GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
[BT TXLROBAFH.—?RKBS ASSOOIAXION.I Wellinoton, Wednesday. It ii oitimated that the cost of increasing (he Soamee Island light) from the fifth to Uμ wcond order would be £3000,
A fire broke out at half-paib ten o'clock at Thompson's sawmill, BoaldOtt-streel. A timely alarm til given, end the brigade Wai able to donfilia the damage to the back part of the building. The machinery mostly escaped. The insurances are hot obtainable to-night Feildino, Wednesday. Communication by tail between I'eiWing and Wellington was resumed this morning. TitfAfeu, Wednesday! Alt (netting of ratepayers to-night, to consider a proposal to borrow £4000 from the Uovefritneni for drainage work!) about 80 people Were present. By a show of bands, the meeting approved of a poll being taken. Some opposition was shown to the proposal. . . -, ~| , DdnhuiHi Wednesday!.. At an inquest held at Morningtoh on the body of an illegitimate child named Broadfoot, one month old, the medical.evidence showed that the child had wasted away through getting improper food. ...;■.-. ■<■■■■ I ■ , Christohiiroh, .Wednesday., The adjourned .inquest on George Ward, who Wat found dead a few' days ago,.was hold to-night. •' The result of the analysis of the ttoraaoh allowed .ho. trace of poison, and a verdiob el "Death from f Asphyxia " WMretUßfld, ■ •"■"' v ,&ijo2.J.\f'»is
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10429, 29 April 1897, Page 5
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