TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6689, 25 September 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(fbou odb own cohbkspondent)Lyttelton, September 23. No tidings have yet been heard of young Winter, who id rai sing, though search parties have been out on the Peninsula. (UNITED PBE33 ASSOCIATION.) TimaEU, September 24. At the inquest held on Alexander Mcßratnty, found dead at: Arowhenua on Kriday, a verdict was returned that be met his death by a gunshot wound, but whether inflicted accidentally or otherwise there was no evidence to show. Cheistcuorch, September 23. The lease for thirty years of two adjacent sections in the heart of Christchurch were sold by tf. Matson and Co. to-day.. One—a corner section, with twenty-eight feet frontage on Colombo street—fetched an annual rental of £22 5s per foot ; the other—fourteen feet frontage on Hereford street —an annual rental of £ls 10s per foot. The sections sold are a portion of what is known as Morten’s Block, and cover 1624 square feet: at the corner of C dombo and Herelord-atreets. The lease for the thirty yiars is equal to £25,200. Auckland, September 23. Madame Valentine has been committed tor trial on a charge of robbing a man named Collins in her establishment. Bail was allowed, £IOO herself, and two sureties of £SO each. Owing to the frequency of applications for leave of - absence and excuses for absence from duty t*n the pait of the city school teachers, the City School Committee have passed a resolution recommending the Board to curtail salary during such absence from duty. An elderly married woman, named Mary Kelly,, ha. died suddenly at Horse-shoe Bush. An inquest was held, and a verdict a returned of death from natural causes, OamaKU, September 24. A fire occurred in a three-roomed .house in Eden-street, on Saturday night, shortly before midnight. The house was occupied by a man named Alfred Bray. The neighbors were aroused by screams, and found Mrs Bray, who bad only been confined a week, rushing into the garden with her child in her arms, both enveloped iu flames. They succeeded in extinguishing the flames by means of wet sheets, but the child is uot expected to live.