LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 29

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, April 28.

Mrs Crowe, a resident of OLahuhu, worn out, from nursing her sick child almost night and day, fainted and fell over tho fire, capsizing on herself a kettle lull ol boiling water. The poor woman is now in a critical condition from the scalding she received.

At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board, the chairman (Mr John Bullard) slated that there are 200 children in Auckland and suburbs who are being brought up prostitutes and thieves. Ho urged that these children be taken from their parents by the State, and put in a special home. The expenditure upon such a scheme, ho said, would he <£3ooo a year. OnitisTCiiuncii, April 28.

At a meeting of the Fire Brigades’ Demonstration Committee to-night, it was reported that the total receipts in connection with the recent demonstration wore ,£87l), and the expenditure, including <£2oo prize money, <£st)s, leaving a credit balance of .£2Bl, of which <£loo had been voted as a donation to the Brunner Relief Fund.

In the case of Daniel v. the Union Steam Ship Company, a claim of .£2OO damages for injuries sustained while working for the Railway Department, at Lyttelton, at discharging cargo from the s.s. Talune, Mr Beetham, S.M., this morning awarded the plaintiff <£lso, with costs .£2!) 12s. The Selwyn County Council li.tr granted Nelson Brothers a slaughterhouse license for their proposed freezing works at Ilornby, though the application was strongly opposed by a number of residents in the district.

At the Magistrate’s Court this morning James Alexander Robertson, who was arrested on a charge of incendiarism in connection with the Windsor lire, was charged with having assaulted his wife and threatened to shoot her. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, and ordered to find sureties of the peace for six months. Robertson was also charged with having wilfully set lire to buildings, the property of A. Duncan, and was committed for trial. Naiuer, April 28.

Two men named Alfred Petersen and Frederick Power have been arrested on a charge of robbery at Hastings. A coachman named Pruc, in the employ of Mr \\ . Nelson, was attacked and felled to the ground, and robbed of valuables and money. Ibo assailants stripped him of wearing apparel, and l’rue was found by' some Maori, who attended to him. Gisborne, April 28. The Government to-day purchased 400 acres of laud at Ormond for close settlement from Mr A. IS. Newman, the price paid being ,£2O per acre. Mr Hill, F.G.S., Napier, lias reported on the proposal for a water supply for Gisborne that, except within a limited area, prospects are not good for an artesian supply. Ho suggests that water be obtained from a creek about ten miles from town. Westrort, April 28.

The barque Coromandel will be towed to Wellington to-morrow for repairs, with her cargo of coal aboard. All the evidence at the enquiry so far proves that, with proper management, there was no reason why the barque should not have got out safely.