NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9138, 21 August 1888, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

Christchukch, Monday. Frank Perrot, a farmer at Waikari, left his house yesterday morning to walk round his farm. He was apparently well at the time. He was found by two swaggers at? twelve o'clock lying against a wire fence dead, at a spot adjoining the North Road, £,nd about ten miles from his home.

An inquest was held this evening on the body of the man McDonald, who was found dead on Port Hills. A verdict of death from exposure was returned. No evidence was adduced to show how he came to be on the hills. He had lodged for three months at Beigh's boardinghouse, where he was believed to be a shepherd from Otago. It is stated that he was formerly in the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum.

Dunedin, Monday. A preliminary meeting was held this evening to consider the proposal of the Government to make a tunnel at the Purakanui Cliffs for the railway line. The genera' opinion was that the tunnel would be useless except to blind people to the danger, unlesi far more than £10,000 were spent on it. A sub-committee was appointed to consider the question of an alternative route, and to gather information to be submitted to s. subsequent public meeting. The premises of Mr. Drummond, draper, Greytown, have been burned down. Tht insurances are £150 in the New Zealand office.