Friday, At the Supreme Court to-day the action, Carrick v. Donnelly, was tried before the Chief Judge without a jury. The cUim was for £300, on promissory notes given to the late Mr. John Sheehan, and by the latter endorsed to the plaintiff. Judgment was reserved. „. WANGANUI, Friday. ' Mr. Adolph Koho, jeweller, being about to leave for England, was last night presented by the officers of St. Andrew's Kilwinning Lodge with, an illuminated address and shield, containing photographs of the officers of the lodge. WELLINGTON, Friday. Harris, one of the men reported missing up at the Wairarapa Lake, has been discovered all right. There are no signs yet of Learden. As the result of the first week of Mr. Booth's temperance mission, 1300 bias rib* boas have been taken, and 700 pledges.

NELSON, Friday. On Thursday afternoon a man named Fassoly, about 50 years of age, a bricklayer by trade, fell down a cellar in the Prince Albert Hotel. He was removed to the Hospital, and died this morning, since when an inquest has been held. The deceased was talking to a boy in a private passage leading to the kitchen, and leant his back against a small door leading to the cellar, which gave way. He fell some six feet, striking his back so heavily that death resulted from concussion of the spine. He was sober at the time. A verdict was returned that deceased died from concussion of the spine by a misadventure.

BLENHEIM, Friday. An inquest concerning the fire in the billiard-room at the Kaituna Valley Hotel, was held at Havelock to-day, and resulted in a verdict that the premises were wilfully and feloniously set on fire by a person unknown, ASHBURTON, Friday.

A station employ 6, a man named Frank Jenkins, committed suicide at Mount Somen to-day. He was discovered quite da.nd, hanging to a tree.

CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A commission appointed by the North, Canterbury Board of Education has conducted an enquiry into certain charges brought by the Rangiora School Committee against; Mr. Goodive, head-master of the school. Drunkenness and general neglect of his work are alleged against the master. Voluminous evidence of a contradictory nature was taken. The committe's report will be submitted to the Board of Education at its next meeting.

DUNEDIN, Friday. George Payne, a ganger, was found in Lake Waihota this morning by the foreman of the night goods train. When he was picked up he was breathing, but; ha died a few minutes afterwards. It is known that Payn was subject to epileptic fits, and is supposed that he was seized with one while walking along the edge of the lake.